Updates (reverse chronological order):

Dec 4: Class is over, final exam next week Dec 12 in room D127 at 9h15.

Nov 22: You can now download Homework 4 (last homework!), expected for Dec 4 at 13h15, just before class (in room D127 again). Enjoy your week in Paris !

Nov 20: Today's session will cover part of chapter 19 from the book by Easley and Kleinberg. You can download it at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch19.pdf Homework 4 is coming soon (probably available next Friday).

Nov 19: The deadline of Homework 3 has been delayed until Friday November 22. You can leave your answer in my box at GREThA (E324).

Nov 18: I would like to remind you the deadline for Homework 3, Wednesday Nov 20 at 13h15 just before our next meeting (again room D127).

Nov 12: You can now download the slides we will be using the coming weeks (maybe 2 sessions and a half, we will see) and Homework 3.

Nov 6: We have a deadline for Homework 2, Wednesday Nov 13 at 13h15 just before our next meeting (change of room D127). We will start with the block "Strategic Behavior in Networks". The first part of this block is based on chapter 4 from the book by Goyal (see syllabus for the full reference). As always, the book is a better reading than just the plain slides.

Nov 5: Tomorrow we will cover chapter 11 from the book by Easly and Kleinberg, that you can find here: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch11.pdf.

Oct 22: You can now download the slides for the next two weeks and Homework 2. Just click on slides or on homeworks on the navigation menu of the site. The deadline for homework 2 will be November 13 if everything continues as planned.

Oct 9: We have a deadline for your first homework, Thursday 23 at 13h14.

Next week we will start with the part of "Markets and Networks". We will cover chapter 10 from the book by Easly and Kleinberg that you can find here: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/networks-book-ch10.pdf

The slides are coming soon. I strongly advise you to read the book instead of my slides. Homework 2 is coming soon.

Oct 1: To do the second part of homework 1 I recommend you to use gephi. You can download it for free here https://gephi.org/ The gephi community has created nice tutorials that you can navigate here https://gephi.org/users/ but you can also find very nice videos on youtube. For example https://youtu.be/7LMnpM0p4cM https://youtu.be/HJ4Hcq3YX4k https://youtu.be/L0C_D68E1Q0 I personally like Lada Adamic (search her name on youtube). Gephi will be enough to do your homework, but if you prefer using other programs, like NodeXL for excel or some networks package for R (there seem to be a few), feel free to use them. There is probably something for Python too.

Sept 25: A new version of slides has been uploaded (v.2) where some typos were corrected (nothing serious). Today we have reached slide number 45, which means that you can do homework 1 (a), (b), (c) i, ii, iii, and iv. Next week we will take a look at the centrality measures.

Sept 18: Welcome to the course. You can download the first set of slides. Just click on Slides on the menu at the left of this page. For this first part of the course, you should be reading the first three chapter of the book by Jackson and the first three chapters of the book by Easly and Kleinberg (see syllabus for more information). I strongly recommend you to start looking at the homework, the due date is still in four weeks but you will be able to solve a few exercises at a time each week. This first week lecture allows you to do Exercise 1, parts (a) and (b). You can also start taking a look at gephi and the files for exercise 2. Please follow Homeworks on the menu at the left of this page.