COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSE 5088 FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Computer Engineering Non-Thesis
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering (Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

This course aims to introduce the fundamentals of social network analysis, presents practical tools to be used in this process and discusses different case studies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define fundamental theory about graph theory related with SNA
2   Describe and build basic social networking Platforms
3   Use practical tools to collect, analyze, reduction and visualize network data
4   Design and implement an SNA project for a given domain

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basics of graph theory, Linear Algebra and Statistics
2 Network analysis & Social network analysis tools
3 Sequence Analysis and scalability
4 Collection, reduction and visualization of network data
5 Building Social Networking Platforms
6 Behavior Analysis and Influence Propagation in communities
7 Types of networks: Random Networks, Small World Networks, Scale Free Networks, etc
8 Static and dynamic networks: network evolution and link prediction
9 Personalized Search and Recommendation systems
10 Practical tutorials with some hands-on practice using a SNA tool
11 Overview of available software for Open Source Intelligence
12 Case Studies: Sentimental Analysis and web mining
13 Case Studies: Network application in politics and administration, Terror Networks
14 Case Studies: Health Informatics, Bioinformatics

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Alhajj Reda, Rokne Jon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, In 3 volume, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4614-6169-2.
2. Nasrullah Memon, Reda Alhajj, ''From Sociology to Computing in Social Networks - Theory, Foundations and Applications, Springer 2010.

Materials: Recent research papers published various journals or proceedings, available at online library.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr.Adil ALPKOÇAK
Dokuz Eylul University, Dept of Computer Engineering
Tinaztepe, 35160 Izmir, Turkey
232-3017408

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
0
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 4 60
Preparing assignments 4 10 40
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Reading 2 15 30
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 195

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.153
LO.2553
LO.35553
LO.455535555