MAE 298, Spring 2009
Advanced Topics in Network Theory
Class schedule

Date Leader Topic Readings Additional Refs
Mar 31 RD Intro and course logistics (Lecture 1, pdf)
Apr 2RD Intro to network theory, cont. (Lecture 2, pdf)
Apr 7Zachary Subsumption architecture and autonomous control (zs47.pdf) 1) Brooks.pdf; 2) Reynolds.pdf; (Optional Reif.pdf)
Apr 9Elizabeth Community structure: eigenvalue and maximum likelihood methods (leicht1.pdf)1) Newman2006; 2) Newman/Leicht2006; (Optional Girvan/Newman2002)
Apr 14Daniel Spatial distribution networks (dw414.pdf)1) Youn2008; 2) Gastner2006; (Optional Barthelemy2006.pdf)
Apr 16 RD out of town (No class)
Apr 21Shaxun Content Delivery Networks (sc421.pdf)1) Dilley.pdf; 2) Vakali.pdf; (Optional HotSpot.pdf)
Apr 23Ryan Phase transitions, directed percolation and algorithms (rj423.pdf)1) Parshani2009; 2) Monasson1999.pdfMezardScience2002.pdf
GomesScience2002.pdf
Mertens.pdf
Apr 28Ben Synchronization dynamics and pattern evolution on networks (bj428.pdf) 1) Arenas2006; 2) Zhou2005; (Optional Timme2006)Power laws in data
Apr 30David Self-organizing networks of agents (dk430.pdf),(dk430.tex -- beamer template)1) das2007.pdf; 2) chen2006.pdf
May 5George Anonymizing social networks (gc55.pdf),(gc55.tex -- beamer template)1) www07.pdf; 2) facebook1.pdf; (Optional hay2007.pdf)
May 7Rennie Network coding and self-organizing networks (ra57.pptx)1) protocols.pdf; 2) coding.pdf; (Optional infoFlow.pdf)
May 12Nicholas Transportation and land use networks (nl512.pdf) 1) Bettencourt2007.pdf; 2) Gastner2006 (arxiv version);

(Optional 1 Banavar1999.pdf; Optional2 Samaniego2008.pdf)

May 14Kevin Intelligent adaptation and cognitive networking (kl514.pdf)1) ComMag_2007.pdf; 2) Genetic.pdf; (Optional Arslan_2007.pdf)
May 19RD out of town
May 21Elizabeth Percolation and generating functions 1) NWS2001.pdf (Pages 1-6, through Sec II.D);
2) callaway2000_percolation.pdf
May 26Menglin Metarouting and policy-based routing theory (ml526.pdf)1) metarouting.pdf; 2) policyBasedRouting.pdf
May 28 RDModel selection and validation (rd528.pdf)1) Middendorf2005.pdf; 2) Alderson2005.pdf;
(Optional Filkov2009.pdf (pgs 4-6), Wang2008.pdf)
Jun 2 Simone Linz Phylogenetic trees and networks (sl62.pdf)BLSS07.pdf
Jun 4RDKuhn (Structure of Scientific Revolutions) and wrap up 1) Background
2) Dr. Pajares, Emory University, summary
3) Dr. Foster, U Wisc, summary