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Thursday, 5 January 2017

CS6010 SNA Syllabus



CS6010                                    SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS                L  T  P C  3  0  0  3                                                                                                                                                
OBJECTIVES: The student should be made to: 
 Understand the concept of semantic web and related applications.
 Learn knowledge representation using ontology. 
 Understand human behaviour in social web  and related communities 
Learn visualization of  social networks. 

UNIT I    INTRODUCTION                                                                                                                          9
Introduction to Semantic Web: Limitations of current Web - Development of Semantic Web - Emergence of the Social Web - Social Network analysis: Development of Social Network Analysis - Key concepts and measures in network analysis - Electronic sources for network analysis: Electronic discussion networks, Blogs and online communities - Web-based networks - Applications of Social Network Analysis.  
UNITII MODELLING, AGGREGATING AND KNOWLEDGE  REPRESENTATION                     9
Ontology and their role in the Semantic Web: Ontology-based knowledge Representation - Ontology languages for the Semantic Web: Resource Description Framework  - Web Ontology Language -  Modelling and aggregating social network data: State-of-the-art in network data representation -  Ontological representation of social individuals -  Ontological representation of social relationships -  Aggregating and reasoning with social network data - Advanced representations. 
UNIT III   EXTRACTION AND MINING COMMUNITIES IN WEB SOCIAL  NETWORKS          9
Extracting evolution of  Web Community from a Series of Web Archive - Detecting communities in social networks - Definition of community - Evaluating communities - Methods for community detection and  mining - Applications of community mining algorithms - Tools for detecting communities social network infrastructures and communities - Decentralized online social networks - Multi-Relational characterization of dynamic social network communities. 
UNIT IV   PREDICTING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND PRIVACY ISSUES                                            9 Understanding and predicting human behaviour for social communities - User data management -  Inference and Distribution - Enabling new human experiences - Reality mining - Context - Awareness - Privacy in online social networks - Trust in online environment - Trust models based on subjective logic - Trust network analysis - Trust transitivity analysis - Combining trust and reputation - Trust derivation based on trust comparisons - Attack spectrum and countermeasures.  
UNIT V VISUALIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS                                        9
Graph theory - Centrality - Clustering - Node-Edge Diagrams -  Matrix representation - Visualizing online social networks, Visualizing social networks with matrix-based representations - Matrix and  Node-Link Diagrams - Hybrid representations - Applications - Cover networks - Community welfare - Collaboration networks - Co-Citation networks.                            
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to: 
 Develop semantic web related applications. 
  Represent knowledge using ontology.
 Predict human behaviour in social web  and related communities. 
  Visualize social networks.  
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Peter Mika, “Social Networks and the Semantic Web”, , First Edition, Springer 2007.
2. Borko Furht, “Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications”, 1st Edition, Springer, 2010. 
REFERENCES:
1. Guandong Xu ,Yanchun Zhang and Lin Li, “Web Mining and Social Networking – Techniques and applications”, First Edition Springer, 2011.
2. Dion Goh and Schubert Foo, “Social information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively”, IGI Global Snippet, 2008.
3. Max Chevalier, Christine Julien and Chantal SoulĂ©-Dupuy, “Collaborative and Social Information Retrieval and Access: Techniques for Improved user Modelling”, IGI Global Snippet, 2009.
4. John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant and Stefan Decker, “The Social Semantic Web”, Springer, 2009.

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