Mathematical Modeling and Complex Networks

Course Code
μαθ-μον-πολ
ECTS Credits
5
Semester
7th Semester
Course Category

Specialization courses

Specialization courses

Specialization
Specialization elective courses on Informatics and Telecommunications
Course Description
COURSE CONTENTS

Course contents: Introduction to the theory of complexity, critical phenomena, percolation, fractals. Complex networks, network evolution models, correlations, communities and modularity, clusters, centrality, self-similarities. Dynamical process in complex systems, information spreading, epidemics, evolutionary processes in complex networks. Study of the Internet (physical layer), Web, social and economic networks, biological networks, discrete geometries. 

ASSESSMENT

Assessment: Five sets of homework with total weight 40% and 3 hours written exams with weight 60%.The relevant weights can be changed (+/-10%).