Advanced Social Network Analysis and Security.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online or face-to-face). 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students in the College of Engineering or by permission of the instructor. The purpose of the course is to teach algorithms for analyzing social networks and complex systems. The focus will be on understanding the inner workings of algorithms using in-network analysis and security threats in online social network sites. Topic covered will include modeling social and technological networks, methods for analyzing structure and dynamical processes on the network, and security and privacy issues in online social networks such as inference attacks, network anonymization, sybil attacks and defense, social bots.