• 06/17/2009:
  Presentation by Carol, based on Bettencourt LMA et al (2007) Growth, innovation, scaling and the pace of life in cities. PNAS, 104(17): 7301–7306.Presentation growth_innovation_scaling_and_the_pace_of_life_in_cities.ppt
• 06/03/2009:
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #7a and #7b
  Supplementary material:
  • Newman MEJ (2001).The structure of scientific collaboration networks. PNAS, 98(2): 404-409.

• 05/27/2009 (at 4 pm):
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #6
  Supplementary material:
  • Faloutsos M, Faloutsos P, & Faloutsos C (1999).On power-law relationships of the Internet topology. Computer Communication Review, vol. 29, pp. 251-262.
  • Barabási AL & Bonabeau E (2003). Scale-Free Networks. Scientific American 288: 50-59.
  • Barabási AL & Albert R (1999). Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science, 286: 509-512.
  • Ebel H, Mielsch LI & Bornholdt S (2002). Scale-free topology of e-mail networks. Physical Review E, vol. 66, Number 035103.

• 05/20/2009 (at 4 pm):
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #5
  Supplementary material:
  • Albert R, Jeong H and Barabasi AL (2000) Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature, 406: 378-382.

Fragmentation of the networks under random failures and attacks. Here f is the fraction of removed nodes and f_c is the critical fraction which the network breaks into small fragments.

• Albert R, Jeong H and Barabasi AL (2001) (Correction) Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature, 409: 194-195.
• Crucitti P, Latora V, Marchiori M and Rapisarda A (2004) Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Physica A, 340: 388-394.
• Tu Y (2000) How robust is the Internet?. Nature, 406: 352-354.

• 05/13/2009 (at 4 pm):
  Welcome to Isabel e Silvana: Introduction to complex networks with the lecture Complex Networks and Applications

• 05/08/2009 (at 1 pm):
  For this meeting we will discuss the end of Class Note #4

• 05/07/2009:
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #4
  Supplementary material:
  • Watts DJ and Strogatz SH (1998) Collective dynamics of small-world networks. Nature, 393: 440-442.
  • Kleinberg J (2000) The small-world phenomenon: an algorithmic perspective. Proc. 32nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing.
  • Understanding the clustering coefficient

• 04/17/2009 (at 2 pm):
  Presentation by Carol, based on: M. Huisman and M. A. J. Van Duijn (2005) Software for Social Network Analysis
• 04/16/2009 (at 2 pm):
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio, the end of Class Note #3, welcome to Fred and directions
• 04/01/2009:
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #3

• 03/25/2009:
  For this meeting we will discuss the class notes from Prof. Vírgilio Class Note #1 and #2
  Supplementary material:
  • Watts, D. J. (2007) A twenty-first century science. Nature, v. 445
  • Newman, M. E. J. The structure and function of complex networks
• 03/24/2009:
  Discuss directions