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COMP 4602

Social Networking

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Introduction to virtual communities, overlay networks and social networking. Topics include architectural principles for heterogeneous social networking platforms, trust and reputation as social concepts, agent-based computing, and extraction of trends and patterns from information exchanged between community members.

2026

Topics

  • Relationships
  • Contexts, Ties
  • Braess Paradox
  • COMP 4602 / 5900C for Winter 2026
  • Social Networking
  • Matching Markets
  • Power Laws, Growing Networks
  • Small World
  • Epidemics
  • Cascades, Voting

Readings

  • Primary Textbook (downloadable at the link) D. Easley, J. Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Other Useful References (downloadable or available at MacOdrum library) M. Jackson, Social and Economic Networks, Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • M. Newman, Networks an Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • M. Newman, A.-L. Barabási, D. Watts, The Structure and Dynamics of Networks, Princeton University Press, 2006
  • D. Easley, J. Kleinberg, Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for COMP 3601 (no longer offered). Prerequisite(s): (( COMP 2404 or SYSC 3010 or SYSC 3110 ) and ( COMP 2406 or SYSC 4504 )) or COMP 2601 . Lectures/labs four hours per week.

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