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Social Computing

The document outlines a proposal for a new elective subject titled 'Computational Social Science' in the CS department, set to be offered in the Autumn semester of 2014-2015. It includes details on the course structure, objectives, prerequisites, and recommended textbooks. Faculty members willing to teach the subject are also listed, and it is noted that there is no overlap with existing subjects.

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Social Computing

The document outlines a proposal for a new elective subject titled 'Computational Social Science' in the CS department, set to be offered in the Autumn semester of 2014-2015. It includes details on the course structure, objectives, prerequisites, and recommended textbooks. Faculty members willing to teach the subject are also listed, and it is noted that there is no overlap with existing subjects.

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Please

 select  the  committee  for  Approval    


1.Name  of  the  Dept:   CS  
 
2.Name  of  the  Subject:   Computational  Social  Science  
 
3.LTP  and  Credit:    
L:   3   T:   0   P:   0   Credit:  3  
 
4.Status  of  the  subject:  
a)  Specify  the  Session,Semester  ,from  which  the  subject  is  going  to  be  offered    
2014-­‐2015  (Autumn)  
b)Please  Specify  the  Level  of  the  Subject:  6    
c)  Whether  the  subject  will  be  offered  as  compulsory  or  elective:  Elective  
d)  The  semester  in  which  the  subject  will  be  offered:  Autumn    
e)  Name(s)  of  the  Programme(s)  in  whose  curricula  this  subject  will  be  included:
   BTech  3rd  year,  BTech  
4th  year,  Dual  Degree,  MTech  1st  year,  PhD  
 
5.Prerequisite(s)  for  the  subject,  if  any  
(Please  give  the  subject  numbers  and  names):  None  
 
6.Objective  and  Contents:  
a)  Objective:  Promote  research  and  education  in  social  computing  which  is  one  
of  the  most  popular  curricula  of  current  across  the  globe.  An  additional  objective  
would  be  to  formulate  the  "Table  of  Contents"  for  a  textbook  on  "Algorithms  for  
Social  Computing"  which  is  not  yet  available.  
b)  Contents  
Introductory  lecture  (1)  
 
Online  Social  Networks  (OSN)  (10)  
   1)   Introduction-­‐Types   of   social   networks   (e.g.,   Twitter,   Facebook),  
Measurement  and  Collection  of  Social  Network  Data  (2)  
   2)  Techniqes  to  study  different  aspects  of  OSNs  -­‐-­‐  Follower-­‐followee  dynamics,  
link   farming,   spam   detection,   hashtag   popularatiy   and   prediction,   linguistic  
styles  of  tweets  (4)  
   3)  Human  Centered  Computing  -­‐  Classes  of  human-­‐centered  computation,  
   Methods  of  human-­‐centered  computation,  Incentives  for  participation,  
   computer   supported   co-­‐opeartive   work,   computer   supported   collaborative  
learning  (3)  
4)  Crowdsourcing  as  a  Model  for  Problem  Solving,  ESP  Game  (1)  
 
Models  of  Opinion  Formation  (11)  
   1)  Introduction  (1)  
   2)  Opinion  Dynamics  -­‐  Continuous  and  Discrete  Models  (3)  
   3)  Cultural,  Language  Dynamics  -­‐  Axelrod  Model  and  its  variant,  The  Naming  
game,  The  Category  Game  (4)    
   4)  Crowd  Behavior-­‐  Flocking,  Pedestrian  behavior,  Applause  Dynamics  and  
Mexican  Wave  (1)  
   5)  Formation  of  Hierarchies  -­‐  The  Bonabeau  Model,  The  advancement-­‐decline  
Model  (1)  
   6)  Social  spreading  Phenomena-­‐  rumor  spreading,  gossip  spreading  (1)  
 
Fundamentals  of  Social  Data  Analytics  (10)  
1)  Introduction  -­‐  Working  with  Social  Media  Data  (2)  
2)  Topic  Models  (2)    
3)  Modeling  social  interactions  on  the  Web  (2)  
4)  Random  Walks  (2)  
5)  Variants  of  random  walk  (k-­‐random  walk  for  social  network  analysis)  (2)  
 
Applied  Social  Data  Analytics  (11)  
1)  Application  of  Topic  models  (1)  
2)  Opinions  and  Sentiments  -­‐  Mining,  Analysis  and  Summarization  (3)  
3)  Recommendation  Systems  (2)  
4)  Language  dynamics  and  influence  in  online  communities  (2)  
5)  Community  identification,  link  prediction  and  topical  search  in  social  
networks  (2)  
6)  Psychometric  analysis  (1)  
 
(in  100  to  150  words):    
7.Names  of  the  faculty  memebers  of  the  Department/Centers/School  who  have  
the  neccessary  expertise  and  will  be  the  willing  to  teach  the  subject  (Minimum  
two  faculty  members  should  be  willing  to  teach  the  subject)    Pawan  Goyal,  
Animesh  Mukherjee,  Niloy  Ganguly,  Sourangshu  Bhattacharyya,  Bivas  Mitra,  
Anupam  Basu.  
 
8.Do  the  contents  of  the  subject  have  an  overlap  with  any  other  subject  offered  in  
the  Institute?  
If  yes,  please  check  and  give  details  as  follows    
a)Subject  Name:    datalist  
b)  Approximate  percentage  of  overlap:    
c)  Reasons  for  offering  the  new  subject  in  spite  of  the  overlap:    
 
9.Recommended  Text  Books/References  Books  
a)  Theory  (Text  Books):  
1.  Robert  Hanneman  and  Mark  Riddle.    Introduction  to  social  network  
methods.  (2005)  
2.  Mitchel  Resnick,  "Turtles,  Termites,  and  Traffic  Jams:  Explorations  
in  Massively  Parallel  Microworlds",  MIT  Press,  1994.  
3.  Joshua  M.  Epstein,  "Growing  Artificial  Societies:  Social  Science  
from  the  Bottom  Up",  Brookings  Institution  Press,  1996.  
4.  Jennifer  Golbeck,  "Analyzing  the  social  web",  Morgan  Kaufmann,  2013.  
   
b)  References  (Literature):    
1.  Claudio  Castellano,  Santo  Fortunato,  and  Vittorio  Loreto,  "Statistical  
physics  of  social  dynamics",  Rev.  Mod.  Phys.  81,  591,  11  May  2009.  
2.  S.  Fortunato  and  C.  Castellano,  "Word  of  mouth  and  universal  voting  
behaviour  in  proportional  elections"  Phys.  Rev.  Lett.  99,  (2007).  
3.  Douglas  D.  Heckathorn,  "The  Dynamics  and  Dilemmas  of  Collective  
Action",  American  Sociological  Review  (1996).  
4.  Michael  W.  Macy  and  Robert  Willer,  "From  factors  to  actors:  Computational  
Sociology  and  Agent-­‐Based  Modeling,"  Annual  Review  of  Sociology  
Vol.  28:  143-­‐166  (2002).  
 
10.Names  of  Departments/Centers/Schools/Programmes  whose  students  are  
expected  to  resgiter  for  this  subject:  CSE,  SIT,  MATHEMATICS  (CSDP)  
 
 

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