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)