Unit name | Dynamics of Networks |
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Unit code | EMATM0008 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Gross |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
EMAT10100 Engineering Mathematics 1 or equivalent |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
This unit will provide students with a basic working knowledge of network theory and introduces them to state-of-the-art techniques for applying the tools of nonlinear dynamics to high-dimensional "networked" systems. The importance and usefulness of the techniques will be illustrated on a wide range of application areas: swarming robots, disease propagation, ecological food webs, web search, peer to peer networks, social networks (e.g. Facebook), multi-hop wireless communication, and attack resilience of infrastructure networks, for example.
Aims: Enabling students to use a range of mathematical tools for the formulation and analysis of network dynamics models.
On successful completion of the unit the student will have
Lectures
A 2 hour written exam (all learning outcomes)
Sergey Dorogovtsev, Lectures on complex networks, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199548934
Mark Newman, Networks: An Introduction, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199206650