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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Physics |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| EX 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Mandatory extra work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take PH10008 |
| Description:
| Aims: The aim of this unit is to explain the basic properties of networks and how they are measured, and to illustrate contemporary uses of networks in various disciplines. Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit the student should be able to: * describe uses of networks in at least 2 different areas of science and technology; * define, quantify and interpret some simple measures of network structure; * explain methods for calculating more complex measures of network structure; * outline the key features of some simple network models, both static and dynamic. Skills: Numeracy T/F A, Problem Solving T/F A. Content: Empirical examples of networks; technological, social, information, biological. Network analysis; elementary graph theory, terminology and definitions, local and global measures of network structure. Network models; Erdös-Rényi random graph; exponential random graphs, small-worlds, scale-free networks. Processes on networks; flow networks, site percolation, epidemics on scale-free networks, synchronisation. |
| Programme availability: |
PH30098 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Physics
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