| Date | Lecture No. | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 25/02 | Elezioni
politiche. Lezione annullata. |
|
| 27/02 | 1 |
Course organization and contents. Motivation.
What are complex systems? (Flake chap. 1)
|
| 28/02 | 2 |
Non-linear dynamics, chaos, bifurcations and Feigenbaum constant (Flake chap. 10)
|
| 04/03 | 3 |
Predictability, randomness and chaos (Flake chap. 14)
|
| 06/03 | 4 |
Autonomous agents. Sorting, segregation and peer effects (Flake chap. 16)
|
| 07/03 | 5 |
Complex systems, Cellular Automata. Wolfram's classification, game of life (Flake chap. 15)
|
| 11/03 | 6 | Cooperation and Competition. Game theory, Nash Equilibrium (EK chap. 6) |
| 13/03 | 7 | Mixed strategy games (EK chap. 6) |
| 14/03 | 8 | Adaptation, Genetic algorithms (Flake chap. 20) |
| 18/03 | Lauree | |
| 20/03 | Lauree | |
| 21/03 | Lauree | |
| 25/03 | 9 | Evolutionary Game Theory, Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma (EK chap. 7, Flake chap. 17) |
| 27/03 | 10 | Simulating overlay networks with PeerSim (PeerSim tutorials) |
| 28/03 | Pasqua | |
| 01/04 | Pasqua | |
| 03/04 | 11 | Peer-to-peer systems and overlay networks (van Steen chap. 8) |
| 04/04 | 12 |
Structured overlays, Key-based routing,
Chord (van Steen chap. 8.2)
|
| 08/04 | 13 |
Complex Networks: basic
definitions and concepts (EK chap. 1, 2)
|
| 10/04 | 14 |
Description of programming project
|
| 11/04 | 15 |
Random Graphs: diameter, connectivity,
clustering (Albert-Barabasi paper)
|
| 15/04 | 16 |
Small-world phenomenon, power laws of graphs
(EK chap. 18, 20)
|
| 17/04 | 17 |
Generating Random Graphs with Newscast and
Cyclon (Cyclon paper)
|
| 18/04 | 18 |
Gossiping and epidemic algorithms (EK chap. 21)
|
| 22/04 | 19 |
Cascading behavior, diffusion (EK chap. 19)
|
| 24/04 | 20 |
Student presentations
|
| 25/04 | 25 Aprile |
|
| 29/04 | Ponte | |
| 01/05 | Primo Maggio |
|
| 02/05 | 21 |
Student presentations
|
| 06/05 | 22 |
Student presentations
|
| 08/05 | 23 |
Student presentations
|
| 09/05 | 24 |
Student presentations
|
| 13/05 | 25 |
Discussion of project
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