Game theory has been applied to many abstract networks in the course, from trading networks to social networks. One example that merits further investigation is a wireless ad hoc network.
Wireless ad hoc networks can easily be understood with the concepts presented in this class. Computers are nodes in the network and wireless radio links are […]

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The article from USA Today Web sites host wealth of crime-solving clues goes into detail about how web services such as Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, and You Tube are being used to investigate and identify criminals.  It starts by discussing a specific case where a family posted video evidence of a family member’s murderer fleeing the […]

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World of Warcraft (WoW for short) is the world’s leading MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game), captivating over 6 million people around the world.  While many would brush aside WoW or any other online game as a gross waste of time that drags people away from real life friendships and relationships, Nicholas Yee and […]

The picture of the web as a network is simple and intuitive. Indeed, you’ll find many useful applications where a simple model of the web is sufficient to obtain useful results. Just look at Google: internally it models the web just as we have described it in class. Yet Google achieves its success by using […]

In a recent NY Times article, Social Networking’s Next Phase, the future of online social networking is discussed. It seems that the online social networking craze will be headed in a different direction, according to sources such as Cisco and the co-creator of Netscape. Because Facebook and MySpace are immensely popular networks, many […]

    Wired News copy chief Tony Long recently posted an interesting article entitled Parking Goes to  Highest Bidder.  The article deals with a startup company in Cambridge, Mass.  named SpotScout.  SpotScout aims to hire a group of “spot scouts” to keep a sort of inventory of local parking garages.  Price and availability information on participating […]

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Swicki is a search engine which strives to provide customized results that are more relevant than a general search on a regular search engine.  This is done by creating a Swicki, a customized directory with preferences that are specified by the creator.  A directory is initialized by filling out a survey of preferences, thereafter, search […]

Over the past decade, the number of blogs on the internet, and the connections between those blogs, have been growing at an enormous rate. There are blogs that discuss technology, blogs that discuss personal lives, and numerous blogs that discuss politics and news. In Issue Publics on the Web: Applying Network Theory to the War […]

Websites As Graphs
This site provides a way of visually modeling the HTML tags throughout a website. The nodes are color coded to represent different types of tags - links, images, DIV, line breaks, etc. The model is created via a Java applet, which lets you watch the graph as it’s created. The nodes and edges […]

Internet traffic is as succeptible to Braess’ paradox as is vehicle traffic. Kagan Tumer and David H. Wolpert at NASA Ames Research Center present an improvement to greedy internet traffic routing algorithms in their paper “Avoiding Braess’ Paradox through Collective Intelligence”.
We have talked about how imposing rules from outside the system can help improve […]