Complex Network review notes

Here are my review notes of course Complex Network opened by Professor Frank Schweitze, Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, 2019 Spring.

These notes include important points based on lecture notes.

Content

Introduction to Networks: Basic and Advanced Metrics

• Motivation
• Introduction to Networks

Stochastic Models of Complex Networks

• Ensemble perspective
• Small-world networks
• Generating function
• Generating function applications
• Scale-Free Network and limitations of Ensemble Studies

Dynamic Processes on Complex Networks

• Random Walks and Diffusion
• Spectral properties

Generative Models and Statistical Inference

• Statistical Inference
• Model selection
• Exponential random graph model

Network Dynamics

• Growing network
• Time series data on networks

Other Resources

I also wrote a summary of difficult/important knowledge points of this course.