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Readings:

GuimerĂ  R, B Uzzi, J Spiro, and LA Amaral. "Team Assembly Mechanisms Determine Collaboration Network Structure and Team Performance." Science (New York, N.Y.). 308. 5722 (2005): 697-702.
Backstrom, L., Huttenlocher, D., Kleinberg, J., and Lan, X. Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 20 - 23, 2006). KDD '06.
Leskovec, J., Kleinberg, J., and Faloutsos, C. 2005. Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations. In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD international Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining (Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 21 - 24, 2005). KDD '05.
Golder, S. A., and B. A. Huberman. "Usage Patterns of Collaborative Tagging Systems." Journal of Information Science. 32. 2 (2006): 198-208. (Sage Journals subscription required for article)

optional: Lambiotte, R., and M. Ausloos. "Collaborative Tagging As a Tripartite Network." Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3993 (2006): 1114-1118.
optional: Cattuto C, V Loreto, and L Pietronero. "Semiotic Dynamics and Collaborative Tagging." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104. 5 (2007): 1461-4.

Resources:

Lecture

Networks over time PowerPoint Download PDF Download (.ppt, .pdf)

Lab

Tagging networks PowerPoint Download PDF Download (.ppt, .pdf)
lab10instructions PDF Download (.pdf)
ischool GUESS file (.gdf)
schooltag Pajek file (.net)
userschool Pajek file (.net)
usertag Pajek file (.net)

Assignment

Problem Set 8 Doc Download PDF Download (.doc, .pdf)
words Pajek file (.net)

Demonstration:

Network games