Section outline

  • Have you enjoyed the SNA course so much that you are considering a thesis on related subjects? Great!

    Here a few ideas we would like to work on... of course you can also propose something new and completely different!

    • NDlib: diffusion model comparison framework
    • NDlib: modeling competing diffusion processes
    • NDlib: definition of novel diffusion models tailored for specific scenarios (e.g., fake news, opinion dynamics...)
    • COVID19 modelling

    • CDlib: comparative analysis of Community Discovery algorithms
    • CDlib: definition of novel community discovery approaches for dynamic/multiplex networks
    • CDlib-viz: a visual framework for the analysis of community partitions 

    • XAI: Explaining Community Discovery Algorithms
    • DyNetX: a library for modeling and studying dynamic network topologies
    • Graph Embedding: representing (static|dynamic) networks in low dimensional space to support prediction and clustering
    • High Order Networks: studying and modeling high-order temporal networks

    • Country-wide Agent-Based simulation systems
    • Network Medicine applications
    • Semantic Network Analysis
    • Scholarly Data Analysis
    • Migration through the lenses of Social Media Platform
    • Fake News, Echo Chambers, Polarization
    • ...


    A thesis can focus either on the definition of a new model/algorithm or on the usage of complex network analysis methodologies as tools for studying specific phenomena.

    Contact Dino Pedreschi and Giulio Rossetti for more details.