University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CNT 6805 -- Network Science and Applications

Suggested Topics for Projects

• Network sampling problems:
  • Study the relationship among the number of sensors needed, deployment positions of sensors, accuracy of event position estimation, and event detection probability.
  • Study how to deploy acoustic sensors so that the probability of detecting vehicles/tanks is maximized.
  • Study how to deploy acoustic sensors so that the probability of detecting gunshots is maximized.
  • Study how to deploy smoke sensors so that the probability of detecting fire is maximized.
  • Study how to deploy traffic monitors so that the probability of detecting the locations of anomalies in communication networks is maximized.
  • Study how to deploy video cameras and microphones so that the probability of detecting terrorist activities is maximized.
• Graph learning problems:
  • Identify the topology of a gene regulatory network, given micro-array data.
  • Identify the topology of a social network, given telephone records of a community, or messages in Internet chat-rooms.
  • Identify the topology of a semantic network of words/phrases, given text documents.
  • Identify the topology of a brain network/connectome, given fMRI or Brainbow images.
• Identification of Network Dynamics/Behaviors
  • Identify the dynamics of stock prices and causal relationship among the stock prices.
  • Identify the dynamics of a brain network
• Application domains:
  • Physical or engineered networks (e.g., power grid, and transportation network)
  • Information networks (e.g., Internet)
  • Biological networks (e.g., brain network, gene regulatory network, neural network)
  • Logical/semantic networks (e.g., concept/topic networks)
  • Economic networks (e.g., stock market)
  • Social networks
  • Hybrid (e.g., information network & social network)
• Other topics (you are encouraged to be creative!)