Dynamics of large networks. PhD thesis.

Thesis:

Dynamics of Large Networks Jure Leskovec. PhD Thesis. September 2008. [PDF] [Slides]
Video of the thesis defense

Thesis proposal:

Dynamics of Real-world Networks Jure Leskovec. Thesis proposal. May 2007. [PDF] [Slides]
Video of thesis proposal talk

Relevant publications:

• Graph Evolution: Densification and Shrinking Diameters
  Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg, Christos Faloutsos.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD), 1(1), 2007.
• Realistic, Mathematically Tractable Graph Generation and Evolution, Using Kronecker Multiplication
  Jure Leskovec, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Jon Kleinberg, Christos Faloutsos.
  European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2005.
• Scalable Modeling of Real Graphs using Kronecker Multiplication
  Jure Leskovec, Christos Faloutsos.
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2007.
• The Dynamics of Viral Marketing
  Jure Leskovec, Lada Adamic, Bernardo Huberman.
  ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), 1(1), 2007.
• Patterns of Influence in a Recommendation Network
  Jure Leskovec, Ajit Singh, Jon Kleinberg.
  Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2006.
• Cascading Behavior in Large Blog Graphs
  Jure Leskovec, Mary McGlohon, Christos Faloutsos, Natalie Glance, Matthew Hurst.
  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2007.
• Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks
  Jure Leskovec, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Christos Faloutsos, Jeanne VanBriesen, Natalie Glance.
  KDD 2007.