Readings

• required: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. ISBN: 0-521-86571-9
• optional: Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms by Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth, Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-84906-1
• required: The structure and function of complex networks
• papers from SIGIR, WWW, and other venues to be assigned in class