Social Network Simulator

This page contains links to the scripts and simulation examples developed by Stefano Costanzo as part of the Master Thesis "Progettazione di un sistema di simulazione per reti sociali (Design of a social network simulator)". The thesis supervisors are Paolo Milazzo and Giovanna Broccia.

The simulation system analyzes networks whose structure is obtained from Twitter data.

  • Thesis
    The Thesis of Stefano Costanzo describing the design of the simulator and some case studies
  • Python scripts
    Python scripts for downloading twitter data, identification of user categories and network reconstruction.
  • Java Simulator
    Source code of the social network simulator (in Java).
  • Case studies
    Source code of the test cases considered in the thesis.