[DMANET] Call for abstracts: International Conference on Computational Social Science

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

International Conference on Computational Social Science
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015

WEBSITE

http://www.iccss2015.eu/

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 November 2014
Opening of registration: 15 January 2015
Conference dates: 8-11 June 2015

EVENT OVERVIEW

The conference will bring together scientists from different areas to meet and discuss problems on social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Karen Cook (Stanford)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto)
Michael Macy (Cornell)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Lada Adamic (Facebook)
Sinan Aral (MIT)
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi * (Northeastern University and CEU)
Nicholas Christakis (Yale)
Robin Dunbar (Oxford)
Andreas Flache (University of Groeningen)
Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich)
Matthew Jackson (Stanford)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford)
Sandy Pentland (MIT)
Alessandro Vespignani (Northeastern University)
Duncan Watts (Microsoft)

* to be confirmed

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Santo Fortunato (Aalto),
Aristides Gionis (Aalto),
Heikki Hämmäinen (Aalto),
Kimmo Kaski (Aalto),
Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca),
Jari Saramäki (Aalto),
Juuso Valimäki (Aalto)

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to)

Social networks
Social contagion
Communication dynamics
Information diffusion and other spreading phenomena
Social influence
Crowd-sourcing
Popularity dynamics
Smart cities
Attention economics
Social design and user behavior
Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis
Human mobility
Mobility and context-awareness
Economics of trust

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Contributions to the conference have to be submitted via Easychair (www.easychair.org), the name of the event there is IC2S2. Each submission consists of an extended abstract of max 2 pages (A4). Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work, otherwise it will be difficult for the PC to assess its relevance.
Each extended abstract will be reviewed by two PC members. Abstracts can be submitted from September the 15th till November 15th, 2014. We will do out best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, since we cannot estimate the number of submissions, in case they turn out to be more than expected, we do not exclude having a poster session.

CONTACT

For any question you might have please contact Prof. Santo Fortunato (santo.fortunato@aalto.fi)


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