[ecrea] Call for 3rd Computational Social Science Winter Symposium

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FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30

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3rd GESIS COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

Cologne, Germany

Symposium dates: NOV 30 - DEC 01, 2016

Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/ 
<http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/>

Hashtag: #cssws16

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CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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We are delighted to announce that the following keynote speakers will be 
giving a talk at this years' CSS Winter Symposium:

Noshir CONTRACTOR (Northwestern University), Tina ELIASSI-RAD 
(Northeastern University), Krishna GUMMADI (Max Planck Institute for 
Software Systems), Petter HOLME (Sungkyunkwan University), Helen 
MARGETTS (University of Oxford)

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ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

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The GESIS CSS Winter Symposium 2016 will be a two-day event consisting of:

* an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will 
provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of 
computational social science

* an open call for contributed posters and short presentations that will 
provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and 
discuss their own work

* plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an 
informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets

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IMPORTANT DATES

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September30 2016: submissions due

October 18 2016: notifications

November 14 2016: registration deadline

Nov 30 - Dec 01 2016: symposium days

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SUBMISSIONS FOR POSTERS + SHORT PRESENTATIONS

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We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and 
methods for computational social science.

Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to:

- Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, 
networks, communities and teams

- Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and 
information on the web

- Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, 
prejudice via new kinds of data

- Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet

- Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban 
planning

- Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods)

- Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational 
data on the Web

- Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online

- Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze 
social data on the Web

- Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the 
social sciences

Other related topics are explicitly welcome.

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PRESENTATION FORMATS

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Based on the submitted abstracts, submissions may be accepted as posters 
and/or short presentations. The standard format will be a poster 
presentation. As this is a single track conference, only few submissions 
can be selected for short plenary presentations of approx. 10-15 minutes.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) 
summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also 
submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit 
work-in-progress. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there 
are no proceedings. We may however discuss options for publishing 
selected submissions after the conference (e.g. as a journal special 
issue or edited collection).

Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the 
potential to stimulate interesting discussions.

Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair 
submission system for the event: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws16

The full call for submissions can also be found at: 
http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/call/

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ORGANIZATION AND VENUE

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The GESIS CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, 
at KOMED Im MediaPark 7.

We aim to keep registration costs as low as possible (approx. around 70 
EUR). More information will be made available soon.

Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance. PLEASE 
NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa 
related issues.

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CONTACT

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS:

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Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-mail: (markus.strohmaier /at/ gesis.org) <mailto:(markus.strohmaier /at/ gesis.org)>

Dr. Katrin Weller

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-mail: (katrin.weller /at/ gesis.org) <mailto:(katrin.weller /at/ gesis.org)>

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

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Diana Lindner, M.A.

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-mail: (diana.lindner /at/ gesis.org) <mailto:(diana.lindner /at/ gesis.org)>