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[ecrea] CfP: IC2S2 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science
Tue Feb 21 20:57:54 GMT 2017
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IC2S2 2017 – 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
July 10-13, 2017
Cologne, Germany
Web: https://ic2s2.org/2017/
Twitter: #IC2S2 / @IC2S2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859606284258118/
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CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (more to be announced)
Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz)
Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation)
Emily Falk (University of Pennsylvania)
Justin Grimmer (Stanford University)
Jeff Hancock (Stanford University
Ágnes Horvát (Northwestern University)
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
María Pereda (Charles III University of Madrid)
Daniel Romero (University of Michigan)
Matt Taddy (Microsoft Research)
Milena Tsvetkova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Dashun Wang (Northwestern University)
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This international conference (now in its third edition) aims to bring
together scientists from different disciplines and research areas to
meet and discuss computational problems in the study of 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 or
computational models The goal of the conference is to create a broad and
interdisciplinary community of researchers, including academics, tech
industry workers, open data activists, government agency workers, and
think tank analysts, who are committed to advancing social science
knowledge through computational methods.
In addition to keynote speakers and paper sessions, the conference will
also include a series of training opportunities and tutorials. Please
see the call for tutorials below.
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SUBMIT YOUR RESEARCH! (ABSTRACTS)
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We welcome submissions on any topic in the intersection of the social
sciences and the computer sciences, including (a) new approaches for
understanding social phenomena, (b) improving methods for computational
social science, (c) and improving conditions for computational social
science research. But we are especially interested in:
• Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making
• Text analysis and natural language processing of social phenomena
• Network analysis of social systems
• Large-scale social experiments and/or phenomena
• Causal inference and computational methods for social science
• Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability
• Building and evaluating socio-technical systems
• Novel digital data and/or computational analyses for addressing
societal challenges
• Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational
social data
• Methodological integration and triangulation of social data
• Social news curation and collaborative filtering
• Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication
dynamics
• Ethics of computational research on human behavior
• Reproducibility in computational social science research
• Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in
computational social science
• Computational social science research in industry
• Science and technology studies approaches to computational science work
• Practical problems in computational social science
• Issues of inclusivity in computational social science
• All other topics in computational social science
Researchers across disciplines, faculty, graduate students, industry
researchers, policy makers, and non-profit workers are all encouraged to
submit computational data-driven research and innovative computational
methodological or theoretical contributions on social phenomena for
consideration.
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IMPORTANT DATES (PAPERS)
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Deadline for abstract submission: 01 March 2017 (23:59 Hawaii time)
Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2017
Conference dates: 10-13 July 2016
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (PAPERS)
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Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s22017
The submission should include a title, a list of 5 keywords, and an
extended abstract (= main text of the submission) with at least one
figure, formatted as a PDF file no larger than 20MB. Please give a
sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we
can adequately assess its relevance. Please do not include authors’
names and affiliations in the submitted document as peer review will be
double blind. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by a Program
Committee composed of experts in computational social science. Please
follow the abstract template guidelines for formatting and note that
abstracts longer than 3 pages will be automatically rejected.
For additional information, see the conference website which also
includes the Extended Abstract Template (.docx and LaTeX, available at
https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/cfp.html).
The deadline for submission is 01 March 2017 (23:59 Hawaii time). Notice
of acceptance will be 13 April 2017.
We will do our 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 we may accept some abstracts
for a poster session.
Submissions are non-archival.
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CALL FOR TUTORIALS
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We also welcome proposals for tutorials on topics at the intersection of
the social sciences, computer science and/or statistics. We will
consider any topic; provided that the proposal makes a strong argument
that the tutorial is important for the IC2S2 community. Tutorials should
be of interest to a substantial portion the community and should
represent a sufficiently mature area of research or practice. Tutorials
should be comprehensive and should not focus only on the presenter’s
previous work.
We anticipate that each accepted tutorial will be 3 hours long. However,
we are also accepting half-tutorials (1.5 hours) and full-day tutorials
(6 hours).
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PROPOSAL FORMAT
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Proposals for tutorials should provide the following information:
• Title
• Abstract (up to 250 words)
• Description and outline: What material will the tutorial cover? In
what depth? Please provide a detailed outline. If available, please
include URLs for slides and video recordings of the presenters' previous
tutorials.
• Presenters: Who are the presenters? Please provide names,
affiliations, email addresses, and short bios (up to 200 words) for each
presenter. Bios should cover the presenters' expertise related to the
topic of the tutorial. If there are multiple presenters, please describe
how the time will be divided between them.
• Rationale: What are the objectives of the tutorial? What is the
benefit for the attendees? Why is this tutorial important for IC2S2
community?
• Target audience: What is the target audience? From which areas do you
expect potential participants to come? What prior knowledge, if any, do
you expect from the audience? How many attendees do you expect?
• A list of the most important references that will be covered.
• Previous tutorials: Has the tutorial (or a similar/highly related
tutorial) been presented at another venue previously? If so, please list
the dates and venues, and describe the similarities and differences
between the previous tutorials and proposed tutorial.
• Proposed length of the tutorial: please choose from 1.5 hours (half
session), 3 hours (full session), and 6 hours (full day). If you are
flexible, please indicate in the outline the content that will not be
included if a short/long version of the tutorial is given. If you would
like to give a 6 hour tutorial please justify why a full day is necessary.
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SUBMISSION (TUTORIALS)
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Please send your proposals for tutorials to:
(ic2s2tutorialchairs /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ic2s2tutorialchairs /at/ gmail.com)>
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IMPORTANT DATES (TUTORIALS)
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Tutorial proposals due: 10 March 2017
Notifications: 17 March 2017
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ORGANIZERS
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau
Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University
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PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado Boulder
Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder
Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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TUTORIAL CHAIRS
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Ceren Budak, University of Michigan
Jürgen Pfeffer, Technical University of Munich
Derek Ruths, McGill University
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau
Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University
Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
Helen Margetts, University of Oxford
Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research
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