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Noshir Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2013 International Cyber Security Strategy Congress in Leuven, Belgium, on September 6, 2013
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Noshir Contractor delivered the opening keynote at the 11th International Conference on Business Process Management in Beijing on Aug 27, 2013
The title of the keynote was: Moneyball for nanoHUB: Theory-driven and Data-driven Approaches to understand the Formation and Success of Software Development Teams For more information click here.
Noshir Contractor presented an educational workshop on “Creating Effective Social Networks” at the 2013 Ronald McDonald House Charities International Conference in Chicago on Aug 21, 2013.
SONIC bids farewell to Dr. Willem Pieterson who is leaving as Manager of the SONIC Research Group to become the Chief Operating Officer at Syndio Social, which was co-founded by SONIC alum and CEO, Zachary Johnson
For more information on Syndio Social see here.
SONIC welcomes Julia Neidhardt who will be a visiting scholar from the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at Vienna University of Technology from August 5 to November 15, 2013.
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SONIC visitor Julija Mell co-authored, with her colleagues at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, an article titled “The Catalyst Effect: The Impact of Transactive Memory System Structure on Team Performance” in the Academy of Management Journal
Bo Xu (SONIC alum), Yun Huang and Noshir Contractor published an article titled “Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments”
Reference:
Xu, B., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2013). Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments. Presented at the XSEDE ’13: Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery, ACM Request Permissions. doi:10.1145/2484762.2484811
Abstract:
Millions of users follow each other on Twitter and form a large and complex network. The size of the network creates statistical and computational challenges on exploring and examining individual behavior on Twitter. Using a sample of 697,628 Korean Twitter users and 34 million relations, this study investigates the patterns of unfollow behavior on Twitter, i.e. people removing others from their Twitter follow lists. We use Exponential Random Graph Models (p*/ERGMs) and Statnet in R to examine the impacts of reciprocity, status, embeddedness, homophily, and informativeness on tie dissolution. We perform data processing, statistics calculation, network sampling, and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation on Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The process demonstrates the role of advanced computing technologies in social science studies.
Contractor co-organized a team assembly exercise and served on a panel about interdisciplinary research at the Digital Society and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute at College Park, MD on July 29th and 30th
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Noshir Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2013 Big Ten Development Conference in Evanston on July 26, 2013
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Presentation in INSNA 2013 Xi’an
Yun Huang presented a paper “Algorithms for User Recommendation in Social Networks” in the International Network for Social Network Analysis 2013 Conference Xi’an on July 13th. This study compared four link prediction algorithms using Tencent Weibo dataset from KDD CUP 2012 (slides). The work is based on the collaboration with Chuang Zhang, Bocheng Zhu, Ming Wu, and Noshir Contractor.