Paper on MOOCs with University of Maryland iSchool co-authors nominated for Best Paper Award at HICSS 2013
The paper titled The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence participation in the P2P University? was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Learning Analytics and Networked Learning track), 2013.
Authors: June Ahn (Maryland iSchool), Cindy Weng (SONIC), Brian Butler (Maryland iSchool)
Paper co-authored with collaborators at RPI and NCI wins Top Paper Award at HICSS 2013
Paper titled Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco by James P. McCusker, Abdul Shaikh, Noshir Contractor, Paul Courtney, Jeongmin Lee, Glen Morgan, Zaria Tatalovich, Chavon Thomas, and Deborah L. McGuinness received the Top Paper award in the IT Innovation for Change in Healthcare track at the HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) 2013. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/HICSS2013
Article by Brian Keegan (SONIC alum, now at Northeastern U), Darren Gergle (Northwestern U) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC) titled “Hot Off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events” published in American Behavioral Scientist
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Elena Pavan to present in the Sonic Speaker Series
SONIC lab is proud to welcome Elena Pavan, who will present a talk on Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 (12:00-01:15pm) in Frances Searle Building Room 1.459 on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend.
About Elena Pavan
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Sociology and Social Research
via Verdi 26, int. 26
38123 Trento (Italy)
e-mail: elena.pavan@unitn.it
telephone: +39 (0)461 28 1378
Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics in Washington on Dec 16, 2012.
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Join Us, Social Scientists and Software Developers
“SONIC lab is near state-of-the-art in our collaborations between social scientists and software developers.”
-Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Julie Birkholz to present in the Sonic Speaker Series
SONIC lab is proud to welcome Julie Birkholz, who will present a talk on Monday, Dec 17, 2012 (10:30-11:45) in Frances Searle Building Room 1.483 on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend.
About The Talk
Studies on social networks have proved that both structure and social attributes influence dynamics. Two streams of modeling exist to explain the dynamics of social networks: 1) models predicting links through network properties, and 2) models considering the effects of social attributes. In our current work we take an approach to work to overcome a number of computational limitations within these current models.We employ a mean-field model which allows for the construction of a population-specific model informed from empirical research for predicting links from both network and social properties in large social networks. The model is tested on a population of conference coauthorship behaviors of Dutch Computer Scientists, considering a number of parameters from available Web data. We prove that the mean-field model, using a data-aware approach, allows us to overcome computational burdens and thus scalability issues in modeling large social networks. A link to our current work can be found here – http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6615.
About Julie Birkholz
Julie’s research works to comment on institutional influences on patterns of collaboration in producing research of interdisciplinary character. She specifically works to investigate the effects of institutional organizational processes on scientists’ knowledge production processes. For example, how does collaboration evolve in field of scientific practice? Using a combination of social network analysis, bibliomterics and computational social models (e.g. longitudinal actor-based network models such as ERGM), Additionally, she is working within the Semantically Mapping Science Project (http://www.sms-project.org/) which implements the use of Web data to assess science.
Research interests include: knowledge innovation in academic networks, dynamic cooperation techniques in arising collaboration networks, and ephemeral network structures
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Mean-field approach for large social networks
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Contractor presented a seminar titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at Northwestern University, Qatar, on Dec 2, 2012
SONIC members Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor participated in a workshop on “Climate Change and Sustainability Communication- New Tools and Trends” held on December 1, 2012 at Northwestern University Qatar.
The event was associated with the annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 18, being held in Doha, Qatar. For more information see: http://bit.ly/cop18-NU-Q