Calls of NetSci2012 in Evanston, IL
Call for Contributed Talks & Poster Abstracts
Bringing together leading researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science (including analysts, modeling experts, visualization specialists, and others), NetSci fosters interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. The conference focuses on novel directions in networks research within the biological and environmental sciences, computer and information sciences, social sciences, finance and business.
Deadlines
February 29, 2012: Submission of Abstracts
April 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
June 1, 2012: Last Day for Submission of Revisions
Rules Governing Submission of Contributed Talks & Posters
1. A first author may present only one contributed abstract for the regular program. If a second abstract is submitted with the same first author, that abstract may be placed as a poster, at the discretion of the program committee.
2. Abstracts submitted after the abstract deadline may be placed in poster sessions or rejected at the discretion of the program organizers, who are under no obligation to schedule any contributed abstract that arrives after the close of business on the deadline date.
3. Preferences expressed by the author for oral or poster presentation, for presentation on a particular day, or for a particular order of presentation within a session, will be accommodated whenever possible, but at the discretion of the program organizers. Please note your preference at the end of your abstract: Contributed Only, Poster Only or Both.
4. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair abstract submission link. Although .pdf submissions are accepted, you still MUST add the author’s and abstract in the spaces provided. For .pdf’s, font must be no less than 10pt, have 1 inch margins, single space formatting and cannot exceed 1 page.
Submission Link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netsci2012
5. Once the abstracts have been sorted by the program organizers, honoring requests for changes to abstracts will be limited to misspellings in authors’ names up until the program is published on the web. Therefore it is imperative that you proof your abstract prior to submission.
6. Upon notification of abstract placement in the program it is the responsibility of the authors to check the abstract on the web program immediately and notify the NetSci staff of any discrepancies.
7. Requests for withdrawals must come to the NetSci in writing by e-mail. Withdrawals received prior to the printing of the program Bulletin will be withdrawn from the Bulletin. Withdrawals received after the printing of the Bulletin, will be reflected in the program Corrigenda.
8. In general, the time allotted for the presentation of oral contributed abstracts is seventeen minutes for presentation and three minutes for questions.
9. Authors of abstracts assigned to poster sessions should be sure that the title and content of the poster correspond to the title and content of the abstract printed in the program Bulletin. The poster should be displayed so that a number of people can view the presentation at the same time. You may tack your poster up to the provided backing boards. When designing your poster, take into consideration that attendees may be viewing the material from a distance beyond 3′. The minimum poster size is 3′ high x 3.5′ wide (.92 x 1.07 meters) but no larger than 4′ high x 4′ wide (1.22 x 1.22 meters).
All questions regarding NetSci 2012 Contributed Talks/Posters should be directed to netsci2012@gmail.com. Please place in the subject heading – “Calls”.
SONIC presented activities as part of WSTNet
On January 11th, SONIC lab presented some of its current activities as a part of the Web Science Trust network. These presentations are available online as webinars. To view the videos, follow the link: http://bit.ly/xlADAx. To download our introductory slides click here
Contractor interviewed on 3 “comms”
SONIC lab director Dr. Noshir Contractor was interviewed on 3 Comms – Commerce, Communication and Communities. MYRA School of Business, India. Watch the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SySMmpgSe0
Edward Smith SONIC Speaker Series
On Monday, February 6, from 9:30-11:00 a.m. Dr. Edward (Ned) Smith will be giving a presentation in room 1-483 of the Frances Searle Building on the Northwestern University Evanston Campus. The talk is entitled “Identity and Network Activation”.
About the talk
In his talk Ned will focus on his research on Identity and Network Activation. Using a dynamic cognitive model of network activation, Ned and his colleagues experimentally test two com peting hypotheses on the link between identity and network activation. On one hand, affirming people’s power might enable agency. On the other hand, if such power affirmations conflict with people’s more stable status characteristics, this could create tension. These hypotheses were tested experimentally by priming people at varying levels of status with power
(high/low) and social change (significant/none) and asking them to recall their social networks. Results suggest that stable, confirmed identities, and not feelings of power, are the foundation from which people can exhibit greater network responsiveness.
About Ned Smith
Ned Smith is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business prior to joining the faculty at Ross in 2010. His research focuses on the construction and consequences of organizational identity, with an emphasis on financial markets. He draws on sociological and network theories to develop and test new identity-based models of organizational behavior and investor decision-making. He also studies how people mentally construct their social worlds -i.e., their social networks- according to situational and environmental variations. Ned’s research has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Management Science, and Organization Science.
The flyer for the talk can be downloaded here.
Contractor Presented at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
Noshir Contractor presented Using Multi-theoretical Multilevel Models to Understand and Enable Communities at the Workshop on Network Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, on January 11th, 2012. This workshop is part of a special year on network science organized by the Indian Institute of Science Mathematics Initiative in conjunction with the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai. For more information, see: http://www.icts.res.in/
Ryan Whalen to present at Complenet 2012
SONIC lab PhD researcher Ryan Whalen will present a paper titled “Modeling annual Supreme Court influence: The role of citation practices and judicial tenure in determining precedent network growth” at Complenet 2012. The paper offers a unique way to understand and analyze the development of legal citation systems. Subsequent to the conference, the paper will be published as part of a Studies in Computational Intelligence series book.
SONIC Alumnus Zach Johnson ranked #8 by Empact100
Syndio Social co-founded by SONIC alum and Northwestern graduate, Zachary Johnson, was ranked #8 on the 2011 Empact100 list of top companies run by entrepreneurs age 30 and under. For more information see: http://empact100.com/list.php
CSCW Paper on MTML Model of Wikipedia Coauthorship
A paper coauthored by Brian Keegan, Noshir Contractor, and assistant professor Darren Gergle examining the coauthorship networks of Wikipedia articles was accepted to the 2012 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Abstract:
Prior scholarship on Wikipedia’s collaboration processes has examined the properties of either editors or articles, but not the interactions between both. We analyze the coauthorship network of Wikipedia articles about breaking news demanding intense coordination and compare the properties of these articles and the editors who contribute to them to articles about historical airline accidents. Using p*/ERGM methods to test a multi-level, multi-theoretical model, we identify how editors’ attributes and editing patterns interact with articles’ attributes and authorship history. Editors’ attributes like prior experience have a stronger influence on the self-organization of the collaboration, but article attributes also play significant roles. Finally, we discuss the implications our findings and methods have for understanding the socio-material duality of collective intelligence systems beyond Wikipedia.
Professor Contractor featured in NCA Communication Scholar video
Professor Contractor is one of four communication scholars featured in a video titled Grantseeking Basics: A Guide for the Communication Scholar prepared by the National Communication Association (NCA) and to be showcased at the NCA annual convention in New Orleans on Friday November 18 from 12:30-1:45 pm in LaGalerie 1 on the second floor of the Marriott Hotel, New Orleans. Video can be viewed at: http://www.natcom.org/Default.aspx?id=2147484475&libID=2147484475
Contractor Delivers keynote at ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
SONIC Lab director Noshir Contractor delivers opening keynote address titled “From Understanding to Enabling Networks: Using Web Science to Enhance Recommender Systems” at the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Chicago IL on October 24th For more information see: