CALL FOR PAPERS:
Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks
November 8-9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interdisciplinary workshop for researchers working on information and decisions in social networks.
During the last decade, it has become clear that network interactions have a much larger role in our lives than had previously been appreciated: social networks have a defining impact on not only consumer choice but are also central in social and political decisions ranging from the political discourse in the blogosphere to the organization and coordination of protests in the Arab spring. Similarly financial networks seem at the heart of the 2008 crash. Network effects are now seen as major elements in other domains with human decisions including healthcare, public health, smart power grids, urban transportation, and more. As a consequence, both businesses and government are increasingly looking to build new types of networks to improve management abilities.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from different communities working on information propagation and decision making in social networks to investigate both rigorous models that highlight capabilities and limitations of such networks as well as empirical and simulations studies of how people exchange information, influence each other, make decisions and develop social interactions.
The workshop is organized by the virtual center Connection Science and Engineering, a multidisciplinary and interdepartmental MIT center that focuses on developing an integrated framework for the study of the connected world we live in. The center is hosted jointly by Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Media Lab, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Registration is now open. Please visit the workshop website http://wids.lids.mit.edu/ to complete your registration. We have limited seating available and registration will be processed on a first-come first-serve basis.
Submission Instructions:
All contributions, theoretical, empirical, and experimental, on social networks are welcome. There will be no published proceeding. The material submitted to the workshop may also be submitted elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of one to three pages by the deadline of September 15, 2012. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) on the first page. Pages of the abstract should not be numbered. Electronic submission of manuscripts in PDF format is required.
Please send your manuscript directly to widssubmission@gmail.com by September 15, 2012.
Important Dates
June 2012: Registration begins
September 15, 2012: Submission deadline
October 10, 2012: Program available
November 8-9, 2012: Workshop
Organizers
Frank Alexander, LANL
Vincent Blondel, UCLouvain (Belgium) and LIDS, MIT
Costis Daskalakis, CSAIL, MIT
David Gamarnik, Sloan School, MIT
Asu Ozdaglar, LIDS, MIT
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Media Lab, MIT
Devavrat Shah, LIDS, MIT
John Tsitsiklis, LIDS, MIT
Scientific committee
Daron Acemoglu
Itai Ashlagi
Laszlo Barabasi
Kostas Bimpikis
Larry Blume
Damon Centola
Munther Dahleh
Costis Daskalakis
Ben Golub
Marta Gonzalez
Sanjeev Goyal
Julien Hendrickx
Cesar Hidalgo
Ali Jadbabaie
Patrick Jaillet
Sep Kamvar
Gary King
David Lazer
Jure Leskovec
Andrew W. Lo
Mihai Manea
Andrew McAfee
Christos Papadimitriou
Pablo Parrilo
R. Ravi
Whitman Richards
Alessandro Vespignani
John Williams
If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to
mas-ms-owner@media.mit.edu Thanks!
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