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Program
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School.)
Taming Complexity: Controlling Networks

Nicholas A. Christakis (Harvard Medical School)
The Evolutionary Significance of Human Social Networks

Noshir Contractor (Northwestern Univ.)
Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st Century Networks

Vasant Dhar, NYU Stern
Diffusion of Catastrophic Risk in Financial Networks

Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
Mining Billion-Node Graphs - Patterns and Influence Propagation

Sanjeev Goyal (Univ. of Cambridge)
Network Cognition

Matt Jackson (Stanford Univ.)
Diffusion of Microfinance

Michael Kearns (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Competitive Contagion in Networks

David Lazer (Harvard University)
Computational Social Science: What's Next?

Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University)
Time Scales and Contagion Processes in Complex Networks

Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)
Collaborative Problem Solving in Networks

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (by alphabetical order of first author of paper)

Authors and Affiliations TITLE
Robert Ackland (The Australian National University), Lingfei Wu (City University of Hong Kong) Web Index Numbers
Yaniv Altshuler (MIT Media Lab), Nadav Aharony (MIT Media Lab), Yuval Elovici (Ben Gurion Univ.) Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab), and Manuel Cebrian (MIT Media Lab) Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists
Yaniv Altshuler, Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT Media Lab) Information Flow in Networks - Trendsetters, Bellwethers and Shepherd Dogs
Sinan Aral and Sean Taylor (NYU Stern) Exploring Viral Incentive Systems for WOM Diffusion: A Randomized Field Experiment
Chris Arney and Kathryn Coronges (United States Military Academy) Cooperation in Information Networks
Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi, (University of Maryland) Industry Structure & Its Determinants
Manuel Cebrian, Ramamohan Paturi, and Daniel Ricketts (UC San Diego) Experimental Study of the Impact of Historical Information in Coordination Games
R.F. Chen, S. M. Uzzo, R. Faux, C.B. Cramer, (Univ. of Mass Boston) Ripple Effects: Small-scale investigations into the sustainability of ocean education networks
Kenneth Chung (Univ. of Sydney) Performance in Knowledge-Intensive Work: The Influence of ICT Use and Social Networks
Ryan Compton, Hankyu Moon, and Tsai-Ching Lu (UCLA) Catastrophe Prediction Via Estimated Network Autocorrelation
Drew Conway and John Myles White (Princeton Univ.) A Comparison of Social Network Analysis and Text Regression using Twitter Data
Kathryn Coronges, Ronald Dodge, Cort Mukina, Zachary Radwick, Joseph Shevchik (United States Military Academy) The Influences of Social Networks on Phishing Vulnerability
Lorenzo Coviello (UC San Diego), James H. Fowler (UC San Diego), Massimo Franceschitti (UC San Diego), Adam Kramer (Facebook, Inc.), Cameron Marlow (Facebook, Inc) Weather affecting mood via social network analysis
Daniel Evans and Margaret Moten (Network Science Center) A Network Model of Frontier Capital Markets
Gourab Ghoshal and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School.) Ranking stability and super-stable nodes in complex networks
Charles Gomez(Stanford University), David Lazer (Northeastern University and Harvard Kennedy School) Global and Local Diversity in Networks and Systemic Performance
Dilek Gunnec, S. Raghavan (Univ. of Maryland) Integrating Social Network Effects in Product Design
Christian Henning (University of Kiel), Christian Assmann (University of Bamberg), and Johanes Hedtrich (University of Kiel) The emergence of local elite networks and political performance: - An econometric approach
Pascal Jürgens (University of Mainz, Germany), Andreas Jungherr (University of Bamberg, Germany) Political Selectivity Among Twitter Users: An Analysis of Political Conversation Networks in Germany
Silvio Lattanzi (Google Inc.), Alessandro Panconesi (Informatica, Sapienza Universita), D. Sivakumar (Yahoo! Research) Evolutionary Models and Cyber-replicas of Large Small Worlds
Joshua Letchford (Duke University), Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Sandia National Laboratories) Computing Randomized Security Strategies in Networked Domains
Yang-Yu Liu (Northeastern Univ.), Jean-Jacques Slotine (MIT), Albert-L aszlo Barabasi (Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School.) Control Centrality and Hierarchical Structure in Complex Networks
Ankur Mani (MIT), Iyad Rahwan, Alex (Sandy) Pentland Localized Externalities and Peer-Pressure in Social Networks: Free-riding, Co-ordination and Efficiency
David McArthur (University of Maryland, College Park) Information contagion with costly communication
Foster Provost (NYU Stern) Social Networks and Predictive Modeling
Victor M. Preciado and Ali Jadbabaie (Univ. of Pennsylvania) The Role of Local Topological Information in Viral Information Spreading
Matthew J. H. Rattigan (Univ. of Mass Amherst) Reidentification of Artists and Genres in KDD Cup 2011
Lauren Rhue (NYU Stern) and Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern) Digital Access, Political Networks and the Diffusion of Democracy
Brian Rubineau (Cornell University), David Lazer (Northeastern University), Michael Neblo ( Ohio State University), Shinwon Noh (Cornell University) Pathways of peer influence: Networks and STEM career and major plans
Derek Ruths (McGill), Bruce Kogut (Columbia), Michael Conover (Indiana University), David Lazer (Northeastern) The Political Coloring of Corporate Boards: Network Dynamics of Director Selection and the Political Slant of Corporate Interests
John C. Scott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Influencing the Agenda: A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Interest Group and Legislation
Ramanath Subramanyam (University of Illinois),Ali Tafti (University of Illinois), Mu Xia (Leavey School of Business) Team Member Connectedness, Innovation, and Creativity in Open Source CollaborativeKnowledge Networks
Lei Tang (Yahoo! Labs) Network Inference via Social Dimensions
Greg Ver Steeg and Aram Galstyan (University of Southern California) Bell Inequalities to Rule Out Homophily in Social Networks
Matthew Weber (Rutgers University) Organizational Change Online: Birth and Death in Rapidly Changing Environments
Barry Wellman, Anatoliy Gruzd, Dimitrina Dimitrova,  Zack Hayat, Mo Guang Ying, Diana Mok, and Xiaolin Zhuo (Univ. of Toronto) Networking Work
Dobin Yim (Univ. of Maryland) Exploring WOM vs. Observational Learning in Online Social Giving
Lixiu Yu, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson (Stevens Institute of Technology) Feature Propagation in Idea Networks
Peter Pal Zubcsek (University of Florida), Imran Chowdhury (ESSEC) and Zsolt Katona (UC Berkeley) Information Communities: Cohesive Groups in the Enron Email Network
PARALLEL SPEAKERS (by alphabetical order of first author of paper)

Authors and Affiliations TITLE
Katharine A. Anderson (Carnegie Mellon University), Ross C. O’Connell (Carnegie Mellon University), The Information Content of Network Measures
Peter M. Aronow (Yale University) and Cyrus Samii (New York University) Estimating Average Causal Effects under General Interference between Units
Delia Baldassarri (Princeton University) Leadership and Networks in Public Goods Provision: Evidence from lab in the field experiments in Uganda
Ravi Bapna (University of Minnesota), Alok Gupta (University of Minnesota), Sarah Rice (University of Connecticut), Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern) Trust, Reciprocity and the Strength of Friendship Ties: Experiments on an Online Social Network
Ceren Budak (UC Santa Barbara), Divyakant Agrawal (UC Santa Barbara), Amr El Abbadi (UC Santa Barbara) Structure-Aware Trend Detection in Online Social Networks
Jesse Chu-Shore, David Lazer and Ethan Bernstein (Northeastern University) Structural holes and information overload: experimental evidence
M. D. Conover, J. Ratkiewicz, B. Goncalves, M. Francisco, A. Flammini & F. Menczer (Indiana University) Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere
Scott Counts (Microsoft Research) Human Cognition and Bias in Social Information Networks
German Creamer, Yong Ren, Jeff Nickerson (Stevens Institute of Technology) News, Corporate Network and Price Discovery
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University) Linguistic style coordination in online social networks
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye , Jesika Haria , Manuel Cebrian, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT) An Experiment in Approximate Social Search
Christopher DuBois, Padhraic Smyth, Carter Butts (Univ. of California, Irvine) Hierarchical Models of High School Classroom Dynamics
Aram Galstyan and Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California) Information Transfer in Social Media
Sharad Goel, Duncan J. Watts, Daniel G. Goldstein (Microeconomics and Social Systems, Yahoo! Research) The Structure of Online Diffusion Networks
Mangesh Gupte and Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers Univ) Measuring Tie Strength in Implicit Social Networks
Stephen Judd (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Michael Kearns (Univ. of Pennsylvania), Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Sandia National Laboratories) Behavioral Conflict and Fairness in Social Networks
Jerry Kim (Columbia Business School), Bruce Kogut (Columbia Business School), Jae-Suk Yang (Columbia Business School) Executive Compensation, Fat Cats and Best Athletes
Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute), Rumi Ghosh (USC Information Sciences Institute) Rethinking Network Structure
Tanya Menon and Edward Bishop Smith(Univ. of Michigan) Affirming power vs. confirming identity: Stable identities enable the cognitive activation of broad networks in times of social change
Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research) Overlapping Clustering: Conductance Minimization and Distributed Computation
Huseyin Oktay (Univ. of Massachusetts), A. Soner Balkir (Univ. of Chicago), Ian Foster (Univ. of Chicago), David Jensen (Univ. of Mass). Distance Estimation with MapReduce for Large Networks
Wei Pan, Nadav Aharony, Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT Media Lab) Fortune Monitor or Fortune Teller: Understanding the Connection between Interaction Patterns and Financial Status
Brian Rubineau (Cornell Univ), Evan Polman (New York University) Loving Those Who Love Themselves: Narcissism and Changes in Network Centrality
Sean Taylor and Sinan Aral (NYU Stern) Peer Effects and the Dynamics of Product Use
Chun-Yuen Teng, Liuling Gong, Avishay Livne, Celso Brunetti, Lada Adamic (Univ. of Michigan) Coevolution of Network Structure and Content
Marshall Van Alstyne (Boston University & MIT Sloan), Marco DiMaggio (MIT Economics Dept) Information Sharing & Performance: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
Wouter Vermeer, Otto Koppius (Erasmus University) Micro-Level Dynamics in Macro-Level Networks: Global Trade 1995-2008
Dashun Wang (NEU, Harvard), Dino Pedreschi (NEU, Univ of Pisa), Chaoming Song (NEU, Harvard), Fosca Giannotti (NEU, ISTI-CNR), and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (NEU, Harvard) Human Mobility and Social Networks
Barry Wellman, Melissa Godbout, Tracy L.M. Kennedy and Yu Janice Zhang (Univ. of Toronto) Closeness is a Many-Splendored Thing
Jaewon Yang and Jure Leskovec (Stanford University) Detecting Overlapping Communities Using the Ground-truth Communities


Key Dates
Workshop Dates:
September 30th-October 1st, 2011
Abstract Submission Deadline:
August 20th, 2011.
Notification to Authors:
September 1st, 2011
Final Abstract Submission for Publication in Workshop Notes:
September 15th, 2011
Early Registration Deadline:
September 10th, 2011
Onsite Registration(Space Permitting):
September 30th, 2011
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