8-9 Nov 2012
Cambridge MA, U.S.A.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Workshop on Information and Decisions in Social Networks
November 8-9, 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://wids.lids.mit.edu/
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
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
Vivek Farias
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
Martin Wainwright
John Williams