IC2S2 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science July 10-13, 2017 Cologne, Germany Web: https://ic2s2.org Twitter: #IC2S2 / @IC2S2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859606284258118/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, we would like to inform you that registration is now open for the 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017)! This international conference brings together scientists from different disciplines and research areas to meet and discuss computational problems in the study of social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments or computational models The goal of the conference is to create a broad and interdisciplinary community of researchers, including academics, tech industry workers, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts, who are committed to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods. In addition to keynote speakers, paper and poster sessions, the conference will also include a series of training opportunities and tutorials. Based on the open call for submissions, we accepted 136 submissions as talks, and 114 as poster presentations. You can find an overview of accepted talks and posters at https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_talks.html and https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/accepted_posters.html. -------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers: -------------------------------------- This year the conference will feature keynotes by the following distinguished experts from different research areas in Computational Social Science: - Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz - Kathleen Carley, Carnegy Mellon University - Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation - Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania - Justin Grimmer, Stanford University - Jeff Hancock, Stanford University - Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern University - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge - María Pereda, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Daniel Romero, University of Michigan - Matt Taddy, Microsoft Research & University of Chicago - Milena Tsvetkova, London School of Economics and Political Science - Dashun Wang, Northwestern University -------------------------------------- Tutorials: -------------------------------------- On the pre-conference day (June 10) there will be the following tutorials: - A Practical Introduction to Spatial Datasets and Urban Applications (Bruno Gonçalves, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas) - Topic modeling European political debates with the EUSpeech dataset (Tatjana Scheffler, Damian Trilling, Cornelius Puschmann) - Social Media for Health Research (Ingmar Weber, Yelena Mejova) - Discovering and Mitigating Algorithmic Discrimination (Sara Hajian, Carlos Castillo) - Introduction to GIS using Google Maps and Google Earth (Toni Rouhana) - A Practical Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis for Text (Jacob Miller, David Gefen, Jorge Fresneda) - Computational Sociolinguistics (Dong Nguyen) - Crowdcomputing and Citizen Science for Large-Scale Experimentst (Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Sohan Dsouza, Oana Vuculescu, Andrew Mao, Iyad Rahwan) - Digital Demographys (Ingmar Weber, Bogdan State) - A brief introduction to Exponential Random Graph Models for social networks (András Vörös) See details and abstracts at: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/tutorials.html -------------------------------------- Registration: -------------------------------------- Please visit our website for all information and for registering: https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/registration.html Early bird tickets will be available until May 25, 2017. Registration will be open until June 22, 2017. We look forward to seeing you in Cologne! Kind regards, the IC2S2 Organizing Team (IC2S2@gesis.org<mailto:IC2S2@gesis.org>)