One-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS‘13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013.

Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors.

Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis.
• Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media.
• Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis.
• Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics.
• Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models.
• Models of social capital, collective action, social movements.
• Coevolution of network and behavior.

More information on COVEnANT2013 can be found here: http://covenant2013.com More information on ECCS‘13 can be found here: http://eccs13.eu

Requirements

Participants are invited to submit their contributions via the EasyChair system at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=covenant2013

Contributions must be at most 2 pages long, and must provide the following
information: title, list of authors with affiliations, and abstract. Accepted format is PDF only.

More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here:
http://www.covenant2013.com/?page_id=25

Important Dates

• May 17, 2013

• Abstract submission deadline

• June 19, 2013

• Notification of acceptance

• September 19, 2013

• Satellite meeting

Data Challenge

In order to encourage the development of predictive, data-driven models of collective phenomena, a link prediction competition will be held as part of the meeting. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best contributions, which will be evaluated according to rigorous scientific criteria by the program committee of the event. 1st prize: US$800, 2nd prize: US$200.

Further information (task, data set, dates) to be released soon.

Keynote Speakers

• Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US
• J. Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford, UK
• Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, US
• Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, US

Special Issue

The best original contributions will be invited to submit an extended version for inclusion in a special issue of EPJ Data Science (Springer).

Organizing Committee

• Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University, US
• Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US
• Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, US
• Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, US

Program Committee

• Luca M. Aiello, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain
• Andrea Baronchelli, Northwestern University, US
• Pasquale De Meo, University of Messina, Italy
• Santo Fortunato, Aalto University, Finland
• Jacob Foster, University of Chicago, US
• Matteo Gagliolo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, France
• Andrea Lancichinetti, Northwestern University, US
• Michael Mäs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Tamás Nepusz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Orion Penner, IMT Lucca, Italy
• Nicola Perra, Northeastern University, US
• Filippo Radicchi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
• José J. Ramasco, IFISC, Spain
• Carlos Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
• Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy
• Daniel Villatoro, Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain