CNetS research at CCS'15

ccs2015

Big success for CNetS researchers at the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS'15)! Here are the accepted talks from our center:

  1. Computational fact checking from knowledge networks by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Prashant Shiralkar, Johan Bollen, Luis M Rocha, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini
  2. Control of complex networks requires structure and dynamics by Alexander Gates and Luis M. Rocha
  3. Darwin's Semantic Voyage by Jaimie Murdock, Simon DeDeo, and Colin Allen
  4. Defining and Identifying Sleeping Beauties in Science by Qing Ke, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Radicchi and Alessandro Flammini
  5. Detecting conflict in social unrest using Instagram* by Rion Brattig Correia, Kwan Nok Chan and Luis M. Rocha
  6. Detecting Campaigns in Social Media by Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini
  7. Discourse Polarization in the US Congress by Rion Brattig Correia, Kwan Nok Chan and Luis M. Rocha
  8. Eigenmood Twitter Analysis: measuring collective mood variation by Ian B. Wood, Joana Gonçalves-Sá, Johan Bollen and Luis M. Rocha
  9. Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval by Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Christine Ogan, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini
  10. How human perception of the urban environment influences the abandonment process by Stefani Crabstree, Simon DeDeo
  11. Information theoretic structures of the French Revolution by Alexander Barron, Simon DeDeo, and Rebecca Spang
  12. Measuring Emotional Contagion in Online Social Networks by Zeyao Yang, Emilio Ferrara
  13. Modularity and the Spread of Perturbations in Complex Dynamical Systems* by Artemy Kolchinsky, Alexander J. Gates and Luis M. Rocha
  14. On Predictability of Rare Events Leveraging Social Media by Lei Le, Emilio Ferrara and Alessandro Flammini
  15. Optimal network modularity for information diffusion by Azadeh Nematzadeh, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini and Yong-Yeol Ahn
  16. Redundancy and control in complex networks by Luis M. Rocha
  17. The Rise of Social Bots in Online Social Networks by Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Prashant Shiralkar, Clayton Davis, Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini

Simon DeDeo will also deliver one of the plenary talks. *Denotes papers "starred", or designated as especially worthwhile by the CCS15 program committee.

In addition, CNetS researchers presented several papers at the recent NetSci, ICCSS, CAP 2015, CSCW, YTH Live, WWW, and ICCS conferences. Congratulations!