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CALL FOR PAPERS
NIPS workshop on
Networks in the Social and Information Sciences
12 December 2015, Montreal, Canada
http://tinyurl.com/NetworksNIPS2015
Submission Deadline : Monday, 2 November 2015
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Description
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This workshop aims to bring together a diverse and cross-disciplinary set
of researchers to discuss recent advances and future directions for
developing new network methods in statistics and machine learning. In
particular, we are interested in
• network methods that learn the patterns of interaction, flow of
information, or propagation of effects in social and information systems,
• empirical studies, particularly attempts to bridge observational methods
and causal inference, and studies that combine learning, networks, and
computational social science,
• research that unifies the study of both structure and content in rich
network datasets.
While this research field is broad and diverse, there are emerging signs of
convergence. For example, in the study of information diffusion, social
media and social network researchers are beginning to use rigorous tools to
distinguish effects driven by social influence, homophily, or external
processes -- subjects historically of intense interest amongst
statisticians and social scientists.
Similarly, there is a growing statistics literature developing learning
approaches to study topics popularized earlier within the physics
community, including clustering in graphs, network evolution, and
random-graph models.
Finally, learning methods are increasingly used in highly complex
application domains, such as large-scale knowledge graph construction and
use, and massive social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn. These
applications are stimulating new scientific and practical questions that
often cut across disciplinary boundaries.
Invited speakers (confirmed)
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Deepak Awargal (LinkedIn)
Emily Fox (Washington U)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell U)
Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research)
Format and Submissions
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This is a 1-day workshop. The program will feature 4 invited talks, poster
spotlights and a poster session, and a panel discussion.
We welcome the following types of papers:
• Research papers that introduce new models or apply established models to
novel domains,
• Research papers that explore theoretical and computational issues, or
• Position papers that discuss shortcomings and desiderata of current
approaches, or propose new directions for future research.
Submissions will be lightly peer-reviewed. We encourage authors to
emphasize the role of learning and its relevance to the application domains
at hand. In addition, we hope to identify current successes in the area,
and will therefore consider papers that apply previously proposed models to
novel domains and data sets.
Submissions should be 4-8 pages long, non-anonymized, and otherwise
adhere to NIPS format.
*** Submission Deadline : Monday, November 2, 2015 ***
Decision Notification : Thursday, November 5, 2015
Submissions will be accepted via :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nipsnetworks2015
ISBA Travel Awards
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The workshop is endorsed by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
(ISBA). The organizers have been invited to nominate graduate students or
junior researchers (up to five years after graduation) who will be
presenting at the workshop for ISBA Travel Awards. Two such awards will be
granted (across all NIPS workshops endorsed by the ISBA), offering up to
700 USD in support. To be considered for an ISBA Travel Award, submissions
must be submitted early, by ** October 12, 2015. **
Organizers
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Edo Airoldi, Harvard University
David Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado, Boulder
Panos Toulis, Harvard University
Johan Ugander, Microsoft Research
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best
panos
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