22 May 2014 ~ 0 Comments

The NetSci Multiple Networks Menu

Friends, scientists, network fanatics, lend me your eyes: I come to announce the program of the Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining symposium, introduced some months ago on these pages. To give you a quick recap: this is a satellite event which will happen at the 2014 edition of NetSci, a major network science event of the year. The symposium will take place on Monday June 2nd, while the conference itself will start on June 4th and it will last until the end of the week. Differently from last year, we now have space for contributed talks and I like the program we were able to set up. So, I’ll boast about it here.

You can find the overview of the entire event on the official website, but let me give you the highlights.

We have four invited speakers: Frank Schweitzer, Renaud LambiotteNitesh Chawla and Mason Porter. They come from different backgrounds (System Design, Mathematics and Computer Science) which is a great plus for the event. They are going to:

  • Tackle the mathematical foundations of multiple networks;
  • Describe models for multiple networks;
  • Analyse them, both in the flavour of bipartite temporal social networks and in the extension of the classic link prediction problem. Usually in link prediction we are interested in evaluating the likelihood of seeing “a” connection between two nodes. Since in multiple networks there are different types of connections, we are also interested in predicting “which” connection we will observe.

As for the contributed talks, we have a pretty good team, including (but not limited to) works signed by David Lazer from Northeastern University, Juyong Park from KAIST, Eugene Stanley from Boston University and many more. We had such a positive reaction to our call for papers, that we had to increase the slots for contributed talks from 5 to 7 and still reject presentations that we really wanted to see. Among my favourites works there are:

  • Multiple network applications to study the productivity of countries and predicting their growth;
  • The study of evolution of different relations among almost 2000 students from 14 US universities;
  • A network-based approach for ranking the performances of sport teams;
  • Novel way to classify nodes in complex networks where multiple different relations are present;
  • … and more!

For completeness, here’s the detailed schedule, I hope to see many of you there!

Session I

9.00 – 9.30 Registration / Set Up
9.30 – 9.50 Introduction: Welcome from the organizers, presentation of the program
9.50 – 10.30 Keynote I: Frank Schweitzer, Professor for Systems Design at ETH Zurich
Analysing temporal bipartite social networks
10.30- 11.00 Coffee Break

Session II

11.00 – 11.40 Keynote II: Renaud Lambiotte, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics at University of Namur
Non-Markovian Models of Networked Systems
11.40 – 12.00 Daniel Romero, Nina Mishra and Panayiotis Tsaparas
Estimating the Relative Utility of Networks for Predicting User Activities
12.00- 13.30 Lunch

Session III

13.30 – 14.10 Keynote III: Nitesh Chawla, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Notre Dame
Predicting links in heterogeneous social networks
14.10 – 14.30 Katherine Ognyanova, David Lazer, Michael Neblo, Brian Rubineau and William Minozzi
Ties that bind across contexts: personality and the evolution of multiplex networks
14.30 – 14.50 Neave O’Clery
A Multi-slice Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Complexity and Growth
14.50 – 15.30 Coffee Break

Session IV

15.30 – 16.10 Keynote IV: Mason Porter, Associate Professor at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Formulation of Multilayer Networks
16.10 – 16.30 Seungkyu Shin, Sebastian Ahnert and Juyong Park
Degree-Neutralizing Weighted Random Walk Ranking in Competition Networks
16.30 – 16.50 Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Adrian Popiel, Marcin Kulisiewiecz, Przemysław Kazienko and Bolesław Szymański
Node classification in multiplex networks
16.50 – 17.10 Francesco Sorrentino
Stability of the synchronous solutions for networks with connections of different types
17.10 – 17.30 Andreas Joseph, Irena Vodenska, Eugene Stanley and Guangron Chen
MLR Fit-Networks: Global Balance of Payments

Conclusion and final announcements

17.30 – 18.00

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