Cultural and opinion dynamics: Modeling, Experiments and Challenges for the future

5th September 2011

Satellite meeting at ECCS'12

Organizers Timoteo Carletti (naXys, FUNDP Univeristy of Namur, Belgium) Guillaume Deffuant (LISC, IRSTEA, Clermont-Ferrand, France) Floriana Gargiulo (CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France)

Goals

The aims of the workshop are:

• To draw collectively the "state of the art" of the currently available main families of hypotheses (models) and the applicability domains, the corresponding set of emergent dynamics (results) and the – possible - role of the different hypotheses about the type of network of interactions.
• To reduce the gap with social experiments and to go beyond the disciplines borders, by interacting with social-psychologists to learn about the current state of experiments. To find a common framework to design new experimental techniques based on modern technologies (sensor devices, smartphones apps, internet interfaces).
• To discuss the model validation with real data and analyze which kind of stylized fact of reality are reproduced.
• To foster the research by exchanging knowledge concerning methods for abstract models, for the set of emergent phenomena.
• To discuss the main challenges to address by the field in the years to come, both theoretically and experimentally, with a particular emphasis to web collected experimental data.

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Prospective audience

Number of researchers coming from different domains such as physics, mathematics, cognition, social science modeling, opinion dynamics, network, computer science are potential partners.

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Call for abstracts, selection standards and agenda

Original works should be submitted using the easyChair platform by the 1st of May, only extended abstracts, i.e. not longer than two A4 pages using 11pts Times New Roman fonts (or equivalent ones), will be considered. We encourage you to include in your submission the following sections :

• State of the art;
• Aim;
• Method;
• Results ;
• Conclusions .

The authors of the selected paper will be informed by the 1st of June.

Each paper, made anonymous, will be reviewed by two reviewers among the program committee members. Each paper will be ranked on several dimensions such as clarity, quality of the review, innovation, quality of the analysis.

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Program committee

Amblard F.– IRIT, UMR 5505, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, France

Bagnoli F.– University of Florence, department of Energy, Laboratory of Physics of Complex Systems, Italy

Carletti T.– naXys Namur Center for Complex Systems, FUNDP University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

Deffuant G.– IRSTEA, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie pour les Systèmes Complexes, Aubière, France

Eguiluz Victor M.– Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC, CSIC - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Fanelli D.– University of Florence, department of Energy, Laboratory of Physics of Complex Systems, Firenze, Italy

Flache A.– Department of Sociology. ICS University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Fortunato S. – Dep. of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Finland, and Complex Network Lagrange Lab, ISI, Italy

Gargiulo F. - CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France

Guazzini A.– Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Lorenz J.– Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Zentrum für Methoden der Sozialwissenschaften, Oldenburg, Germany

Nadal J.-P. - CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France and LPS, ENS, Paris, France

Roth C. – CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France

San Miguel Maxi– IFISC, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca,Spain

Schweitzer F.– Systemgestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

Sobkowicz P.– Pasaz Ursynowski 3/41, Warsaw, Poland

Sznajd-Weron K.– Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics Division, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Poland

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Contacts

Timoteo Carletti
naXys
Tel: +32(0)81/724903
Fax: +32(0)81/724914
e-mail

Guillaume Deffuant
IRSTEA, LISC
Tel: +33(0)473440614
Fax: +33(0)473440696
e-mail

Floriana Gargiuolo
CAMS EHESS
Tel: +33(0)56062105

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