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

12-16 September 2011

 

Organizers Timoteo Carletti (naXys, FUNDP Univeristy of Namur, Belgium) Guillaume Deffuant (LISC, Cemagref, Clermont-Ferrand, France) Floriana Gargiulo (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France) Sylvie Huet (LISC, Cemagref, Clermont-Ferrand, France)

Satellite meeting at ECCS'11

 

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 analyse 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.

 

Prospective audience

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

 

Call for papers, selection standards and agenda

Original papers should be submitted using the easyChair platform starting from the 15th of February up to the 15th of April. Papers should not be longer than 15 pages. The authors of the selected paper will be informed by the 15th of May.

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.

A selection of the best papers should be envisaged for a specific issue of Advances for Complex Systems. For this reason we encourage the use of the ACS latex style.

 

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

Castellano C.– Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, (ISC-CNR) and Dipartimento di Fisica, "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma, Italy

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

Deffuant G.– Cemagref, 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. – Complex Network Lagrange Lab, ISI, Italy

Galam S. – Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (CREA), École Polytechnique, ENSTA – CREA, Paris, France

Gargiulo F. - Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France

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

Huet S. – Cemagref, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie pour les Systèmes Complexes, Aubière, France

Lambiotte R. – naXys Namur Center for Complex Systems, FUNDP University of Namur, Namur, Belgium

Lorenz J.

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

 

Mason Winter A.– Yahoo! Research, New York, USA

Roth C. – CAMS, EHESS, Paris, France

Urbig D.– Department of Management , Faculty of Applied Economics , University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

Schweitzer F.– Systemgestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

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

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

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

Weisbuch G. – Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS , Département de Physique - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

 

Contacts

 

Timoteo Carletti
naXys, Namur Center for Complex Systems
Tel: +32(0)81/724903
Fax: +32(0)81/724914
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Guillaume Deffuant
Cemagref, LISC
Tel: +33(0)473440614
Fax: +33(0)473440696
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Floriana Gargiuolo
Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques
Tel: +33(0)156062000
Fax: +33(0)156062199
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Sylvie Huet
Cemagref, LISC
Tel: +33(0)473440615
Fax: +33(0)473440696
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