CS2Italy2025
1st Conference
On Computational Social Science

University of Trento

15-18 January 2025 -Trento, Italy

About the Conference

About The Event

The CS2 Italy Conference is the premier venue for computational social scientists in Italy and it aims to become an important event for the international research community. The event will serve as a platform for researchers from different disciplines, including economics, sociology, political science, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and the full range of natural and applied sciences, to explore the intersection of social phenomena and computational methods. With a focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to analyze, model, and understand human behavior, the conference promises insightful discussions, groundbreaking research presentations, and networking opportunities.

Where

Department of Sociology and Social Research - Trento, Italy

When

Wednesday to Saturday 15-18 January 2025

The 2025 edition of the CS2 Italy Conference will lead to the establishment of the Society Computational Social Science Italy (CS2 Italy), the first scientific association of all Italian scholars working in the field of computational social science.

Topics

 
We welcome submissions on any topic in the field of computational social science, including but not limited to:

Computational Social Science Theory

Theoretical work that generates new insights, connections, and frameworks for computational social science research

  • Theoretical discussions/concepts in computational social science
  • Science and technology studies approach to computational science work
  • Practical problems in computational social science
  • Issues of inclusivity in computational social science
  • Ethics of computational research on human behavior

Data-Driven Social Science

Data-driven work that describes and discovers social and cultural phenomena or explains and estimates relations between them and the larger society.

  • Network analysis of social systems
  • Methods and issues of social data collection
  • Large-scale social experiments and phenomena
  • Agent-based or other simulation of social phenomena
  • Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena
  • Analysis of meaning through computational analysis of text, images, audio, video, etc.
  • Use of computational methods to map and study cultural patterns and dynamics
  • Social news curation and collaborative filtering
  • Computational social science research in industry, government, and philanthropy

Method Exploration

Work that advances methods and approaches for computational social science.

  • Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making
  • Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational social data
  • Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication dynamics
  • Integration and triangulation of multi-modal social and cultural data
  • Causal inference and computational methods for social science
  • Neural network methods for social analysis and policy exploration
  • Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability and trustworthiness
  • Building and evaluating socio-technical systems
  • Reproducibility in computational social science research
  • Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in computational social science
  • Novel digital data and computational analyses for addressing societal challenges

Types of contribution

The accepted contributions will be selected for one of the following presentations:

  • a lightning talk (~6 mins) in a plenary session
  • an oral presentation in parallel tracks
 

Dates

 

Conference deadlines

Abstract submission: September 20, 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: November 10, 2024
Early-bird registration deadline: December 20, 2024
Registrations close: January 10, 2025

Abstract submission instructions

The deadline for submissions has expired.

Tutorial deadlines

Tutorial proposals submission: July 30, 2024
Notification of tutorial acceptance: September 1, 2024

Conference dates

Tutorials: 15 January 2025
Conference days: 16 - 17 January 2025
Establishment of the society Computational Social Science Italy (CS2Italy): 18 January 2025

 

Invited Speakers

Esteban Moro

Northeastern University

Alison Heppenstall

University of Glasgow

Alex Mesoudi

University of Exeter

Program

scheduled planning

All times below are CET

Tutorials in parallel sessions

(Wednesday, 15 January 2025)

Tutorial Creating and analyzing parliamentary speeches

Alessio Palmero Aprosio (University of Trento)

Tutorial DataScientia services: collecting pervasive data on human behavior

Matteo Busso / Andrea Bontempelli / Ali Hamza / Leonardo Javier Malcotti (University of Trento)

Tutorial Agentizing Computational Models

Francesco Renzini / Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Milan)

Tutorial The Italian Open Social Science Cloud: fostering advanced tools and services for social science research and evidence-based decision-making

Giovanni Cerulli (CNR) and FOSSR members

Main Conference

(Thursday, 16 January 2025)

 

Conference Opening

 

Keynote

 

Coffee Break

 

Parallel sessions and contributed talks

 

Lunch

 

Plenary session of lightning talks

 

Coffee Break

 

Parallel sessions of contributed talks

 

 

Conference Dinner

Main Conference

(Friday, 17 January 2025)

 

Keynote

 

Coffee Break

 

Parallel sessions and contributed talks

 

Lunch

 

Keynote

 

Coffee Break

 

Parallel sessions of contributed talks

Establishment of the Society Computational Social Science Italy (CS2Italy)

(Saturday, 18 January 2025)

 

Establishment of the Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences

 

Coffee Break

 

Election of the President of the Society

 

Election of the Board of the Society

Tutorials

Creating and analyzing parliamentary speeches

Presenters: Alessio Palmero Aprosio (University of Trento)

Website: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/parlaspeechcs2italy

DataScientia services: collecting pervasive data on human behavior

Presenters: Matteo Busso, Andrea Bontempelli, Ali Hamza, Leonardo Javier Malcotti (University of Trento)

Website: https://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/ds-tutorial-cs2italy/

Agentizing Computational Models

Presenters: Francesco Renzini, Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Milan)

Website: https://behavelab.org/workshops/

The Italian Open Social Science Cloud: fostering advanced tools and services for social science research and evidence-based decision-making

Presenters: Giovanni Cerulli (CNR-IRCrES, FOSSR scientific responsible) and FOSSR members

Website: https://www.fossr.eu/

Registration

Registration is open! To register, fill the form you find here.

  • Please, note: CS2Italy is a in presence-only event. No hybrid or remote participation will be possible.
  • To present their work, all speakers must register for CS2Italy and attend the conference in person.
  • Registration fees are described below. All full conference fees include the participation in the tutorials. However, it is possible to register to attend the tutorials only, on January 15, 2025, at a reduced fee.
  • To register for one of the tutorials, please send an email to cs2italy@gmail.com

Early bird (until December 20, 2024)

  • Senior fee: €300
  • Post-doc fee: €200
  • PhD fee: € 150
  • Student Ma: €100
  • Private fee: €400

Late bird (after December 20, 2024)

  • Senior fee: €350
  • Post-doc fee: €220
  • PhD fee: € 160
  • Student Ma: €100
  • Private fee: €500


  • Tutorials only (January 15, 2025): €75
  • Conference Dinner: €80

Registration to the CS2Italy conference (all fees) includes a one-year membership to the Society Computational Social Science Italy that will be established on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

Sponsors

Venue

Department of Sociology and Social Research
Trento, Italy

Via Giuseppe Verdi 26, Trento


Organizers

Alberto Acerbi
University of Trento
Ivano Bison
University of Trento
Ciro Cattuto
ISI Foundation
Roberto Gabriele
University of Trento
Diego Giuliani
University of Trento
Bruno Lepri
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Flaminio Squazzoni
University of Milan
Michele Tizzoni
University of Trento
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
University of Trento
Alessandro Vespignani
Northeastern University


Scientific Committee

Alberto Acerbi
University of Trento
Luca Aiello
DTU
Filippo Andrei
University of Trento
Giulia Andrighetto
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Stefano Balietti
University of Mannheim
Federico Bianchi
University of Milan
Ivano Bison
University of Trento
Riccardo Boero
NILU - the Climate and Environmental Research Institute
Gian Maria Campedelli
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Valerio Capraro
Bicocca University of Milan
Ciro Cattuto
ISI Foundation
Francesca Colaiori
CNR
Luigi Curini
University of Milan
Manlio De Domenico
University of Padua
Niccolo Di Marco
Sapienza University of Rome
Pierpaolo Dondio
TU Dublin
Gabriele Etta
Sapienza University of Rome
Max Falkenberg
City University
Alessandro Galeazzi
University of Padua
Floriana Gargiulo
Sorbonne Université
Krzysztof Krakowski
King's College London - University of London
Bruno Lepri
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Gianluca Manzo
Sorbonne Université
Vittorio Nespeca
University of Amsterdam
Giovanni Pagano
University of Milan
Nicola Perra
Queen Mary University of London
Daniela Perrotta
Max Planck Institute
Walter Quattrociocchi
Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Renzini
University of Milan
Giancarlo Ruffo
Eastern Piedmont University
Anna Sapienza
Eastern Piedmont University
Flaminio Squazzoni
University of Milan
Aron Szekely
Collegio Carlo Alberto
Michele Tizzoni
University of Trento
Marco Tonin
University of Trento
Raffaele Vacca
University of Milan
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
University of Trento
Daniele Vilone
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Eva Vriens
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Fabiana Zollo
Ca' Foscari University of Venice