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
Topics
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 & Submissions
Conference deadlines
Abstract submission: September 20, 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: November 1, 2024
Early-bird registration deadline: December 1, 2024
Registrations close: January 10, 2025
Abstract submission instructions
The deadline for submissions has expired.
Submissions are in the form of extended abstracts in PDF format. The submission should include a title, authors’ names and affiliations, a list of 3 keywords, and an extended abstract (serving as the main text of the submission). The abstract should outline the impact of the work, along with (if relevant) the main theoretical contribution, data and methods used, and findings. Extended abstracts should comprise a maximum length of 2 pages including references, figures and tables.
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
Lightning talks will be preferentially assigned to those requesting this form of presentation at submission (please ad a footnote to your abstract). In order to be included in the program, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the early-bird registration deadline.
Submissions will be non-archival, and thus the presented work can be already published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing research. Abstracts will be reviewed by multiple members of a Program Committee composed of experts in computational social science. The review process will be single-blind.
For any questions regarding abstract submissions, please write to: cs2italy@gmail.com
Tutorial deadlines
Tutorial proposals submission: July 30, 2024
Notification of tutorial acceptance: September 1, 2024
Tutorial submission instructions
Submit your tutorial proposal by writing an email to: cs2italy@gmail.com
Submissions for Tutorial proposals should be in PDF format andd should be no more than 2 pages in length. Proposals should contain the following:
- Title
- Presenters/organizers: Please provide names, affiliations, email addresses, for each presenter.
- Format: A description of the proposed event format and a list of proposed activities, with a description of the hands-on component (tools, packages, methods etc).
A regular tutorial slot is 3 hours long and the expected length of each tutorial is no more than 3 hours.
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 ExeterProgram
scheduled planning
All times below are CET
Tutorials in parallel sessions
(Wednesday, 15 January 2025)
Tutorial1
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Tutorial2
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Tutorial1
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Tutorial2
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Main Conference
(Thursday, 16 January 2025)
Conference Opening
Speakers:
Keynote
Speakers:
Coffee Break
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Parallel sessions and contributed talks
Speakers:
Lunch
Speakers:
Plenary session of lightning talks
Speakers:
Coffee Break
Speakers:
Parallel sessions of contributed talks
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Speakers:
Conference Dinner
Speakers:
Main Conference
(Friday, 17 January 2025)
Keynote
Speakers:
Coffee Break
Speakers:
Parallel sessions and contributed talks
Speakers:
Lunch
Speakers:
Keynote
Speakers:
Coffee Break
Speakers:
Parallel sessions of contributed talks
Speakers:
Establishment of the Society Computational Social Science Italy (CS2Italy)
(Saturday, 18 January 2025)
Establishment of the Italian Society of Computational Social Sciences
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Coffee Break
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Election of the President of the Society
Speakers:
Election of the Board of the Society
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Registration
Note: registration will open on October 15, 2024.
Early bid
- Senior fee: €300
- Post-doc fee: €200
- PhD fee: € 150
- Student Ma: €100
- Private fee: €400
Late bid
- Senior fee: €350
- Post-doc fee: €220
- PhD fee: € 160
- Student Ma: €100
- Private fee: €500
- Tutorials: €75
- Dinner: €80
Registration to the CS2Italy conference (all fees) includes a one-year membership to the Society Computational Social Science Italy that will be establised on Saturday, January 18, 2025.
Sponsors
Fee sponsor
Platinum — €. 10,000
- Logo and link on the web page
- Logo highlighted on the conference banner
- Free registration and social event for 5 of your representatives
Gold — €. 5,000
- Logo and link on the web page
- Logo highlighted on the conference banner
- Free registration and social event for 3 of your representatives
Silver — €. 2,000
- Logo and link on the web page
- Logo displayed on the conference banner
- Free registration and social event for 1 of your representatives
Bronze — €. 1,000
- Logo and link on the web page
- Logo displayed on the conference banner
Venue
Department of Sociology and Social Research
Trento, Italy
Via Giuseppe Verdi 26, Trento
Organizers
University of Trento
CNR Rome
University of Trento
ISI Foundation
University of Trento
University of Trento
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
University of Milan
University of Trento
University of Trento
Northeastern University
Scientific Committee
University of Trento
DTU
University of Trento
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
University of Mannheim
University of Milan
University of Trento
NILU - the Climate and Environmental Research Institute
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Bicocca University of Milan
ISI Foundation
CNR
University of Milan
University of Padua
Sapienza University of Rome
TU Dublin
Sapienza University of Rome
City University
University of Padua
Sorbonne Université
King's College London - University of London
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Sorbonne Université
University of Amsterdam
University of Milan
Queen Mary University of London
Max Planck Institute
Sapienza University of Rome
University of Milan
Eastern Piedmont University
Eastern Piedmont University
University of Milan
Collegio Carlo Alberto
University of Trento
University of Trento
University of Milan
University of Trento
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Ca' Foscari University of Venice