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You are cordially invited to submit a contribution to "Collective Behaviors and
Networks", a one-day satellite event of the 2013 European Conference on Complex
Systems (ECCS'13), to be held in Barcelona, September 19, 2013.

Goal of this workshop is to provide a discussion venue about advances in the
study of networks applied to the dynamics of social collective behaviors.
Particular attention will be devoted, but not limited to, the following topics:

     - Group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis.
     - Modeling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media.
     - Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis.
     - Social simulation, cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics.
     - Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models.
     - Models of social capital, collective action, social movements.
     - Coevolution of network and behavior.

More information on COVEnANT2013 can be found here: http://covenant2013.com
More information on ECCS'13 can be found here: http://eccs13.eu

Requirements

Participants are invited to submit their contributions via the EasyChair system
at the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=covenant2013

Contributions must be at most 2 pages long, and must provide the following
information: title, list of authors with affiliations, and abstract. Accepted
format is PDF only.

More information, about selection, registration, etc., can be found here:
http://www.covenant2013.com/?page_id=25

Important Dates

     May 17, 2013
     Abstract submission deadline

     June 19, 2013
     Notification of acceptance

     September 19, 2013
     Satellite meeting

Data Challenge

     In order to encourage the development of predictive, data-driven models of
     collective phenomena, a link prediction competition will be held as part of
     the meeting. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the best contributions,
     which will be evaluated according to rigorous scientific criteria by the
     program committee of the event. 1st prize: US$800, 2nd prize: US$200.

     Further information (task, data set, dates) to be released soon.

Keynote Speakers

     Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University, US
     J. Doyne Farmer, University of Oxford, UK
     Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
     Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, US
     Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, US

Special Issue

     The best original contributions will be invited to submit an extended
     version for inclusion in a special issue of EPJ Data Science (Springer).

Organizing Committee

     Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University, US
     Emilio Ferrara, Indiana University, US
     Alessandro Flammini, Indiana University, US
     Filippo Menczer, Indiana University, US

Program Committee

     Luca M. Aiello, Yahoo Research Barcelona, Spain
     Andrea Baronchelli, Northwestern University, US
     Pasquale De Meo, University of Messina, Italy
     Santo Fortunato, Aalto University, Finland
     Jacob Foster, University of Chicago, US
     Matteo Gagliolo, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
     Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, France
     Andrea Lancichinetti, Northwestern University, US
     Michael Mäs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
     Tamás Nepusz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
     Orion Penner, IMT Lucca, Italy
     Nicola Perra, Northeastern University, US
     Filippo Radicchi, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
     José J. Ramasco, IFISC, Spain
     Carlos Roca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
     Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin, Italy
     Daniel Villatoro, Barcelona Digital Technology Centre, Spain


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Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Postdoctoral fellow
Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
Indiana University

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