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SNSF: 127 years of Swiss Parliament

SDSC: Democracy Studies

ET SP-RC: Systemic Risk for Privacy in Online Interaction

SERI: Information Spaces

MTEC: Interaction patterns

SNSF: Emotional Interactions

ETH SP-RC: Performance and resilience of collaboration networks

EU COST: KNOWeSCAPE - Information Landscapes

ETH: Systemic Risks, Systemic Solutions

EU: Multilevel Complex Networks

SNSF: Payoffs of Networks

SNSF ISJRP: Trust-based search in P2P Networks

EU: Forecasting Financial Crises

SNSF: OTC Derivatives

SNSF: R&D Network Life Cycles

SNSF: Social Interactions and Architecture in OSS

EU: Cyberemotions

ETH: CCSS - Coping with Crises

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Introduction to multi-edge network inference in R using the ghypernet-package

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European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science

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SG Seminars 2015-

SG Seminars 2005-2014

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Introduction to multi-edge network inference in R using the ghypernet-package

Symposium Economic Networks

Symposium Networks, Time and Causality

Second Symposium Computational Social Science

Symposium Computational Social Science

10 Years Anniversary

European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science

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Temporal networks

Multi-layered networks

Models of systemic risk

Biological systems

Software engineering

Online Social Networks

Animal groups

Socio-technical systems

Social Software Engineering

Opinion dynamics

Emotional influence

Outbreak of cooperation

R&D networks

Financial networks

Ownership networks

Response in Media

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SNSF: 127 years of Swiss Parliament

SDSC: Democracy Studies

ET SP-RC: Systemic Risk for Privacy in Online Interaction

SERI: Information Spaces

MTEC: Interaction patterns

SNSF: Emotional Interactions

ETH SP-RC: Performance and resilience of collaboration networks

EU COST: KNOWeSCAPE - Information Landscapes

ETH: Systemic Risks, Systemic Solutions

EU: Multilevel Complex Networks

SNSF: Payoffs of Networks

SNSF ISJRP: Trust-based search in P2P Networks

EU: Forecasting Financial Crises

SNSF: OTC Derivatives

SNSF: R&D Network Life Cycles

SNSF: Social Interactions and Architecture in OSS

EU: Cyberemotions

ETH: CCSS - Coping with Crises

SERI: Agents Competing for Centrality

Projects finished before 2012

Publications
Teaching ► ◄

Social Data Science

Systems Dynamics and Complexity

Agent-Based Modelling of Social Systems

Complex Networks

Theses

Services ► ◄

Scientific Journals

Downloads

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Talks

SG Seminars 2015-

SG Seminars 2005-2014

Workshops

Introduction to multi-edge network inference in R using the ghypernet-package

Symposium Economic Networks

Symposium Networks, Time and Causality

Second Symposium Computational Social Science

Symposium Computational Social Science

10 Years Anniversary

European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science

ETH Risk Center ► ◄

ETH Risk Center Working Paper Series

CCSS Working Paper Series

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Symposium "Computational Social Science"

(c) Jacob Moreno: Who Shall Survive? A new approach to the Problem of Human Interrelations. Beacon House, 1934

Computational social science has become a buzz word, already. On the one hand, it bears the promise to revolutionize social sciences, by means of 'big' data mining, new analytics, large-scale computer simulations. On the other hand, just like in any scientific endeavour, research should be aimed at testing hypotheses informed by social theories, rather than merely being motivated by the availability of data or computational methods.

Our symposium wants to contribute to this discussion in a twofold manner: First, it highlights hot topics in computational social science, such as data-driven studies of political systems or the quantitative analysis of social organizations. Secondly, it showcases how advanced computational and statistical methods can be used to quantify, measure and analyse social phenomena and to address long-standing issues in the social sciences.

Frank Schweitzer

When
Friday | November 6, 2015 | 9:00 - 12:00
Where
ETH Main Campus | HG E 3 | Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich

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Program


9:00 - 9:15 Opening (Frank Schweitzer)


9:15 - 10:00

Markus Strohmaier, GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften Köln

Measuring Political Phenomena on the Web

The wide-spread adoption of online and social media by political parties has catalyzed research into computational approaches towards understanding political systems and phenomena. With the web as a platform, new fine-grained, high resolution data about political actors and processes has become available that enables novel insights into how political actors communicate with voters, how they coordinate with each other, and how they participate in agenda setting and decision making. In this talk I will present ongoing research about measuring such political processes using data from Twitter during the German Bundestagswahl 2013 and data from the Online Delegative Democracy platform LiquidFeedback.

 

10:00 - 10:45

Ingo Scholtes, Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich

Mining Social Organizations: A Network Perspective

The convergence of social and technical systems provides us with a wealth of data on the structure and dynamics of social organizations. It is tempting to utilize these data in order to better understand how social organizations evolve, how their structure is related to their "success", and how the position of individuals in the emerging social fabric affects their performance and motivation. Taking a complex network perspective on these questions, in this talk I will introduce recent research results obtained in the context of collaborative software engineering. These results demonstrate the potential of computational methods in the study of social phenomena. At the same time I will highlight fallacies arising in the application of the complex networks perspective on socio-technical systems.


10:45 -11:15  Coffee Break


 

11:15 - 12:00

Ulrik Brandes, University Konstanz

Measuring a Node's Position in a Network

Centrality indices are usually referred to as measures of structural importance, but the allusion to measurement is rather problematic. We propose an alternative approach to centrality that is inspired by conjoint measurement and based on a common generalization of previous notions of position together with a novel concept of positional dominance. It has far-reaching implications for network analysis at large, some of which will be hinted at.

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