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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (POSTERS + PRESENTATIONS) ==============================================================

2nd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

Cologne, Germany

Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015 Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015

Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/

Hashtag: #cssws15

ABOUT THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

The CSS Winter Symposium 2015 will be an interdisciplinary three-day event consisting of:

• an exciting program featuring a series of invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science
• an open call for contributed presentations and posters that will provide opportunities for computational social scientists to present and discuss their own work.
• the opportunity to participate in workshops and tutorials on the day prior to the symposium
• plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University), Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark), Jürgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University), Ralph Schroeder (University of Oxford)

IMPORTANT DATES

Poster+presentation submissions: September 28, 2015

Poster+presentation notification: October 19, 2015

(Workshop/Tutorial submissions:) (September 01, 2015)

Registration deadline: November 19, 2015

Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015

Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015

POSTER + PRESENTATION SUBMISSIONS

We invite submissions that describe research results or tools and methods for computational social science.

Exemplary topics for submissions include but are not limited to:

• Theories and models explaining the dynamics in social systems, networks, communities and teams
• Studies of political discourse and spread of opinions, attitudes and information on the web
• Studies of cultures and conflicts, segregation, discrimination, prejudice via new kinds of data
• Social-/Computational aspects of health, life style, sports and diet
• Social-/Computational aspects of human movement, mobility and urban planning
• Mixed methods and techniques (e.g. obtrusive/unobtrusive methods)
• Methods to deal with biased, selective and incomplete observational data on the Web
• Tools that detect and prevent mobbing or depressive behavior online
• Tools that support social scientists to capture, store and analyze social data on the Web
• Methods for the design and execution of online experiments for the social sciences

Other related topics are explicitly welcome.

Each accepted submission will be given a brief plenary time slot for presentation (e.g. during Pecha Kucha or short presentation sessions) as well as a poster stand during the joint poster session of the event.
The event will be non-archival (i.e. no proceedings).

Submissions should be 1-2 page abstracts (up to approx. 1000 words) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit mature work that has already been published and/or submit work-in-progress.
Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions.

Authors are kindly requested to submit a PDF file via the easychair submission system for the event:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssws15

The full call for posters+presentations can also be found at:
http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/home/call-for-papers-and-posters/

ORGANIZATION AND VENUE

The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at Maternushaus within walking distance of the central train station and the Cologne cathedral.

We aim to keep registration costs very low or - if possible - free. More information will be made available soon.
Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance, talks are open to anyone interested. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend the pre-conference events (Dec 1st, 2015), participate in the informal evening event (Cologne Christmas markets) and plan their travel accordingly.
PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues.

CONTACT

SYMPOSIUM CHAIR:

Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Germany

E-mail: markus.strohmaier@gesis.org
Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

Diana Lindner, M.A.
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Computational Social Science Department Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Germany

Email: diana.lindner@gesis.org
Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401