African RoadMap
The African RoadMap for Complex Systems Research is being developed following the "African Conference on the Science of Complex Systems" held on the 9th and 10th November 2011, in Dakar. The conference...
View ArticleInternational Meeting on Visualization in Complex Environments
The International Meeting on Visualization in Complex Environments took place at Politecnico di Torino, November 17-18, 2011. The programme covered the tracks Visualization and Decision Making in...
View ArticleReports from ECCS11 Bursary Winners
One of the work packages of ASSYST is to provide conference support and, in particular, to attempt to increase variety in the CS community by supporting female scientists and minority groups. This year...
View ArticleBubble Trouble
When a stock market rises unsustainably, it can create a financial bubble that sooner or later will burst. Tobias Preis explains whether concepts from physics can be used to create a law describing...
View ArticleThe endogenous dynamics of markets: price impact and feedback loops
“The endogenous dynamics of markets: price impact and feedback loops” was presented by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Capital Fund Management, ESPCI Paris Tech, Ecole Polytechnique) at FET’11 - The European...
View ArticleASSYST Workshop on Mathematics for the Dynamics of Multilevel Systems
Following highly successful meetings on Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems at ECLT in Venice and Warwick University in February and June 2011, we are holding the meeting Mathematics for the...
View ArticleThe Briefing - R&D News
In the days where paper was king there was a good reason why lots of different publications covered the same stories: they had to serve their readers, and there was a good chance that they did not have...
View ArticleMarc Casson (University of Reading) : “Social Norms: An Economist’s Perspective”
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View ArticleDavid Hales (Open University):“Rationality meets the tribe:Recent models of...
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View ArticleSharad Goel (Yahoo! Research) :“The structure of online diffusion networks”
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View ArticleAurelie Charles (University of Bath): Social norms meet...
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View ArticleMason Porter (University of Oxford):“Social structure of Facebook networks”
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View ArticleNicky Hickman: “Private vs Social – the two faces of personal data”
Talk presented at the Interdisciplinary workshop on the evolution of social norms 15-16 December 2011, Henley-on-Thames, Henley Business school, Greenland campus...
View Article'Creative practice, complexity and the creative economy' Research Symposium
The role of complexity in the creative economies: connecting people, ideas and practice: a research project In the past 12 months, the organizers have been involved the AHRC funded project. The role of...
View ArticleJeff Johnson - 'Hypernetworks'
Talk presented at the ASSYST Workshop on Mathematics for the Dynamics of Multilevel Systems, held at the European Centre for Living Technology, Venice, 26th - 28th February 2012.
View ArticleYasmin Merali - 'Welcome to the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks...
Yasmin Merali - "Introduction to the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks and Social Media"
View ArticleBernardo Huberman - 'Social Media and Attention'
Bernardo Huberman - "Social Media and Attention" The past decade has witnessed a momentous transformation in the way people interact and exchange information with each other. Content is now...
View ArticleSanjeev Goyal - 'Networks: contagion and resilience'
Sanjeev Goyal - "Networks: contagion and resilience" Connections between individuals (persons, firms, banks, cities and countries) facilitate the exchange of goods, resources and information but they...
View ArticleMaxi San Miguel - 'What do we learn from simple models of social behavior?'
Maxi San Miguel - "What do we learn from simple models of social behavior?" When does a social group reach agreement by imitation processes? I will discuss how we answer this question by considering...
View ArticleMartin Everett - 'The dual projection approach for 2-mode networks'
Martin Everett - "The dual projection approach for 2-mode networks" There have been two distinct approaches to two mode data. The first approach is to project the data to one mode and then analyze the...
View ArticleRoss Anderson - 'Temporal Node Centrality in Complex Networks'
Ross Anderson - "Temporal Node Centrality in Complex Networks" This talk is based on joint work with my former student Hyoungshick Kim. Many networks are dynamic in that their topology changes rapidly...
View ArticleCecilia Mascolo - 'A Study of Online Geo-Social Networks: Metrics and...
Cecilia Mascolo - "A study of Online Geo-Social Networks: Metrics and Applications" The use of online social network tools from mobile phones has recently opened the door to very fine grained research...
View ArticleJonathan Nelson - 'Optimal and heuristic models of human information...
Jonathan Nelson - "Optimal and heuristic models of human information acquisition" First, I will overview the three primary research themes at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, at the Max...
View ArticlePhilip Seib - "Real-time diplomacy: politics and power in the social media era"
Philip Seib - "Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era" This talk is based partly on events of the Arab Awakening and ways that social media and social networks affected the...
View ArticleVideos of the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks and Social Media 2012
The videos from the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks and Social Media, that was held in Cambridge, on the 18th and 19th of January 2012, and organised by Yasmin Merali and Pietro Lio, are...
View ArticleJonathan Wright - 'Social Media and the Arab Uprisings: An Agenda for...
Jonathan Wright - "Social Media, Mass Movements and the Arab Uprisings: An Agenda for Research that Goes Beyond Anecdotal Evidence" - Part 1 The Arab uprisings of the last year probably mark the most...
View ArticleJonathan Wright - 'Social Media and the Arab Uprisings: An Agenda for...
Jonathan Wright - "Social Media, Mass Movements and the Arab Uprisings: An Agenda for Research that Goes Beyond Anecdotal Evidence" - Part 2 The Arab uprisings of the last year probably mark the most...
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