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WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, 2012

TECHNICAL SESSION 1: NETWORK METRICS AND MODELS

CHAIR: Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark)

10:20    Hybrid Centrality Measures for Binary and Weighted Networks. Alireza Abbasi, Liaquat Hossain and Kenneth Chung

10:40    A growing model for scale-free networks embedded in hyperbolic metric spaces. Giuseppe Mangioni and Antonio Lima

11:00    The Robustness of Balanced Boolean Networks. Ming Liu and Elena Dubrova

11:20    Emergence of Hourglass-Shaped Structures in the Evolution of Layered Networks. Saamer Akhshabi and Constantine Dovrolis

11:40    Hirsch index as a network centrality measure. Mônica Campiteli, Adriano J. Holanda, Paulo Soles, Leonardo Soares and Osame Kinouchi

TECHNICAL SESSION 2: AGENTS AND COMMUNICATION

CHAIR: Giuseppe Mangioni (University of Catania, Italy)

14:10    Structural Evolution in Knowledge Transfer Network: An Agent-based Model. Haoxiang Xia, Yanyan Du and Zhaoguo Xuan

14:30    Using Network Science to Define a Dynamic Communication Topology for Particle Swarm Optimizers. Marcos A. C. Oliveira Junior, Carmelo J. A. Bastos Filho and Ronaldo Menezes

14:50    Weak Ties in Complex Wireless Communication Networks. Amanda Leonel, Carlos H. C. Ribeiro and Matthias R. Brust

TECHNICAL SESSION 3: EPIDEMICS, FADS AND INFLUENCE

CHAIR: Julia Poncela Casasnovas (Northwestern University, USA)

15:30    Analysis of Tipping Points for Threshold Models on Arbitrary Networks. Hyuna Kim, Seulki Lee and Kyomin Jung

15:50    A Model for Knowledge Transfer in a Production Chain.. Luiz Bevilacqua, Augusto Galeão and Ana-Paula Rio-Doce

16:10    Modeling annual Supreme Court influence: The role of citation practices and judicial tenure in determining precedent network growth. Ryan Whalen

16:30    IRIE: A Scalable Influence Maximization Algorithm in Social Networks. Kyomin Jung, Wooram Heo and Wei Chen

16:50    Tipping Point of Information Spreading in Random Clustered Networks with Heterogeneous Contact Rates. Sungsu Lim and Kyomin Jung

17:10    Multiscale Algorithms for Analysis and Optimization Problems on Large Networks. Ilya Safro

THURSDAY MARCH 8, 2012

TECHNICAL SESSION 4: COMMUNITIES, CLUSTERS AND PARTITIONS

CHAIR: My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)

10:20    A Comparison of Methods for Community Detection in Large Scale Networks. Vinícius Vieira and Alexandre Evsukoff

10:40    Stable community cores in complex networks. Massoud Seifi, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Ivan Junier, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier and Svilen Iskrov

11:00    An Empirical Study of the Relation Between Community Structure and Transitivity. Keziban Orman, Vincent Labatut and Hocine Cherifi

11:20    Detecting Overlapping Communities in Complex Networks Using Swarm Intelligence for Multi-Threaded Label Propagation. Bradley Rees and Keith Gallagher

11:40    Using Network Sciences in Music Recommendation A case study with Brazilian Music. Charith Gunaratna, Monali Patel and Ronaldo Menezes

12:00    A Genetic Algorithm to Partition Weighted Planar Graphs in Which the Weight of Nodes Follows a Power Law. Rodrigo Palheta and Vasco Furtado

TECHNICAL SESSION 5: EMERGENCE IN NETWORKS

CHAIR: Gourab Ghoshal (Northeastern University/MIT, USA)

14:10    Socio-dynamic discrete choice on networks in space: Impact of initial conditions, network size and connectivity on emergent outcomes in a simple nested logit model. Elenna Dugundji and Laszlo Gulyas

14:30    Tipping Points of Diehards in Social Consensus on Large Random Networks. Weituo Zhang, Chjan Lim, Gyorgy Korniss, Bolek Szymanski, Sameet Sreenivasan and Jerry Xie

14:50    Signaling Conventions in Small-World Networks. Roland Mühlenbernd and Michael Franke

15:10    The birth of retweeting conventions in Twitter. Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Farshad Kooti, Winter A. Mason and Haeryun Yang

TECHNICAL SESSION 6: SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND NETWORKS

CHAIR: Kevin Huggins (West Point US Military Academy, USA)

15:50    The effect of committed groups on consensus formation in social networks. Sameet Sreenivasan, Jierui Xie, Weituo Zhang, Chjan Lim, Jeff Emenheiser, Matt Kirby, Boleslaw Szymanski and Gyorgy Korniss

16:10    Social features of online networks: the strength of intermediary ties in online social media. Premyslaw A. Grabowicz, Jose Javier Ramasco, Esteban Moro, Josep M. Pujol and Victor M. Eguiluz

16:30    Twitter follow links reveal bicameral landscape of newspapers. Jisun An, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi and Jon Crowcroft

16:50    Gathering Metrics from Software Repositories using Network Analysis. Andrew Dittrich, Mehmet Gunes and Sergiu Dascalu

17:10    The Social Structure of Organ Transplantation in the United States. Srividhya Venugopal, Evan Stoner, Martin Cadeiras and Ronaldo Menezes

17:30    The Effect of Citations to Collaboration Networks. Pramod Divakarmurthy and Ronaldo Menezes

FRIDAY MARCH 9, 2012

TECHNICAL SESSION 7: NETWORKS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

CHAIR: Neil Johnson (University of Miami, USA)

11:00    Identification of Racial Disparities in Organ Transplantation using Network Sciences. Srividhya Venugopal, Martin Cadeiras and Ronaldo Menezes

11:20    A drug-target network mapped onto the metabolic network as a tool for drug design. Mônica Campiteli, Matheus Viana, Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues and Luciano da Fontoura Costa

11:40    A novel framework for complex networks and chronic diseases. Philippe Giabbanelli

12:00    Centrality and Network Analysis in a Natural Perturbed Ecosystem. Gilberto Pereira, Fatima Santos and Nelson Ebecken

TECHNICAL SESSION 8: APPLICATIONS OF NETWORKS

CHAIR: Fernando Buarque (State University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

15:30    The explanatory power of relations and an application to an economic network. Mauricio Monsalve

15:50    The Network of Driving Forces of Global Environmental Change. Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo, Reinette Biggs and Garry Peterson

16:10    Evaluation of Coupled ClimateModels Using Network Analysis. Ilias Foudalis, Constantine Dovrolis and Annalisa Bracco

16:30    Mapping Emerging News Networks: A Case Study of the San Francisco Bay Area. Daniel Ramos, Mehmet Gunes, Donica Mensing and David M. Ryfe

16:50    Complex Network for Modeling Crime Reports in Collaborative Maps. Carlos Caminha, Vasco Furtado and Bruno Muniz

17:10    Identifying critical traffic jam areas with node centralities Interference and Robustness. Giovanni Scardoni and Carlo Laudanna

17:30    Influence Maximization for Advertising in Multi-agent Markets. Mahsa Maghami and Gita Sukthankar

LIST OF POSTERS

1. • Measuring a Category-based Blogosphere. Priya Saha and Ronaldo Menezes
   

2. • Vulnerability-aware architecture for a tactical, mobile cloud. Anne-Laure Jousselme, Kevin Huggins, Nicolas Léchevin, Dominic Larkin and Patrick Maupin
   

3. • Migration, Communication and Social Networks - An Agent-based Social Simulation. Hugo Barbosa Filho, Fernando B. De Lima Neto and Wilson Fusco
   

4. • Software Collaboration Networks. Christopher Zachor and Mehmet Gunes
   

5. • Ripple Effects: Small-Scale Investigations Into the Sustain-ability of Ocean Science Education Networks. Robert Chen, Catherine Cramer, Pam Dibona, Russell Faux and Stephen Uzzo
   

6. • Revealing the Structure of Programming Online Competitions. Hilary Miller, Kesann Walrond-Mcclean and Ronaldo Menezes
   

7. • Emerging Social Structure and Dynamics from Twitter’s Conversation. Alfredo Morales, F. Javier Borondo, Juan Carlos Losada and Rosa M. Benito
   

8. • Distributed flow optimization and cascading effects in weighted complex networks. Andrea Asztalos, Sameet Sreenivasan, Boleslaw Szymanski and Gyorgy Korniss
   

9. • Facebook Relationships in the Workplace. Cristina Robles and Jennifer Golbeck
   

10. • SubCallosal Cingulate Gyrus Is The Most Central Region In The Network Of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Saeideh Bakhshi, David Gutman and Constantine Dovrolis
    

11. • Micro-level Dynamics of Contagion in Macro-level Networks: Global Trade 1995-2008. Otto Koppius and Wouter Vermeer
    

12. • Work & Play: Simulating language contact with dynamic networks. Roland Muehlenbernd and Jason Quinley
    

13. • A network approach to the orientation problem in genome assembly. Karl Schmitt, Michelle Girvan, James Yorke and Alexsey Zimmin
    

14. • Spread of influence with multiple initiators. P. Singh, S. Sreenivasan, B. Szymanski and G. Korniss
    

15. • Construction of Information Campaign Networks. Tommy Nguyen and Boleslaw Szymanski
    

16. • Statistical Complex Analysis of Taxi Mobility in San Francisco. Oleguer Sagarra and Albert Diaz-Guilera
    

17. • Rigid Network Structure Underlies Cognitive Inflexibility in Mature Adults. Malaak Nasser Moussa, Linda Porrino, Satoru Hayasaka, Jonathan Burdette and Paul Laurienti
    

18. • Inter event studies on the OFC model for earthquakes. Douglas S. R. Ferreira, Marco A. E. Santo and Andrés R. R. Papa
    

19. • The Smart Grid's Last Mile as a Complex Network. Giuliano Andrea Pagani and Marco Aiello
    

20. • Multiplexity-facilitated cascades in networks. Charlie Brummitt, Kyu-Min Lee and Kwang-Il Goh
    

21. • Discovering the Geography of Human Movements. Michele Coscia, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi, Salvatore RInzivillo