C-SIDE2018: ICWSM Workshop on Computational Social Science of Innovation Diffusion and Evolution (C-SIDE) ICWSM Stanford, CA, United States, June 28, 2018 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/csideworkshop2018/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cside2018 |
Submission deadline | May 5, 2018 |
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Computational Social Science of Innovation Diffusion and Evolution (C-SIDE) at ICWSM 2018
June 25th, 2018
Stanford, California, USA
https://sites.google.com/view/csideworkshop2018/home
Although diffusion of ideas and memes has a rich history in quantitative social science, online platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow provide a unique view into innovation and collaboration at a global scale. What does the behavior on online collaborative platforms tell us about how people leverage the help of others to create innovation and choose which technology to adopt?
This workshop seeks to compare and contrast the diffusion of traditional social media information e.g., on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram with diffusion of technical approaches and software innovations. Because utilization of technical collaboration platforms arises from different user needs than traditional social media, behavioral models may require revalidation in this alternative context. We will explore behavioral models that may be specific to platforms such as GitHub, and we will discuss ways of adapting existing social-media based models to these technical tasks.
This half-day workshop will consist of keynote talks, contributed talks, a poster session, and a panel discussion on the open challenges in mapping behavioral models from social media.
We encourage submissions that focus on but are not limited to:
- Applications and theory of innovation diffusion
- Comparisons of behavior between social media and collaborative platforms
- Explorations of user productivity, engagement, virality, reputation, trust, influence, etc.
- Models of how technology ecosystems evolve
- Diffusion of competing technologies
- Explorations of recurrence, gatekeepers, cascades and persistent minorities on GitHub
Submitted papers should be 4-6 pages and follow AAAI formatting guidelines. Formatting instructions are available via the 2018 AAAI Press Author Kit:
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/AuthorKit18.zip
Authors whose papers are accepted to the workshop will be invited to present their work in a short talk or to participate in a poster session.
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cside2018
For more information, please visit our website at https://sites.google.com/view/csideworkshop2018/home
Important Dates:
Deadline for paper submission: May 5, 2018
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2018
Workshop Day: June 25, 2018
Organizers:
Nathan Hodas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Svitlana Volkova, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Emily Grace, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame