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CASCI Lab News

Year Details
2024

New Project : Luis Rocha will be leading the ERA Chair project “CBeRa: Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems for Advancing Biomedical Research” in Portugal in a great international collaboration arrangement. See also Oito equipas garantem 20 milhões de euros para alavancar ciência portuguesa. Público.

2024

Lab Opening: Post-doctoral Fellow on Complex Networks for the project “Redundancy effects on spread and control in network dynamics: applications in computational biomedicine” (2022.09122.PTDC, DOI: 10.54499/2022.09122.PTDC. ), funded by the undação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Deadline: December 30th, 2024. More information and application instructions on the CBR Site.
2024

Lab Opening: Scientific Project Coordinator for the ERA Chair project “CBeRa: Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems for Advancing Biomedical Research” (GA 101186558, HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01), funded by the European Commission. Deadline: December 23rd, 2024. More information and application instructions on the CBR Site and EURAXESS.
2024

PhD Defense: Felipe Xavier Costa defended "Leveraging Redundancy As A Link Between Spreading Dynamics On And Of Networks in the Physics Department of the University at Albany (SUNY), in August 2024. Felipe was supervised by Luis Rocha. Dr. Costa’s research investigates how redundancy in heterogeneous, multivariate dynamical systems can connect how dynamics affect network topology and which pathways are necessary for spreading phenomena on networks and complex nonlinear dynamics of automata networks (with node dynamics). Felipe is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Católica Biomedical Research Center.

Felipe Costa
2024

MS Defense: Miguel Bernardo Pereira defended "Distance Backbones of Weighted Graphs in the Applied mathematics Program of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, in December 2023. Felipe was supervised by Luis Rocha. Bernardo was co-supervised by Luis Rocha and Pedro Martins Rodrigues. Mr. Pereira's research deals with the topic of sparsification of weighted graphs using distance backbones of a weighted graph. He examined how these backbones preserve characteristics of epidemiological simulations carried out onsocial networks using Susceptible-Infected and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered models. Bernardo is now a research assistant and PhD Student at the University of Turin in Italy.

Miguel Bernardo Pereira

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Media Appearances

Year Reference
2025

L.M. Rocha [2025]. Migrante pluripatriótico na nova era do nacionalismo. Público . January 2, 2025. Preprint at medium.
2024

December 2nd, 2024. Oito equipas garantem 20 milhões de euros para alavancar ciência portuguesa. Público . December 2, 2024. Press Release in English also available.
2024

October 14th, 2024. AI, Cybernetics, and Complexity: unpacking the 2024 Nobel Prizes. Complexity Thoughts. Also available as podcast.
2024

October 10th, 2024. How to build a sperm cell. Magazine Digest for eLife.
2024

February 14th, 2024. Love is in the Air Pressure. Off the Radar Podcast from the National Weather Desk.
2024

L.M. Rocha [2024]. Polimedicação é pior em idosos e mulheres, mas pode-se melhorar com análise de dados. Público . January 31, 2024.

2023

December 15th, 2023. Life may be less chaotic than we thought, say physicists. New Scientist.
2023

L.M. Rocha [2023]. Jovens reduzidos a um número. Público . November 27, 2023. Longer version with additional data at Medium.
2023

September 22nd, 2023. The Calendar of Human Fertility Is Changing in The Atlantic. Reprint.
2023

June 9th, 2023. 10 de Junho: elogios, emigrantes e exageros. Interview regarding Portuguese emigration and related article at Programa Contra-Corrente - Radio Observador.
2023

March 6th, 2023. Cómo rastrear y frenar la propagación de enfermedades infecciosas. laSexta.
2023

March 3rd, 2023. Esqueleto de salvação. Expresso.
2023

February 24-27th, 2023. A simpler way to track the spread of infectious diseases. The Print, Technology Networks, Reporter Health, MedicalXpress, EurekaAlert, etc.
2022

April 7th, 2022. As redes sociais podem prevenir a morte súbita por epilepsia?. National Geographic.
2022

March 1st, 2022. IGC and Binghamton University Press Release: Facebook analysis to prevent epilepsy-related deaths. Coverage of our Epilepsy & Behavior paper "Small cohort of patients with epilepsy showed increased activity on Facebook before sudden unexpected death": CNN Portugal, Observador, RTP,Jornal Online, etc.
2022

L.M. Rocha [2022]. Ser emigrante português é ser cidadão de 10.ª classe e deixa muitos democraticamente apátridas. Público . February 22, 2022.
2021

March 16th, 2021. IGC Press Release and IU Press Release: Uncovering the “master switches” of biochemical networks can explain the effects of drugs in the destruction of cancer cells. Coverage of our PNAS paper and cover "The effective graph reveals redundancy, canalization, and control pathways in biochemical regulation and signaling": Publico, Sabado, Jornal Economico, etc.
2021

February 18, 2021. O sexo dos anjos, ou como a complexidade das pandemias exige pensamento sistémico. Público . Longer Version at Medium.
2021

January 20, 2021.Lixívia ideológica não resolve a pandemia. Público .

2020

November 22, 2020. Privacy apocalypse or data science for the common good? Preparing Western Nations for Pandemics to Come . Towards data science .

2020

October 25, 2020. Apocalípticos da privacidade vs. StayAway Covid e a ciência de dados para o bem comum. Observador .
2020

October 23, 2020.Named Professorship At Watson College Honors Systems Science Pioneer: Luis Rocha, PhD '97, to start next fall as first George Klir Professor in Systems Science. Binghamton News .

2020

March 31, 2020. Público: É necessário mais investimento em ciência de complexidade e resiliência para lidar com pandemias. Print Version.

2019

November 22nd, 2019. G1 - Globo News: Mulheres e idosos têm maior risco de interação medicamentosa.
2019

August 12th, 2019. IU Press Release: Women and elderly at higher risk of dangerous drug interactions. Coverage of our NPJ Digital Medicine study of city-wide drug interactions and gender and age biases on English-speaking media: Futurity, Medical X Press, Newswise, Medical News, etc.
2019

August 2nd, 2019. Lusa Agency: Mulheres são 60% mais afetadas por interação de medicamentos. Wide coverage of our NPJ Digital Medicine study of city-wide drug interactions and gender and age biases on Portuguese-speaking media: Observador, TSF, Diário de Noticias,, SIC Noticias, Noticias ao Minuto, SAPO, SOL, etc.
2019

May 31, 2019. Indianapolis Business Journal: Universities focus on training students in AI (2019 Innovation Issue)
2018

December 21, 2018. Reuters: More Google searches for sexual harassment facts since #MeToo
2018

December 20, 2018. Vice News, Broadly: Why Do the Holidays Make Us So Horny?
2018

December 16, 2018. Publico: Pesquisas por pornografia aumentam no Natal. “Há uma alegria no ar”
2018

October 17-18, 2018. SICE News: Team led by Rocha awarded $1.55 million NIH grant to improve chronic-disease management; EurekAlert!:"NIH awards $1.55 million to Indiana University to improve chronic-disease management:; NewsWise: "NIH awards Indiana University $1.55M to improve chronic-disease management".
2018

Antena Aberta: Inteligência Artificial. April 18, 2018. Prof. Luis Rocha talks about Artificial Intelligence (at 25'; in Portuguese).
2017

December 21, 2017. "Study finds online interest in sex rises at Christmas, with more births nine months later". Wide coverage of our paper "Human Sexual Cycles are Driven by Culture and Match Collective Moods" in many venues such as The Independent, Time, Publico, Health, GizModo, ScienceDaily, Phys.org, The National Post, DailyMail, The Hindustan Times, Men's Fitness, Mother Jones, IndyStar, The Times, ArsTechnica, Newsweek, The Sun, Drive with Yasmeen Khan (at 17:30) (audio of interview), etc. Discussion of the paper was a top trending topic on Reddit. Watch a video summarizing the research, or listen to the Scientific American Podcast (also available the full audio of Luis Rocha's interview with Scientific American).
2017

IU News. September 05, 2017. Informatics professors create complex systems on the dance floor.
2017

Inside Indiana Business with Gerry Dick. August 23, 2017. NSF Grant to Fund Dual Ph.D. Program.
2017

IU News. August 23, 2017. NSF awards IU $3 million to train researchers 'fluent' in complex networks and data. Press release.
2017

National Science Foundation. July 25, 2017. NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program makes 17 new awards including ours in Interdisciplinary Training in Complex Networks and Systems. Press Release.
2017

Audio spot at Radio Oxigêncio on FLAD Fellowship from the Luso-American Development Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Listen to the audio (in portuguese). See the Press Release here.
2016

PR Newswire. October 3, 2016. Social Media is a Promising New Frontier for Insights Into Large-scale Medical and Treatment Patterns Thanks to Indiana University's School of Informatics and Computing. Watch the video
2016

CNETS, March 4, 2016. Rocha Receives Fulbright Scholarship.
2016

SoIC News, January 22, 2016. SoIC study finds Instagram is a source to uncover drug interactions and adverse reactions.
2015

Computational Fact-Checking: Publico, Nature News, ACM Tech news, Wired, Deutschlandfunk, GCN, Pacific Standard, Phys.org, Scientific Computing, GizModo, Big Think, IU Press Release.

2015

Nova , Italy, February 1, 2015: "Il vero e il falso tweet."
2015

EuroScientist, January 28, 2015: "When Real Science Falls Short In Hollywood."

2014

Scientists Create Cybernetic Links Between People—by DJing. Nautilus. By V. GEWIN, April 16, 2014
2013

RDP-Antena 2, Portugal. Three episodes of the weekly science program devoted to Alan Turing and AI: December 24 and 31, 2012 and January 7, 2013 (in Portuguese). These interviews were in the context of The Alan Turing Centenary Symposium, whose English videocast is available
2012

Público, Portugal, December 27, 2012: "O cérebro é uma máquina de Turing? E os computadores ficarão inteligentes?". Reprint available (pdf)
2012

La Repubblica, Italy: "L'Italia, un paese felice e lo scrive su Facebook", December 23th, 2011.
2010

Jornal de Letras, Portugal: on April 6th, 2010: Interview: "Somos todos Cyborgs." (pdf)
2010

RTP2 (Bairro Alto), Portugal: on January 26th, 2010: Long interview to Portuguese TV network.
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BBC Digital Planet, U.K.: World Service interview about immune-inspired spam-detection system.
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SIC News, Portugal: TV interview about immune-inspired spam-detection system.
2008

Rádio Renascença, Portugal: Radio interview about immune-inspired spam-detection system, October 5, 2008.
2008

L'atelier, France: "Spams et bacteries : meme combat", August 22th, 2008.
2008

Tecnomania, Spain: "Podemos hacer software que nazca a la vida?", August 12th, 2008.
2008

Ciência Hoje, Portugal: "Cientistas portugueses criaram aspirador de lixo electronico", August 11th, 2008.
2008

Portuguese Press on August 7th, 2008: Correio da Manhã (p20), Diario de Notícias (p15), Jornal de Notícias (p5), Público (p8), etc.
2008

Silicon Republic, Ireland: "Fighting spam and thinking robots -- bio-inspired AI", August 6th, 2008.
2008

The Daily Telegraph, U.K.: "Can we make software that comes to life?", August 5th, 2008.
2008

Other International Press on August 5-6t, 2008. ACM TechNews (USA), Innovations Report (Germany), Science Daily (USA), Slashdot (USA), AlphaGalileo (European Union), SiloBreaker (UK), etc.
2007

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data, New York Times, December 17, 2007. A description of work pursued with Eliot Smith.
2007

Tecendo Redes Para A Biologia Computacional, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian Newsletter, September 2007
2006

Luis Rocha: FLAD and the Portuguese Scientists in America, Ciencia Hoje, October 1, 2006
2006

Aposta na investigação em Portugal, Correio da Manha, June 22, 2006
2006

IGC e FLAD criam laboratório de biologia computacional, Ciencia Hoje, June 22, 2006
2006

Biologia Computacional: Parceria luso-americana para co-laboratório, Lusa News Agency, June 21, 2006
2006

Interview (asf) given to Complexity Digest at the Alife X Conference.
2006

IU to showcase AI technology. Indiana Daily Student: Thursday, June 1, 2006
2006

The facts of Artificial Life. Research at Indiana University: Thursday, June 1, 2006
2006

Luis Rocha, deFrente: May 29, 2006
2006

Indiana noteworthy, Indystar.com: May 22, 2006
2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, Laboratorytalk: May 22, 2006
2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, School of Informatics Press Release: May 22, 2006
2006

Integrating artificial life simulation with synthetic biology, biohealthmathematics.com: May 19, 2006
2006

Scientists to Get ‘Alife’ at International Conference. Techpoint, March 15, 2006
2006

Luís Rocha preside a conferência sobre duas décadas de Vida Artificial, Ciencia Hoje, March 15, 2006 Portugal
2006

Artificial life conference set for June, IU Home pages, March 10, 2006
2006

Scientists to Get ‘Alife’ at International Conference, Press Release, February 2006.
2015

Interview (asf video) given to Complexity Digest at the Artificial Life 9 Conference, Boston, MA, 04/09/12-15.
2004

Mentes Lusas. in Expresso, Portugal, July 2004.
2002

Segment from the 2010 science program of the Portuguese National Television channel RTP2, November, 2002. For faster and slower connections
2002

Newspaper article "Insetos, neurônios e sistema imunológico. Esses são os modelos das redes do futuro" in O Estado de Sao Paulo, September 16, 2002. There is also a piece about the Global Brain and Adaptive Webs where my work is mentioned, as well as a translation of the Washignton Post article below.

2002

Newspaper article "Web May Hold the Key to Achieving Artificial Intelligence" in The Washington Post, September 6, 2002; Page A01. Pretty much the same article as"Creating a smarter computer" in the MSNBC web site.
2002

Newspaper article "O português de Los Alamos" in Expresso, Portugal, August 31, 2002. Larger version of the article in the reporter's web site.
2002

Newspaper article "Nova robótica apresenta-se em Lisboa" in Expresso, Portugal, August 17, 2002.

2002

Interview (real video) given to Complexity Digest at the NECSI Complex Systems Conference.
2001

Magazine article "Evolution and scientific literature: towards a decentralized adaptive web" in Nature: WebDebates, 2001.


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Events

See also videos of recent invited talks.

Catolica Biomedical Research Day
November 14, 2024. Sintra, Portugal

Conference on Complex Systems 2024
September 2-6, 2024. Exeter, UK.

Social Media Mining for Health at AMIA 2023
November 11, 2023. New Orleans, USA.

International School and Conference on Network Science
July 11, 2023. Vienna, Austria.

School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Awards
April 12, 2019. Bloomington, Indiana

Complex Networks and Systems NSF-NRT Research Showcase
March 22, 2019. Bloomington, Indiana

Talk at Instituto Técnico de Lisboa
July 04, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal

Talk at NOVA School of Business and Finance
June 29, 2018. Lisbon, Portugal

International School and Conference on Network Science - NetSci18
June 11-15, 2018. Paris, France

Semana de la Complejidad @ C3 UNAM
January 31, 2018. Mexico City, Mexico

Conference on Complex Systems
September 19-22, 2016. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Morfogénese Musical
May 06-07, 2016. Museu da Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal

See the project page for more details including several videos and materials.

Indiana University Network Science Institute Opening Ceremony
April 23, 2016. Bloomington, Indiana

The 5th Translational Bioinformatics Conference
November 7-9, 2015. Tokyo, Japan

Conference on Complex Systems
September 28-October 01, 2015. Temple, Arizona

Check out the CNETS team research and awards at CCS 2015.

International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
June 08-11, 2015. Helsinki, Finland

Artemy Kolchinsky's Defense
April 28, 2015. Bloomington, Indiana

Congratulations to Artemy Kolchinsky a brand new PhD in 2015 in the Complex Systems track of the Informatics PhD Program.

Artemy’s PhD Dissertation is entittled "Measuring Scales: Integration and Modularity in Complex Systems". Artemy is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute

Dia da Deliberação in the Fundação Champalimaud
October 25, 2014. Lisbon, Portugal

Fotos: Rodrigo Gatinho

Social activities of the International interdisciplinary seminar on new robotics, evolution and embodied cognition (IISREEC)
Organized by Fernando Almeida e Costa and Luis M. Rocha. November 12-15, 2002. Lisbon, Portugal

Participants shown in video: Mark Bedau, Randall D. Beer, Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney Brooks, Andy Clark, Fernando Almeida e Costa, Antonio Coutinho, Dario Floreano, Inman Harvey, Phil Husbands, Pekka Karp, Jeffrey Krichmar, Rolf Pfeifer, Luis M. Rocha, Linda Smith, Esther Thelen, Timothy van Gelder, Michael Wheeler, Janet Wiles.

Details of the Workshop: here. Papers of the workshop published in:
Almeida e Costa, F. and Rocha, Luis M. (Eds.) [2005]. Special Issue on Embodied and Situated Cognition. Artificial Life. 11 (1-2).



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Conference Organization

Year Reference
2019

Complex Networks 2019: 8th Int. Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, December 9- 12, Lisbon, Portugal.
2019

Charting interdisciplinary research opportunities between data and life sciences, Instituto Gulbenkiande Ciencia, Oeiras and ISI Foundation, March 6-7th, Oeiras, Portugal.
2018

Complex Networks 2018: 7th Int. Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, December 11- 13, Cambridge, UK.
2016

Interdisciplinarity, networks, data and complex systems: promise and challenges, Special session @ Ciência 2016: Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, 4 a 6 de Julho, Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Portugal.
2012

The Alan Turing Centenary Symposium, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, December 11, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal. A videocast of the symposium is available
2007

9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 07), September 10-14, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
2007

Multi-Agents for modelling Complex Systems (MA4CS), Satellite Conference of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'07), Dresden, Germany, October 5-6, 2007
2006

The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Alife X), June 3-7, 2006, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington
2005

European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), Monday 5th to Friday 9th September 2005 University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent (UK). Includes the Active agents and their environments as dynamical systems Workshop
2005

12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, 05 to 08 December, 2005. 2nd Portuguese Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA 2005)
2005

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO 2005), Washington, DC, June 25 - 29, 2005.
2004

Agent-Based Simulation 5, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-5 May 2004.
2003

Genetic Regulatory Networks: Theory and Practice, Canberra, Australia, 8th - 12th December 2003.
2003

Oeiras Mathematical and Computational Biology Workshop, June 20, 2003, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.
2002

International interdisciplinary seminar on new robotics, evolution and embodied cognition. Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-15, 2002. Special Issue of Artificial Life.


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Relevant Conference and Special Issue Call for Papers (CFPs)

Conference Name Date Location Important Information
Complex Networks 2020 9th Int. Conference on Complex Networks & their Applications 1-2 Dec 2020 Madrid, Spain

Paper deadline: Sept 02, 2020
WI-IAT'20 The 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 10-13 December 2020 Melbourne, Australia

Paper deadline: Aug 30th, 2020
Complex Networks and Systems Workshop and School from socio-economics to biology and brain 12-18 July 2020 Lipari, Italy

Application deadline: July 1st, 2020
Complex Networks 2019 8th Int. Conference on Complex Networks & their Applications 8-11 Dec 2019 Lisbon, Portugal

Paper deadline: Sept 04, 2019
Complex Networks 2018 7th Int. Conference on Complex Networks & their Applications 11-13 Dec 2018 Cambridge, UK

Paper deadline: Sept 04, 2018
CCS'18 The Conference on Complex Systems 2018 September 23-28, 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece

New abstract deadline: March 17, 2017
NetSci 2018 International School and Conference on Network Science June 11-15, 2018 Paris, France

Personalized Medicine in the Era of Big Data satelity: deadline: Mar 31, 2018.
GECCO 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 15-19, 2018 Kyoto, Japan

Paper due: November 7, 2017
PLOS cross-journal Call Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine: A PLOS cross-journal Call for Papers May 25, 2018 Online

PSB 2018 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing Jan 3-7 2018 Lyon, France

Paper due: August 01, 2017
Complex Networks 2017 6th Int. Conference on Complex Networks & their Applications 29 Nov-01 Dec 2017 Lyon, France

Paper deadline: Sept 04, 2017
PhysCon2017 8th International Conference on Physics and Control 17-19 July 2017 Florence, Italy

Paper deadline: March 30, 2017
LANET 2017 1st Latin American Conference on Complex Networks 25-29 September, 2017 Puebla, Mexico

Abstract deadline: April 28, 2017
ECAL 2017 14th European Conference on Artificial Life 4-8 September, 2017 Lyon, France

Paper deadline: April 9, 2017
CCS'17 The Conference on Complex Systems 2017 September 17-22, 2017 Cancun, Mexico

New abstract deadline: March 17, 2017
IEEE Alife 2017 2017 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life Nov. 27-Dec. 1, 2017 Honolulu, Hawaii

Paper deadline: July 2, 2017
NetSci 2017 International School and Conference on Network Science June 21-23, 2017 Indianapolis, Indiana

Controlling Complex Systems satelity: deadline: Feb 12, 2017.
ICCS 2017 International Conference on Computational Science June 12-14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Submission deadline: January 31, 2017
Automata 2017 Inter. Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems June 7 - 9, 2017 Milan, Italy

Submission deadline: February 19, 2017
CNA 2016 5th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications November 30 - December 02 2016 Milan, Italy

Submission Deadline: September 5, 2016
IEEE SSCI 2016 The 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence December 6-9 2016 Athens, Greece

Submission Deadline: July 18, 2016
CCS 2016 2016 Conference on Complex Systems 19-22 September 2016​ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2016
IEEE SMC 2016 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics October 9-12, 2016 Budapest, Hungary

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2016
WI'16 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2016 October 13-16, 2016 Omaha, Nebraska

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2016
GECCO 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 20-24, 2016 Denver, Colorado, USA

Papers due: February 3, 2016
IC2S2 2016 International Conference on Computational Social Science June 23-26, 2016 Evanston, IL USA

Abstracts due: January 31, 2016
PAAMS 2016 14th Int. Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems June 1-3, 2016 Sevilla, Spain

Papers due: January 11, 2016
MSM’2016 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media April 12, 2016 Montreal, Canada.

Papers due: Deceber 22, 2015
OSSM 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium on Observational Studies through Social Media and Other Human-Generated Content March 21-23, 2016 Stanford University

4-page abstracts due: October 9, 2015

Full list in CV


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