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Friday, Sept. 25, 2009



Welcome Talk

Thomas Cooley (Dean NYU Stern School of Business) and Vasant Dhar (Professor and Group Head, Information Systems Group & Director, Center for Digital Economy Research (CeDER))

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Purpose of WIN

Sinan Aral (NYU Stern & MIT)

The Purpose of the WIN Workshop.
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8:30am - 10:00am                Session   A

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University

From Networks to Human Activity Patterns.
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Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs

Social Attention.
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Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania

Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks.
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Panel Discussion


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10:30am - 12:00pm                Session   B

Jure Leskovec, Stanford University.

Community Structure of Large Information Networks.
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Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon.

Graph Mining: Patterns, Generators and Tools.
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Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT.

Reality Mining for Honest Signals, or, How Social Networks Network Best.
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Panel Discussion


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12:15pm - 01:45pm                Lunch and Poster Slam I



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01:45pm - 03:00pm                Session   C

Sinan Aral (NYU Stern and MIT)

Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
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Foster Provost (NYU Stern)

Audience Selection for On-line Brand Advertising: Privacy-friendly Social Network Targeting.
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Arun Sundararajan (NYU Stern)

Spreading the Oprah Effect: The Diffusion of Exogenous Demand Shocks in Recommendation Networks.
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Panel Discussion


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03:30pm - 05:00pm                Session   D

Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)

Modeling and Optimizing Word of Mouth with Markov Logic.
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Matt Jackson (Stanford University)

How Homophily Affects Diffusion and Learning in Networks.
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Duncan Watts (Columbia University).

Using the Web to Do Social Science.
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Panel Discussion


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05:15pm - 06:30pm                Parallel Session   E

Eitan Muller(New York University)

How Consumer Networks’ Acquisition and Acceleration Create Value for Firms.
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Sinan Aral (NYU Stern and MIT)

Networks, Information Flow and Information Worker Productivity.
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Tina Eliassi-Rad (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Literature Search through Mixed-Membership Community Discovery.
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Panel Discussion


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05:15pm - 06:30pm                Parallel Session   F

Tanya Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Southern California)

Finding Structure in Dynamic Networks.
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Ching-Yung Lin(IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

Finding Valuable Information Flows in Networks.
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Barry Wellman (NetLab Sociology, University of Toronto)

Networking on Twitter: A Case Study of a Networked Social Operating System.
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Panel Discussion


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Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009



08:00am - 09:30am                Session   G

John Kleinberg (Cornell University)

Meme-tracking, Diffusion, and the Flow of Information through On-Line Networks.
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Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge)

Robust Networks.
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Damon Centola (MIT).

The New Petri-Dish: Social Science Experiments on the Internet.
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Panel Discussion


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10:00am - 11:30am                Session   H

Ronald S. Burt (University of Chicago).

Bent Preferences: Re-Thinking Agency and Motivation in Social Networks.
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Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)

Information Flow in Trading Networks.
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David Lazer (Harvard University)

Life in the Network: The Coming Age of Computational Social Science.
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Panel Discussion


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11:45pam - 01:15pm                Lunch and Poster Slam II



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01:15pm - 02:30pm                Parallel Session   I

Gal Oestreicher-Singer (Tel Aviv University)

Paying for Content or Paying for Community? Global and Local Network Externalities in Social Media Web Sites.
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César A. Hidalgo (Harvard University)

Networks, Complexity and Economic Development.
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Melissa A. Schilling (NYU Stern)

Technology Shocks, Alliances, and Organizational Fields: Insights From the Global Technology Collaboration Network.
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Panel Discussion


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01:15pm - 02:30pm                Parallel Session   J

Param Vir Singh (Carnegie Mellon University)

Forbidden to Simmelian Ties: Dynamics of Online Expertise Sharing Communities.
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Prem Melville (IBM T. J. Watson)

Social Media Analytics: Channeling the Power of the Blogosphere for Marketing Insight.
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Claudia Perlich (IBM T.J. Watson)

Content-based Link Prediction for Patent Marketing.
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Panel Discussion


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03:00pm - 04:30pm                Session   K

James Fowler (UC San Diego)

Cooperative Behaviour Cascades in Human Social Networks.
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Rachel Kranton (Duke University).

Stock vs. Flow: Social Structure and Incentives to Produce New Information.
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Michael Macy (Cornell University)

The Length of Weak Ties.
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Panel Discussion


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04:45pm - 06:00pm                Parallel Session   L

Mariagiovanna Baccara (NYU Stern)

A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities.
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Ilan Lobel (Microsoft Research)

Bayesian Learning in Social Networks.
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Edward Bishop Smith (University of Chicago)

Doubling Down or Reaching Out: High and Low Status Groups Activate Different Network Structures Under Job Threat.
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Panel Discussion


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01:15pm - 02:30pm                Parallel Session   M

Shawndra Hill University of Pennsylvania)

Friendprints: A Random Graph Approximation Framework for Re-Identification in Social Networks.
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Lise Getoor (University of Maryland)

A Pipelined Approach to Graph Identification.
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Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)

An Investigation of the Distributional Characteristics of Generative Graph Models.
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Panel Discussion


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Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Complex Network Resear..

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Alex Pentland, MIT

Professor Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland is the Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobil..

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Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs

Bernardo Huberman is a Senior HP Fellow and Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and is curren..

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Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon

Christos Faloutsos is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), the Researc..

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Damon Centola, MIT

Damon Centola received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. He is currently a faculty member in Economic Sociology and System Dynamics at MIT. Damon's research focuses on the diffusion o..

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David Lazer, Harvard University

David Lazer is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Governance.  His research interests include ..

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Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research

Duncan Watts is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He is also an adjunct senior research fellow at Columbia University, and an ..

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James Fowler, University of California, San Diego

James Fowler is an Associate Professor in the Center for Wireless and Population Health at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Political Science Depar..

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Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University

Jon Kleinberg is on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, where he holds the position of Tisch University Professor. His research focuses on issues at the interface ..

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Jure Leskovec, Stanford

Jure Leskovec received his Ph.D. from Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in September 2008.  His research focuses on mining and modeling larg..

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Lada Adamic, University of Michigan

Lada A. Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Her research interests center on information dyn..

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Matthew Jackson, Stanford University

Matt Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University.  He is also Director of the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics and Director of the CEME-NSF Decent..

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Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania

Since 2002, Michael Kearns has been a Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds the National Center Chair in Resource Manag..

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Michael Macy, Cornell University

Michael Macy is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Graduate Faculty of the College of Computing and Information Science, and Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory at Cornell University...

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Pedro Domingos, University of Washington

Associate Professor Pedro Domingos of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington is the author or co-author of over 150 technical publications in machine l..

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Rachel Kranton, Duke University

Rachel Kranton is Professor of Economics at Duke University. She studies how institutions, networks, and the social setting affect economic outcomes. Her teaching and research span several fields i..

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Ronald Burt, University of Chicago

Ronald Burt, the Hobart Williams Professor of Psychology and Strategy at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, studies the social structure of competitive advantage in careers, organ..

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Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge

Sanjeev Goyal is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College. He is a pioneer in the economic study of networks, with research published in leading journals..

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Key Dates
Workshop Dates:
Sept 25th-26th, 2009.
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Aug. 20, 2009.
Notification to Authors:
Sept. 1, 2009.
Final Abstract Submission for Publication in Workshop Notes:
Sept. 15, 2009.
Early Registration Deadline:
Sept. 10, 2009.
Onsite Registration:
Sept. 25, 2009
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