CONFERENCE PROGRAM 

Preliminary Program is available (see below).
The program is subject to change. However, any change will not affect the day of your presentation to allow you to make your travel plans.

​​PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

​	Tuesday, April 22	Wednesday, April 23​	Thursday, April 24​	Friday, April 25
09:00 - 09:20	Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Opening Remarks	Announcements	Announcements	Announcements
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote José S. Andrade Jr.	Keynote Celia Anteneodo	Keynote Philipp Lorenz-Spreen	Keynote Carmen Cabrera-Arnau
10:30 - 11:30	Session 1 ​Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures I	Session 5 Applications of Network Science I	Session 9 Computational Social Science II	Session 13 Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility III
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 2   Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility I​	Session 6  Computational Social Science I​	Session 10 ​Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures III	Session 14 Epidemics & Contagion III
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Panel discussion Network Science, ​Complex Systems, and AI​	Keynote Esteban Moro	Keynote Francisca Ortiz-Ruiz	PhD Showcase
15:30 - 16:30	Session 3  Dynamics on and of Networks I	Session 7 Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures II​​	Session 11 Epidemics & Contagion II​	Session 15 Dynamics on and of Networks II
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Session 4 Epidemics & Contagion I	Session 8 Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility II	Session 12 Applications of Network Science II	​Closing Remarks and Awards​
20:00	Reception	Conference Dinner

​	DAY 1: Tuesday, April 22
09:00 - 09:20	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Opening Remarks
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote: José S. Andrade Jr. Title: From Correlations to “Interactions”: Applications of Maximum Entropy Models to Finance and Neuroscience ​​ Chair: TBA
10:30 - 11:30	Session 1: ​Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures I Chair: TBA Michiel Rollier, Lucas Oliveira, Aisling Daly, Odemir Bruno, Jan Baetens. Small changes with large impact: robustness of life-like discrete dynamical models on complex networks. Ofer Biham. Phase transition in networks that evolve via a combination of preferential attachment and random node deletion. Sadamori  Kojaku. Implicit degree bias in the link prediction task.​ Lucas Oliveira, Odemir Bruno. Simulating Network Automata Using Graph Convolution.
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 2: Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility I Chair: TBA Gabriel Cwilich. Resilience of the US banking network. Kike Fonton. Empowering Facebook data towards improved estimates of emigration from Africa. ​Andrew Renninger. Spanish heat waves reduce discretionary mobility and constrain poorer and older populations. Marta González. Planning the Electric Vehicle Transition by Integrating Spatial Information and Social Networks​
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Panel Discussion Title: Network Science, Complex Systems, and AI ​Chair:  TBA
15:30 - 16:30	Session 3: Dynamics on and of Networks I ​Chair: TBA​ Santiago Lamata Otín. Hyperedge overlap drives collective behaviors in higher-order dynamical systems. Felipe Costa, Olaf Sporns, Luis Rocha. The metric backbone of brain networks across lifespan and hemispheres. Maria Gabriella Basílio, Daniel Figueiredo. Population dynamics in the global coral–symbiont network under temperature variations. Adrian Zachariae, Pascal Klamser, Dirk Brockmann. Clonal Interference in the World Aviation Network: Understanding Evolutionary Dynamics in a Globalized World.
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	​Session 4: Epidemics & Contagion I Chair: TBA David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Gourab Ghoshal. Interplay between population density and mobility in determining the spread of epidemics in cities. Paulo Ventura, Alberto Aleta, Francisco Rodrigues, Yamir Moreno. Optimal Strategies for Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in Epidemic Metapopulation Models. Nils Gubela. Efficient and Accurate Simulation of Infectious Diseases on Adaptive Networks. Pablo Valgañón, David Soriano-Paños, Jesús Gomez-Gardeñes. Balancing Mobility Behaviors to avoid Global epidemics from Local Outbreaks​.
20:00	Drinks Reception Open to all registered attendees  Please take your conference badge with you This event is not available to guests. Paid guests are for the conference dinner only Venue TBA

​	DAY 2: Wednesday, April 23
09:00 - 09:20	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Announcements
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote: Celia Anteneodo Title: Opinion dynamics and epidemics: impact of network structure​​ ​​ Chair: TBA
10:30 - 11:30	Session 5: Applications of Network Science I Chair: TBA Hitalo Silva, Carmelo Bastos-Filho, Alexandre Rosa, Rafael Albuquerque, Arlington Rodrigues, Luigi  Da Silva tahara , Luiz Roisman, Samuel Scavitch, Diego Pinheiro. A Hybrid Framework for Quantifying and Analyzing the Structural Properties of Human Retinal Vessel Networks. Marko Gosak. Multilayer network analysis of collective beta cell activity in pancreatic islets. Jéssica de Oliveira, Thiago Murari, Claudia Cardoso, Marcelo Moret, Dirceu Melo, Hernane Pereira. Study of Dengue Incidence in Mato Grosso do Sul Cities Using Visibility Networks and Cluster Analysis. Uroš Barać. Understanding multimodal collective activity of beta cell populations: Insights from computational models and network analyses.
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 6: Computational Social Science I Chair: TBA Israel de Oliveira, Tarcisio Rocha FIlho, Jackson Maia. Innovation cycle characterization from multilayer networks. Hugo Barbosa. Modelling the effects of preferences and biases to the emergence of polarisation and inequality. Pablo Gallarta. The role of prestige in the emergence of technological innovations. Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli. Community-Based Stance Detection.
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Keynote: Esteban Moro Title: Beyond the Census: Understanding Urban Areas Through Behavioral Mobility Data Chair: TBA
15:30 - 16:30	Session 7: Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures II​​ ​ ​Chair: TBA Luis Rocha. Multilayer network inference via redundancy removal: linking the exposome to multiomics in human health Patrick Trindade, Maximilien Dreveton, Daniel Figueiredo. A framework for efficient estimation of closeness centrality and eccentricity in large networks João Morais, Ruben Interian. A simple and flexible algorithm to generate real-world networks Ali Yassin, Hocine Cherifi, Hamida Seba, Olivier Togni. Isolation Forest Meets Link Prediction: A Novel Framework for Backbone Extraction
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Session 8: Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility II​ ​Chair: TBA Andrew Renninger. Using next-location-prediction to unify latent spaces and compare urban networks Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Matteo Bruno, Vittorio Loreto. Land Use and Urban Accessibility: A New Approach using Fitness and Complexity Metrics Riccardo Roberto Basilone, Matteo  Bruno, Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo, Vittorio Loreto. Using road width to plan realistic protected lanes in road networks Diego Rybski. Long-range correlations in city networks
20:00	Conference Dinner Open to all registered attendees and paid guests. Venue TBA ​

​	DAY 3: Thursday, April 24
09:00 - 09:20	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Announcements
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote: Philipp Lorenz-Spreen Title: Digital Media and Democracy:  The Complex Relationship Between Online Networks and Politics Around the World ​​ Chair: TBA
10:30 - 11:30	Session 9: ​Computational Social Science II Chair: TBA Luiz Correia, Jesus Mena-Chalco. Bridging Communities: Measuring Cross-Conference Collaboration in CompleNet and CNA. Ana Caroline Brito, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Diego Amancio. Associations between author-level metrics in subsequent time periods. Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, Martin Everett. Authors standing on the shoulders of other authors:  Unpacking the author normalised weighted direct citation. Xiomara Chacon, Tiago C.  Silva, Diego R. Amancio. Comparing the Impact of Subfields in Scientific Journals: A Dive into Physics Papers.
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	​Session 10: ​​Network Theory, Dynamics & Structures III Chair: TBA Sadamori Kojaku. Network community detection via neural embeddings. Wissem Inoubli, Sabeur Aridhi, Haithem Mezni, Mondher maddouri, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo. A Distributed and Incremental Algorithm for Large-Scale Graph Clustering. Carlos Miguel Gonçalves, Leandro Rêgo, Pablo Fierens. A new model for generating stratified networks. Xuanchi Li, Sadamori Kojaku, Xin Wang. A near linear-time network sampling for the enhanced configuration models. ​
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Keynote: Francisca Ortiz-Ruiz Title: The Relevance of the Micro Level of Networks: A Relational Approach to Care and Social Support ​​ Chair: TBA​
15:30 - 16:30	Session 11: ​Epidemics & Contagion II​ Chair: TBA Conrado Pinto, Daniel Figueiredo. Identifying Asymptomatic Nodes in Network Epidemics using Network Centrality Metrics. Jose Andres Guzman Moran, Federico Malizia, Diana Cole, Gyeong Ho Park, Boseung Choi, Istvan Kiss. Inferring Characteristics of Contact Patterns from Epidemic Data Using Edge-Based compartmental model: Estimating Parameters Under Identifiability Constraints. Luke Murray Kearney. Data-Driven Construction and Simulation of Age-Structured Contact Networks. Miguel Pereira, Felipe Costa, Luis Rocha. Preserving spreading dynamics and centrality ranks with distance backbone synthesis of social contact networks
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Session 12: Applications of Network Science II​ Chair: TBA Lucas da Costa, Carlos Ribeiro, Emmanuel Dias-Neto. An approach based on Networks and Machine Learning for gastric cancer treatment recommendation. Cristofer Silva, Andrea Maria Ribeiro, Rodrigo Monteiro, Ronaldo Menezes, Carmelo  Bastos-Filho, Diego  Pinheiro. Learning Complex Network Structures through Graph-Augmented Normalizing Flows for Enhanced Anomaly Detection in Multivariate Time Series. Sebastian Gonçalves, Haroldo Ribeiro, Crisitina Masoller. Identifying Key Agents in Networks of Political Scandals. Rodrigo Cesar Lira da Silva, Mariana Macedo, Hugo Siqueira, Ronaldo Menezes, Carmelo Bastos-Filho. Revealing Swarm Intelligence Patterns using Network Science. Carlos Silva, Clodomir Junior, Carmelo Filho, Ronaldo Menezes. Network-Centric Analysis of Memetic Operators and Communication Topologies for Swarm Intelligence Algorithms. José Mendes. Unveiling Collective Behaviors: Swarmalators and Oscillator Transitions

​	DAY 4: Friday, April 25
09:00 - 09:20	Registration
09:20 - 09:30	Announcements
09:30 - 10:30	COMPLENET 2024 BEST SPEAKER Keynote: Carmen Cabrera-Arnau Title: Advancing human mobility research through better use of digital trace data​ ​​ Chair: TBA
10:30 - 11:30	Session 13: Urban Systems, Transportation & Mobility III Chair: TBA Giovanni Soares, Leonardo Santos, Luiz Max Fagundes, Ernesto Estrada Roger. On the cost of return to origin in directed networks - Cities as examples. Carlos  Santos, Hernane Pereira, Thiago  Murari, Leonardo Filho, Marcelo Cunha. The Brazilian Maritime Network during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of Topologies and Impacts on Connectivity. Guillaume Moinard, Matthieu Latapy. Improving flocking behaviors in street networks with vision. Júlio Taveira, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto, Ronaldo Menezes. Understanding the Structure and Resilience of the Brazilian Federal Road Network Through Network Science.
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00	Session 14: Epidemics & Contagion III​ Chair: TBA Carlos Miguel Gonçalves, Leandro Rêgo, Pablo Fierens. Network centrality measures for COVID-19 vaccination. Larissa Lima, Allbens Atman. Dengue serotypes cyclicity evidenced by the impact-frequency histogram of the visibility graph. Pavlos Alexandros Dimitriou, Costas Pitris, Valentinos Silvestros, Panayiotis Kolios. Mining triadic motifs in COVID-19 infection networks: Assessing contact tracing investigations and identifying transmission patterns. Denis Lucio Cardoso, Ana Paula  Melchiori, Angélica da Mata. Disease Dynamics and Network Structures in Livestock Farms: Assessing Transmission Risks in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	PhD Showcase Chair: TBA
15:30 - 16:30	Session 15: Dynamics on and of Networks II ​​​Chair: TBA Emy B. M. Bakker, Cristian  Rodriguez Rivero. Social circles impact on opinion dynamics. Luiza Piva, Beatriz Brum, Francisco Rodrigues. Symbolic regression for epidemic spreading in complex networks. Gabriel Souto. Analyzing a Football Match with Network Science. Hisham Eldai. The Cancer Hallmarks Analysis and Interpretation Framework—A Systemic Approach for Integrative Understanding of Cancer Evolution Through Cancer Hallmarks-Centered Network Analysis.
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Closing Remarks and Awards