Program

CompleNet 2018 will be hosted at Northeastern University. The 4-day conference will located at East Village building within our urban campus. Poster sessions and the Art of Networks III will be held at other venues.

Main conference location: East Village, 291 St. Botolph St.
More venue details can be found here.

View full list of talks here and posters here.

Schedule March 5-8

sunday, march 4, 2018

5:00 pm — 8:00 pm | Symposium of Young Network Scientists: Paper Unwind
Location: Network Science Institute, 2nd floor

monday, march 5, 2018

 8:30 am — 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am — 9:15 am | Opening Remarks

9:15 am — 10:00 am | INVITED TALK: David Lazer, The Prevalence and Dissemination of Fake News

Social Networks I

10:00 am — 11:00 am

Giovanna Miritello, Manuel Cebrián, César Hidalgo & Esteban Moro Egido, Tie strength precedes social embededdness
John Ternovski & Taha Yasseri, Social influence in music listenership: A natural experiment on 1.3 million Last.fm users
Stefano Balietti, Brennan Klein & Christoph Riedl, Toward the optimal design of social network experiments
Talayeh Aledavood, Sune Lehmann & Jari Saramäki, Social network differences of chronotypes identified from mobile phone data
Marc Santolini, Abhijeet Krishna, Leo Blondel, Thomas Landrain & Albert-László Barabási, Predicting team success in the iGEM scientific competition

11:00 am — 11:30 am | Coffee break

Biological Networks I

11:30 am — 12:30 pm

Megha Padi & John Quackenbush, Detecting phenotype-driven transitions in regulatory network structure
Vrushali Dipak Fangal, Enrico Maiorino & Amitabh Sharma, MIDAS : autoMatIc translation of MechanistIc rules to DynAmic logic RuleS for modeling biological networks
Xiao Gan & Réka Albert, A general method to find the attractors of discrete dynamic models of biological systems
Chuliang Song, Rudolf P. Rohr & Serguei Saavedra, A guideline to study the feasibility of multi-trophic and changing ecological communities
Istvan Kovacs & Albert-László Barabási, Network-based prediction of biological interactions

12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Lunch

2:00 pm — 2:30 pm | INVITED TALK: Yelena Mejova, Capturing Digital Signals for Lifestyle Health Research

2:30 pm — 3:00 pm | INVITED TALK: Kayla de la Haye, The social contagion of obesity: Understanding mechanisms, developing network interventions

Network Theory I

3:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Chia-Hung Yang & Sean P. Cornelius, Emergence of Laplace-distributed growth rates in complex systems
Daniel Larremore, Caterina De Bacco & Cris Moore, A physical model for efficient ranking in networks
Pim van der Hoorn, Dima Krioukov & Gabor Lippner, Ensemble of sparse graphs with scale-free degree distribution that maximizes Gibbs entropy
Muhammed Abdullah Canbaz, Khalid Bakhshaliyev & Mehmet Gunes, Router level topologies of autonomous systems
Maksim Kitsak, Alexander A. Ganin, Daniel Eisenberg, Pavel L. Krapivsky, Dmitri Krioukov, David L. Alderson & Igor Linkov, Stability of a giant connected component in a complex network

4:00 pm — 4:30 pm | Coffee break

Control & Dynamics I

4:30 pm — 5:30 pm

Kanchan Mopari, Alessio Cardillo, Paolo De Los Rios, Alex Arenas & Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes, To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? A coevolutionary dilemma
Sebastian Ruf, Magnus Egerstedt & Jeff Shamma, Herdability of complex networks
Juan Carlos Rocha Gordo & Jessica Gephart, How far does a shock event spread on a network? Detecting causality on the salmon trade network
Bogang Jun, Aamena Alshamsi, Jian Gao & César Hidalgo, Relatedness, knowledge diffusion, and the evolution of bilateral trade
Joshua Becker, Devon Brackbill & Damon Centola, Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds

Tuesday, march 6, 2018

8:30 am — 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am — 9:45 am | INVITED TALK: Olaf Sporns, Network Neuroscience: Understanding the Structure and Function of the Brain

Brain Networks

9:45 am — 10:45 am

Emma Towlson, Gang Yan, Petra Vertes, Yee Lian Chew, Denise Walker, William Schafer & Albert-László Barabási, Control principles in the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system
Ali Faqeeh, Saeed Osat, Filippo Radicchi & James Gleeson, Structurally induced noncritical power-laws in neural avalanches
Ari Kahn, Elisabeth Karuza, Jean Vettel & Danielle Bassett, Network constraints on learnability of probabilistic motor sequences
Nima Dehmamy, Soodabeh Milanlouei & Albert-László Barabási, Structural phase transition in physical networks embedded in 3D
Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani & Hiroki Sayama, A percolation-based thresholding method with applications in functional connectivity analysis

10:45 am — 11:15 am | Coffee break

Network Applications I

11:15 am — 12:30 pm

Albert Solé-Ribalta, Sergio Gómez & Alex Arenas, Decongestion of urban areas with hotspot-pricing
Tarik Roukny, Compressing networked markets
Luiz G. A. Alves, Statistical physics of crime: From scaling laws to complex networks
Stefano Balietti & Christoph Riedl, The market structure for innovation
Ieke De Vries & Brennan Klein, Firm responses to illicit market dynamics
Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia, Dino Pedreschi, Fosca Giannotti & Albert-László Barabási, Understanding human perception of performance

12:30 pm — 2:00 pm | Lunch

2:00 pm — 2:30 pm | INVITED TALK: J.-P. Onnela, Parameter Inference and Model Selection for Mechanistic Network Models

2:30 pm — 3:00 pm | INVITED TALK: Sam Scarpino, The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated

Epidemics & Spreading

3:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Dina Mistry, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Maria Litvinova, Marcelo Ferreira Da Costa Gomes, Syed Haque, Kunpeng Mu, Xinyue Xiong, Quanhui Liu, Laura Fumanelli, Stefano Merler & Alessandro Vespignani, A data-driven computational approach to infer social contact networks in the context of infectious disease modeling
Joan T Matamalas, Alex Arenas & Sergio Gómez, Epidemic extinction driven by link conductance
Flavio Iannelli, Manuel Sebastian Mariani & Igor M Sokolov, Network centrality based on reaction-diffusion dynamics reveals influential spreaders
Michele Coscia, Popularity spikes hurt the future implementations of protomemes
Vittoria Colizza, Demographic and biological drivers of rabies persistence in a large dog population in Africa

4:00 pm — 4:30 pm | Coffee break

4:30 pm — 5:15 pm | Poster Slam A

5:15 pm — 6:00 pm | Free time

6:00 pm — 8:00 pm | Poster Session A & Cocktail Reception
Location: Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street

Wednesday, march 7, 2018

8:30 am — 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast

9:15 am — 10:00 am | INVITED TALK: Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg, From networks to geometry: lessons from machine learning

Network Applications II

10:00 am — 11:15 am

Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes, Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture
Philipp Lorenz & Philipp Hoevel, Modeling the rise and fall of online topics
Takashi Isogai, Dynamic correlation network analysis of financial asset returns with network clustering
Lorenzo Gabrielli, Daniele Fadda, Giulio Rossetti, Mirco Nanni, Leonardo Piccini, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi & Patrizia Lattarulo, Discovering mobility functional Areas: A mobility data analysis approach
Patrick Gildersleve & Taha Yasseri, Inspiration, captivation, and misdirection: Emergent properties in networks of online navigation
Alec Kirkley, Hugo Barbosa-Filho, Marc Barthelemy & Gourab Ghoshal, Structural invariants in street networks: modeling and practical implications

11:15 am — 11:45 am | Coffee break

11:45 am — 12:30 pm | Poster Slam B

12:30 pm — 2:30 pm | Lunch (provided) & Poster Session B
Location: Curry Student Center, Ballroom (building #50 on campus map)

2:30 pm — 3:00 pm | INVITED TALK: James Evans, The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

3:00 pm — 3:30 pm | INVITED TALK: Aaron Clauset, Faculty hiring and epistemic inequality in the spread of scientific ideas

3:30 pm — 3:45 pm | Coffee Break

Social Networks II

3:45 pm — 5:00 pm

Felipe Montes, Roberto C. Jimenez & J.-P. Onnela, Connected but segregated: Social networks in rural villages
Balazs Vedres and Ancsa Hannak, Networks, gender, and success in video games development
Alfredo J Morales, Leila Hedayatifar & Yaneer Bar-Yam, US social fragmentation
David Lazer, Jason Radford & Briony Swire-Thompson, Deliberation in groups and networks: overcoming the hidden profile problem
Bence Sagvari & Balazs Lengyel, Social networks and economic disparities in cities
Sanjay Guruprasad & César Hidalgo, The Influence of Collaboration Networks on Programming Language Acquisition

5:30 pm — 6:30 pm | Art of Networks Reception
Location: Network Science Institute, 177 Huntington Ave, Lobby

6:30 pm —8:00 pm | Caucus for Women in Network Science (WiNS)
Location: Network Science Institute, 177 Huntington Ave, Lobby

thursday, march 8, 2018

8:30 am — 9:00 am | Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am — 9:45 am | INVITED TALK: Jon Kleinberg, Competition and Selection Among Conventions in Social Networks

Community Detection

9:45 am — 10:45 am

Amir Ghasemian, Homa Hosseinmardi & Aaron Clauset, Evaluating and comparing overfit in models of network community structure
Michael Schaub & Leto Peel, Efficient detection of hierarchical block structures in networks
Philip Chodrow & Peter Mucha, Dynamics of community formation in an adaptive voter model
Tsuyoshi Murata & Naveed Afzal, Modularity optimization as a training criterion for graph neural networks
Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Albert Solé-Ribalta, Manuel Sebastian Mariani & Claudio Juan Tessone, Revealing in-block nestedness in social and ecological networks

10:45 am — 11:15 am | Coffee break

Control & Dynamics II

11:15 am — 12:15 pm

Yang Yang, Takashi Nishikawa & Adilson Motter, Vulnerability and co-susceptibility determine large network cascades
Jaewoo Kim, Kyu-Min Lee & Kwang-Il Goh, Threshold cascade dynamics on signed networks
Giovanni Francesco Massari, Ilaria Giannoccaro & Giuseppe Carbone, The effect of contrarians on the decision making performance of groups
Christopher Lynn, Lia Papadopoulos, Daniel Lee & Danielle Bassett, Collective human activity emerges from simple pairwise interactions
Alfredo Morales, Vaibhav Vavilala, Rosa M. Benito & Yaneer Bar-Yam, Global Patterns of Synchronization in Human Communications

12:15 pm — 2:00 pm | Lunch

Network Theory II

2:00 pm — 3:15 pm

Philipp Hoevel, Andreas Koher & Hartmut Lentz, Estimating epidemic thresholds in temporal networks
Andrew Mellor, The temporal event graph
Dane Taylor, Rajmonda Caceres & Peter Mucha, Theoretical foundations for temporal network preprocessing and community detection
Ronald Robertson, David Lazer & Christo Wilson, Modeling suggestion networks for algorithm auditing
Timothy Larock, Timothy Sakharov, Sahely Bhadra & Tina Eliassi-Rad, Learning to complete partially observed networks
Xindi Wang, Onur Varol, Tina Eliassi-Rad & Albert-László Barabási, Learning to place objects: A network-based approach

3:15 pm — 3:45 pm | Coffee break

3:45 pm — 4:15 pm | INVITED TALK: Milena Tsvetkova, The Dynamics of Disagreement

4:15 pm — 4:45 pm | INVITED TALK: Jessika Trancik, How to make technology solve big problems?

4:45 pm — 5:00 pm | Closing Remarks & Poster Awards

Thank you to our generous Sponsors & Funders

Army Research Office
Indiana University Network Science Institute
Springer