Dear Colleagues, Again with apologies about the overlap with POLMETH XLI, I wanted to resend the Call for Proposals and Tutorials for IC2S2, a premiere international computational social science conference. Best, Dan 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) - Call for Abstracts and Tutorials Date: July 17-20, 2024 Location: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Conference website: https://ic2s2-2024.org/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=IC2S2.org/2024/Conference The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) is the premier conference bringing together researchers from different disciplines interested in using computational and data-intensive methods to solve problems relevant to society. IC2S2 hosts academics and practitioners in computational science, complexity, network science, and social science, and provides a platform for new research in the field of computational social science. Call for abstracts Submissions are in the form of anonymous extended abstracts in PDF format, formatted according to the official LaTeX <https://www.ic2s2.org/files/IC2S2_2023_latex_template_tutorials.zip> or MS Word <https://www.ic2s2.org/files/ic2s2_2023_word_template_tutorials.docx> templates that can be downloaded from the submission website. The submission should include a title, a list of 5 keywords, and an extended abstract (serving as the main text of the submission). The abstract should outline the impact of the work, along with (if relevant) the main theoretical contribution, data and methods used, and findings. Authors are strongly encouraged to include figures and/or tables in their submission. Submission length: We have improved our submission guidelines to constrain the number of figures and tables allowed. Extended abstracts should comprise a maximum length of 2 pages excluding references, figures and tables. The authors can additionally include up to 5 (in total) figures and tables. No appendices are allowed. When submitting, authors will be also asked to provide a short summary paragraph that will be used during the review bidding phase. As the review process is double-blind, please do not include the author(s) names or affiliation(s) in the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments. Papers violating the submission guidelines will be desk rejected, and the decisions made will be final and binding. Types of contributions: The accepted contributions will be selected for one of the following presentations: (i) a lightning talk (~6 mins) in a plenary session, (ii) an oral presentation in parallel tracks, or (iii) a poster presentation session. Lightning talks will be preferentially assigned to those requesting this form of presentation at submission and to early career researchers. In order to be included in the program, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the early-bird registration deadline. No published proceedings: Submissions will be non-archival, and thus the presented work can be already published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or ongoing research. Abstracts will be reviewed by multiple members of a Program Committee composed of experts in computational social science. Abstract submission deadline: February 24, 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2024 Early-bird registration deadline: May 8, 2024 Conference days: July 18-20, 2024 Call for tutorials The aim with tutorials is that participants can take home knowledge and skills on methods that they can apply to their own research. Priority will be given to tutorials that include hands-on and active learning components. Tutorials should be comprehensive and should not focus only on the presenter’s previous work. We also welcome proposals for tutorials on "disciplinary state of the art sessions" that give a focused overview on the latest developments, trends and perspectives in a specific discipline or research area and any other topics at the intersection of the social sciences, computer science and/or statistics. Tutorials should be of interest to a substantial portion of the community and should represent a sufficiently mature area of research or practice. A regular tutorial slot is 3 hours long. However, we are also accepting proposals for full-day tutorials (6 hours). The full conference registration fee will be waived for one organizer per tutorial. Submissions for Tutorial proposals should be formatted according to the official LATEX <https://www.ic2s2.org/files/IC2S2_2023_latex_template_tutorials.zip> or MS WORD <https://www.ic2s2.org/files/ic2s2_2023_word_template_tutorials.docx> template and should be no more than three pages in length. The submission file must be submitted in PDF format and should be no larger than 20MB. Proposals should contain the following: - Title - Presenters / organizers: Please provide names, affiliations, email addresses, and short bios (up to 200 words) for each presenter. Bios should cover the presenters' expertise related to the topic of the tutorial. If there are multiple presenters, please describe how the time will be divided between them. - Topic: An abstract describing the topic (approximately 250 words) - Rationale: What is the objective / learning outcome of the tutorial? What is the benefit for the attendees? Why is this tutorial important to the IC2S2 community? - Format: A description of the proposed event format and a list of proposed activities, with a description of the hands-on component (tools, packages, methods etc). We encourage organizers to specify any technique that they can offer to broaden the accessibility of the content (e.g., closed captioning of slides). - Equipment: A short note on equipment or features required for the tutorial. - Audience: A short statement about the expected target audience. What prior knowledge, if any, do you expect from the audience? - Proposed length: please choose from 3 hours (full session) or 6 hours (full day). If you are flexible, please indicate in the outline which parts will be included in the short/long versions. - Preferred time slot: Please indicate your preference for the morning slot (from 9:15am) or the afternoon slot (from 1:45pm) - Number of participants: Please specify the maximum number of participants that could reasonably attend and be instructed by the organizers. - Previous tutorials: Has the tutorial been presented previously? If so, specify the previous venues and years in which the event was held, and provide either a short description or a link to the websites of the previous editions. Tutorial proposal submission deadline: January 19, 2024 Notification of tutorial acceptance: January 30, 2024 Early-bird registration deadline: May 8, 2024 Tutorial day: July 17, 2024 Conference days: July 18-20, 2024 Topics We welcome submissions for abstracts or tutorials on any topic in the field of computational social science, including (a) work that advances methods and approaches for computational social science, (b) data-driven work that describes and discovers social and cultural phenomena or explains and estimates relations between them and other things, and (c) theoretical work that generates new insights, connections and frameworks for computational social science research. Researchers across disciplines, faculty, graduate students, industry researchers, policy makers, and nonprofit workers are all encouraged to submit computational data-driven research and innovative computational methodological or theoretical contributions on social phenomena for consideration. Topics include but are not limited to: - Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making - Network analysis of social systems - Methods and issues of data collection - Large-scale social experiments and/or phenomena - Agent-based or other simulation of social phenomena - Text mining, text analysis, and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena - Analysis of meaning through computational analysis of text, images, audio, video, etc. - Use of computational methods to map and study cultural patterns and dynamics - Theoretical discussions/concepts in computational social science - Integration and triangulation of multi-modal social and cultural data - Causal inference and computational methods for social science - Neural network methods for social analysis and policy exploration - Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability and trustworthiness - Building and evaluating socio-technical systems - Novel digital data and/or computational analyses for addressing societal challenges - Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational social data - Social news curation and collaborative filtering - Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication dynamics - Ethics of computational research on human behavior - Reproducibility in computational social science research - Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in computational social science - Computational social science research in industry, government, and philanthropy - Science and technology studies approaches to computational science work - Practical problems in computational social science - Issues of inclusivity in computational social science - All other topics in computational social science In addition to the list above, topics of specific interest for tutorials also include: - Application of large language models in CSS research - Visual communication and data visualizations - Combining digital trace data and additional data (e.g., surveys) - Using sensors for studying behavior - Assessing biases in data collection - Best practices for working with online communities (including crowdsourcing and participants recruitment) - Legal and ethical dimensions of CSS research - Innovative mixed methods for research on socio-technical systems - Reproducibility in CSS research - Experimental design and development in CSS - Research Design and Causal Inference - Generative AI applications in social science research Enquiries For any questions regarding tutorial submissions, please write to: [log in to unmask] -- www.danhopkins.org Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Secondary Appointments: Computer and Information Science and Annenberg School for Communication Author, The Increasingly United States <https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo27596045.html> and Stable Condition <https://www.russellsage.org/publications/stable-condition> ************************************************************** Political Methodology E-Mail List Editors: Yuan (Cecilia) Sui and Gechun Lin <[log in to unmask]> ************************************************************** Send messages to [log in to unmask] To join the list, cancel your subscription, or modify your subscription settings visit: https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/spm/mailing-list **************************************************************