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
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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
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11:00 am — 11:30 am | Coffee break

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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
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 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

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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

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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
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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
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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
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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