Special Lecture in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems: "Algorithms for Computational Social Science"
Starts 29 May 2014 17:00
Ends 29 May 2014 18:00
Central European Time
ICTP
Strada Costiera, 11
I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Abstract:
The availability of large datasets has allowed scientists to probe the dynamics of social systems to unprecedented levels of details. We will provide a general overview of the main problems and give a few specific examples in three fields, namely:
a) Language Dynamics
b) Community Detection
c) Citation Analysis