IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstract submission: May 14, 2012

Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2012

Program release: July 2, 2012

Further Information

THEME

The satellite meeting will be an opportunity for discussing the recent advances in the study of contagion processes across different scientific domains with a main focus on data-driven modeling approaches. The workshop will be fully interdisciplinary and will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines such as physics, mathematics, biology, epidemiology, human and veterinary medicine, computer science, information technologies and social sciences. Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics:

• Agents movements and spatial spread
• Implications of contact patterns and agents heterogeneity for transmission
• Temporally evolving networks and dynamics of contagion
• Contagion engineering
• Interdependent contagion processes

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Niel Hens, Hasselt University, Belgium
• Marcel Salathé, Penn State, US

VENUE

The satellite meeting will be hosted by ECCS’12 and it will be co-located with the main conference at the Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

FUNDING

The meeting is organized and supported by the ECCS’12 and by the EPIFOR project (EC ERC Ideas contract n.ERC-2007-Stg204863, www.epifor.eu). 

REGISTRATION

All the participants of the satellite meeting (with or without abstract submission) have to register to ECCS '12.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts are submitted via the EasyChair website. Submissions are required to be at most one page long including the following information: title of the talk, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), abstract (text only). Papers are not accepted.

Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee members, based on the adherence with the theme of the satellite, originality and scientific soundness.

Once the selection process is complete, the authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified by e-mail.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Iacopo Baussano, Novara University, Italy & Imperial College, UK (tbc)
• Vincent Blondel, Univ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Pierre-Yves Boelle, INSERM & UPMC, France
• Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation, Italy
• Damon M. Centola, MIT, US
• Uno Wennergren, Linkopings University, Sweden
• Marta Gonzalez, MIT, US
• Sebastian Funk, LSHTM, UK
• Bruno Goncalves, Northeastern University, US
• Petter Holme, Umea University, Sweden
• Yamir Moreno, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, US & ISI Foundation, Italy