CASOS 2005 Summer Institute
June 25 - 30, 2005
- Where?
- Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Engineering Hall - Singleton Room
- When?
- June 25 - 30, 2005 (dorm check-in begins @ 3PM on June 25)
- Who participates? Participation is open to graduate students, faculty, and personnel from industry and government. Due to space restrictions we are limited to approximately 35 attendants per year.
- Where to stay?
- Agenda (Download in .xls format)
- Campus Map
- Reading List
- CD
- Logistics
- Pittsburgh
- Purpose:
The purpose of this institute is to provide an intense and hands-on introduction to dynamic network analysis and computational organization theory. Both network analysis and computational analysis of complex social, organizational, and network systems will be covered. Participants will be able to complete the institute without programming skills or in-depth understanding of particular social theories. Computer programming and basic social or organizational theory are not included under the topics covered.
Participants learn about current trends, practices, and tools available for computational social science, networks analysis, and computational organization theory. Techniques for designing, analyzing, and validating computational models with and without network components are presented. There is also an emphasis on appropriate and inappropriate ways to critique computational models and network analyses. The strengths and weaknesses of computational and network approaches to the social and organizational sciences are discussed. Multiple computational platforms are explored and hands-on experience are provided. The platforms students will work with include ORGAHEAD, CONSTRUCT, ORGCON and TrustMe. The network representation and theory underlying these tools e is presented. Basic social network and dynamic network representations, statistics, analysis and visualization techniques are covered including the tools UCINET, ORA, and NetDraw. The computational curriculum also covers standard representation schemes for tasks, agents, and culture; optimization techniques, and learning algorithms. An examination of social network methods, complexity theory and procedures for integrating network-based metrics and statistics into computational models completes the program.
Institute Curriculum:
The curriculum builds on both social network and computational analysis techniques, and illustrates how to use these techniques to study social, organizational and policy issues.
Topics covered include:
- Social Network Analysis
- Dynamic Network Analysis
- Organizational Network Analysis
- MRQAP, Cliques
- Optimization Techniques - e.g., simulated annealing
- Adaptive, Evolutionary, and Learning Systems
- Emulative models; e.g., BioWar
- Data intensive models; ORGCON
- Intellective model; e.g. trustme
- Validation and Docking
Faculty:
Faculty are drawn from various institutions throughout the U.S.
Faculty List: To be announced soon
- Dormitory:
For students dormitory rooms will be available. All other attendees will need to book a room in a local hotel. Wyndham and the Holiday Inn are the hotels closest to CMU.
Dormitory rooms:
Morewood Gardens: check in begins June 24th at 3:00PM EST - Hotels:
- Shadyside
Inn
5405 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15232
Ph# 412-682-2300
PIN# 6517CM - Wyndham Garden
Hotel
University Place
3454 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-683-2040
PIN# 2028
- Shadyside
Inn
Accomodations are two- or three-person apartments.
Price (double occupancy, per room, per night) will be $19.65 plus additional costs for parking.
Each participant will be able to pay online using his/her credit card.
You can also indicate if you will need parking and a fan.
Click here to reserve a room online