Workshop at the Hawai'i International Conference on Social Sciences 2008, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI.

We are leading a workshop intended for researchers engaged in social network research, as part of the HICSS conference, Jan 7, 2008 in Hawaii (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_41/).

We have a flexible workshop format, and invite your participation. In a workshop, we can talk about techniques, we can look at particular data sets, and we can discuss a larger research agenda in this area.

Please let us know if you are interested in participating, and in which way.

For anyone interested in participating, we would like a short statement of interest or position that we can share with participants prior to the workshop. We would like to collect these by July 15.

Social Network Analysis (Workshop Half-Day)

Leader:  Jeff Nickerson and Kylle Lyytinen

 

Social network analysis has been an important part of sociology and anthropology for decades. Recently, physicists and computer scientists have begun developing new approaches to analyzing such networks. Information systems researchers have become interested also, with an increasing number of papers appearing in IS journals and conferences. This workshop is devoted to cross-disciplinary research on social network analysis, focused on questions such as the following:

 

• How should machines be portrayed in social networks? As nodes? As links? As a different kind of node?
• How can hierarchical graph structures be used to portray social networks which contain organizations, individuals, and systems?
• To what extent does wireless communication change our social nets?
• How does social behavior emerge out of new forms of connection?

Research making use of computational methods – such as simulation – are welcome. Collaborations between groups using computational, experimental, and field methods is also encouraged.

 

(primary contact) Jeffrey V. Nickerson is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Decision Technologies in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests include social network analysis, sensor network design, and emergency response utilizing mobile ad hoc networks.
             Email: jnickerson@stevens.edu

Stevens Institute of Technology

Castle Point on Hudson

Hoboken NJ 07030

Tel: (201) 216-8124  Fax: (201) 216-5385

 

Kalle Lyytinen is Iris S. Wolstein Professor in Management Design at Case Western Reserve.  His research interests include systems design methods, IS research strategy, computer-aided systems engineering environments, CSCW, risk management, and diffusion theory. He is an AIS Fellow, and is the editor of the Journal of AIS.
            Email: Kalle.Lyytinen@case.edu

Case Western Reserve University

10900 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland OH 44106

Tel: (216) 368-5353  Fax: (216) 368-2845