Specialized Sessions

Collaborative Innovation Networks (CoINs)

Organized by Maria Rosaria D'Esposito and Giuseppe Giordano

"COINs are cyberteams of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in creating a cool trend – an innovation – by sharing ideas, information, and work. [...] COINs are powered by swarm creativity. People work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. It may look chaotic from the outside, but the structure of a COIN is like a beehive or ant colony, immensely productive because each team member knows intuitively what she or he needs to do."

adapted from: Peter Gloor, Collaborative innovation networks — How to mint your COINs?

Financial Network Analysis

Organized by Valentina Kuskova and Alessandra Amendola

Stability of financial systems has always been of interest to researchers, though for different reasons over the years. With multiple financial crises over the last few decades, many research studies are dedicated to the analysis of the interbank lending market and other financial networks. Relational approach to financial market analysis can provide additional insights to many research questions, especially to analysis of financial distress diffusion. This session is dedicated to papers applying network analysis to the area of finance, including (but not limited to) financial markets, trading, ego networks in individual wealth accumulation and distribution, and many others. Both the completed papers and research proposals are welcome.

International Trade and Network Analysis

Organized by Luca De Benedictis and Lucia Tajoli

Multilayer Network Analysis in Economics, Social Sciences and Policy Analysis

Organized by Margherita Russo

The session is open to contributions exploring the potential and critical features of multilayer networks using statistical and machine learning methods. Both theoretical and applied contributions in economics, social sciences and policy analysis will be considered.

Selected papers will be invited for a submission to a possibile special issues (thematic research call) for Palgrave Communications in the field of network analysis or data analysis

Social Network Analysis in Social Inclusion Processes: Evidence from Case Studies in Italy

Organized by Anna Maria Zaccaria, Francesco Vasca and Andrea Salvini

Scientific Networks

Organized by Anuska Ferligoj and Dmitry Zaytsev

In the session Scientific Networks the contribution are welcome that

  • study scientific networks (e.g., co-authorship networks, citation networks) in the social sciences and other scientific fields;
  • propose methodological approaches to study different kinds of scientific networks;
  • propose methodology to evaluate scientific communities social impact.

Selected papers will be invited for a submission to a special issue in the Network science journal

Student Mobility

Organized by Fabio Aiello and Michele Tumminello

The session focuses on the emerging multidisciplinary study of student mobility. Over the last decades, Italians witnessed a burst of student mobility within the university system, which might reflect an increasing competition among universities, as well as an increasing socio-economic inequality between the North and the South of the country. Indeed, flows in the higher-education system are observed from the South to the North of Italy, and from the North of the country to universities abroad. Research on student mobility brings with it the necessity to deal with the growing amount of data available. A special emphasis is given to latest advances in the empirical analysis of student mobility, its sociological implications, and its impact on the labor market 

PRIN project: PRIN 2017 “From high school to job placement: micro-data life course analysis of university student mobility and its impact on the Italian North-South divide.”, n. 2017HBTK5P

Textual Network Analysis

Organized by Michelangelo Misuraca

Text Network may arises from different sources of knowledge, such as relational database, qualitative analysis, open sentences in a questionnaire, and so on. In its simpler form, a text network call for a set of node-lemma linked by co-occurence in an event-set (documents, authors, movies, etc.). In more complex situations there exist different types of nodes (nodes with different attributes, e.g. authors, papers, places in a co-authorship network) or different types of relationships (also linked in a hierarchy, e.g. co-occurence in a scientific paper, which is part of a scholar’s full publication, which is part of a research center, etc.). These last can give raise to multi-graph and/or multi-layer network approach to the analysis of a common language or more generally to detect regular patterns in semantic knowledge.

Young-SIS@ARS’19

Organized by Anna Calissano and Saverio Ranciati

What are trends challenging and fascinating the next generation of scholars in the Analysis of Social Networks? The Young chapter of the Italian Statistical Society is pleased to organized a session where a distinguished group of young panellist will help you stay at the forefront of the field. In particular, the section will present novel techniques concerning the analysis of both a single network and a population of networks, offering a sneak peek of the next generation novel ideas.