14th Computational Social Science

Satellite Event of CCS'26

(RoomTBD)

Thursday 15th October 2026 - Binghamton, NY, USA

About

About

For the last two decades, computational models combined with large-scale transactional data have been used by computational social scientists to explain, predict, and even forecast social phenomena.

The general aim of this satellite (one of the oldest satellite series of the Conference on Complex Systems, active since 2013) is to address social phenomena emerging over multiple scales, ranging from the interactions of individuals to the emergence of self-organized global movements within the realm of computational social science.

We would like to gather researchers from different disciplines and methodological backgrounds to form a forum to discuss ideas, research questions, recent results, and future challenges in this emerging area of research and public interest.

Submission

Submissions will be made through OpenReview by sending a PDF document of 2 pages maximum (see LaTeX template). On the first page, you must include title, authors and their affiliations, and full abstract of your talk. The second page can only include one figure with caption, and references.

Submit your abstract (soon!)

The contributions to the event will be evaluated by the programme committee through a peer-review process that will account for the scientific quality as well as for the relevance of the contribution to the aims of the satellite. Successful submissions will be given a 12–15 minutes slot for oral presentation at the event.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Early bird registration: 20th August
Abstract submission deadline: TBD
Notification of acceptance: TBD
Satellite event: 15th October

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Dynamics of social contagion.
Online communication and (mis)information diffusion.
Interdependent social contagion processes.
Peer production and mass collaboration.
Cooperative platforms and online labour market.
Emergent patterns in social-ecological systems.
Viral propagation in online social networks.
Crowd-sourcing; herding behaviour vs. the wisdom of crowds.
Online socio-political mobilizations.

Spatiotemporal patterns of information diffusion.
Group formation, evolution and group behaviour analysis.
Modelling, tracking and forecasting dynamic groups in social media.
Community detection and dynamic community structure analysis.
Social simulation. Cultural, opinion, and normative dynamics.
Empirical calibration and validation of agent-based social models.
Online and lab experiments.
Hierarchical structure and ranking dynamics in society.
E-democracy and online government-citizen interaction.

Registration

All the participants of the satellite event (with or without abstract submission) must register for the whole conference or only for the satellite days at the Conference on Complex Systems 2026 website. The Early Bird registration deadline is 20th August 2026. The full rate registration remains open until the day of the event.