Wednesday (September 26)
08:00 Registration
09:00 Ernst Wit, WULS representatives, Opening, welcome, practical info.
09:30 Piotr Zwiernik: Totally positivity, graphical models, and convex optimization.
10:00 Guido Consonni: Bayesian Learning of Markov Equivalence Classes of DAGs with Observational and Interventional Data.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Tiago Peixoto: Reconstructing networks with unknown and heterogeneous errors.
11:30 Geofrey Canright: Learnings from large scale experiments on viral marketing and viral spreading.
12:00 Marco Grzegorczyk: Non-homogeneous dynamic Bayesian network models
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Working Group 1: Exploring (massive) network data sets (chair Clelia Di Serio)
- Jesus M Cortes: Brain networks as a predictor of aging along lifespan
- Nikolay K. Vitanov, Zlatinka Dimitrova: Discrete-time model for a motion of substance in a channel of a network with application to channels of human migration
- Nour Alrabie: Working alone, together: for good or ill? Multidisciplinarity in Primary Health Care Organisations
- Božidar Popović: Generalization of Azzalini’s method with application in medicine science
- Paolo Berta: Does cooperation between hospitals increase the quality of care?
- Paola Vicardi: PC algorithm for complex survey data
- Smaranda Cioban: Vlogging in Romania: An exploratory research of vlogs’ preferences among teenagers from Bihor County
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Short talk (chair Marco Grzegorczyk)
- Andrzej Buda: Agent-Based Modeling of the global phonographic market.
- Anja Znidarsic: How to implement the nearest neighbours algorithm to estimate missing ties due to actor non-response?
- Ben Parker: A network framework for algorithmic design of experiments
- Denise De Gaetano: Extracting the Value of Big Data
- Gino B. Kpogbezan: Incorporating prior information and borrowing information in high-dimensional sparse regression using the horseshoe and variational Bayes
- Julien Cloarec: The Personalization-Privacy Paradox in Attention Economy
- Konstantin Klemm: Branch decompositions for analyzing stochastic processes on networks
- Marjan Cugmas: Symmetric core-cohesive blockmodel in an interactional pre-school networks
- Lyuba Bozhilova: Measuring rank robustness in scored protein interaction net
- Markos Koutras: New distributions for network modeling
- Monia Lupparelli: Direct and indirect effect in recursive regression graph models
- Pariya Behrouzi: Dynamic Chain Graph Models for Mixed Time Series Data
18:00 Closing
19:00 Dinner in Platinum Residence hotel
Thursday (September 27)
09:00 Veronica Vinciotti & Anuška Ferligoj: joint early career and STSM session
- Saverio Ranciati: Overlapping mixture models for network data (manet) with covariates adjustment
- Veronica Vinciotti: STSM opportunities
- Anuška Ferligoj: How COSTNET reaches out to early career, female and ITC participants
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Working Group 3: Network Inference and Prediction (chair Arnoldo Frigessi)
- Andrew Elliott: Anomaly Detection in Networks using spectral methods and Network comparison approaches
- Anuška Ferligoj: Citation network analysis of the literature on clustering networks
- Konstantin Avrachenkov: Mean Field Analysis of Personalized PageRank with Implications for Local Graph Clustering
- Michael Lebacher :The Trade Network of Firearms and Ammunition: A Censored Regression Model with Endogenous Network Effects
- Michał B. Paradowski: Which centrality measures in peer learner networks are the best predictors of second language acquisition?
- Mirko Signorelli: Model-based clustering for populations of networks
13:00 Group photo (in front of the lecture hall), then lunch break
14:15 Gesine Reinert, Ernst Wit: Future of COSTNET Action
14:30 Wessel van Wieringen: Using prior information in penalized estimation of graphical models
15:00 Poster session
- Luca Del Core: Statistical Analysis of Gene Therapy data
- Nuno M. Garcia: Addressing multidimensionality in ECG data
- Rūta Užupytė: Triadic closure pattern analysis in temporal network models
- James Wilsenach: CommFinedWalker: Controlling for Inspection Bias in the Annotation of Protein Interaction Networks
- Javier Pardo Diaz: Gene coexpression network for the study of Rhizobium leguminosarum
- Andrzej Jarynowski: Model of future propagation of African Swine Fever in Eastern and Central Europe
- Olga Zajkowska: Can friends and family replace the childcare services? Preliminary analysis for Poland
- Magnus Münch: Group-regularized logistic elastic net regression
- Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad: Partially non-homogeneous dynamic Bayesian networks based on Bayesian regression models with partitioned design matrices, Gaussian process
- Yosi Keller: Deep Spectral Graph Matching Network
- Sevag Kevork: Iterative Estimation Approach for ERGMs with Nodal Random Effects
- Spyros Balafas: Psychometric networks
16:30 bus to Wilanów Park http://www.wilanow-palac.pl/, then a walk to hotel
Friday (September 28)
09:00 Working Group 2: Network Modelling (chair Steffen L. Lauritzen)
- Gesine Reinert: Risk and Ruin in an Insurance Market with Bipartite Network Structure
- Benjamin Sischka: Bayesian and Spline based Approaches for Graphon Estimation
- Brieuc Lehmann: Bayesian exponential random graph models for populations of networks
- Federico Castelletti: Objective Bayes model selection of Gaussian interventional essential graphs
- Lucia Paci: Objective Bayes analysis for graphical vector autoregressive models
- Reza Mohammadi: High-dimensional Bayesian inference of Graphical Models with Application to Brain Connectivity
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Lorenz Wernisch: Improving protocols for cell differentiation through reinforcement learning
12:30 Short talk (chair Gesine Reinert)
- Stefano Peluso: Analyzing social networks via marginal models with individual-specific effects
- Gholamreza Jafari: Non transparency in large Networks
- Sanda Martincic-Ipsic: Extracting Keywords from Language Complex Networks
- Vilda Purutcuoglu: Construction of protein interaction networks under steady state activations
- Vladimir Batagelj: Network analysis of bike sharing data
13:00 closing, lunch
13:00-17:00 MC meeting (including lunch)