Welcome to the XXXIX Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Here are some conference-related information... There are more on the Conference Website (you can download some helpful documents directly from the home page, under ’’Shared Files’’). WiFi: Network: Visiteurs UQAM User name: asunbelt2019 Password: DQ32fK23 OR EDUROAM is also available everywhere in all UQAM Buildings. There is also a Public WIFI Network in Downtown Montréal: MTL-WIFI (see here for more details). RESTAURANTS There is no lack of good restaurants and bars near the Conference venue and in Montréal globally. Download the pdf file for a few suggestions (under ’’Shared Files’’ on the website).
Organizers: Juergen Lerner Mark Tranmer, Federica Bianchi
Relational event models are statistical models for social interaction networks such as communication networks, online collaboration, and social media networks that are typically observed with fine-grained time resolution. Sampling techniques originating from the field of survival analysis allow to reliably fit relational event models to networks of millions of nodes connected by hundreds of millions of dyadic events.
This workshop provides a practical introduction to relational event modeling with the event network analyzer (http://algo.uni.kn/software/eventnet/) illustrated on publicly available data from two application domains: (1) interaction events in international relation networks and (2) online collaboration networks in Wikipedia. These networks vary in a wide range of characteristics such as the presence of event signs, weights, or types; node and dyad covariates; one-mode vs two-mode networks; time resolution; and, last but not least, network size.
