Symposium Dynamics of Networks and Behavior, Portorož (Slovenia), May 10-11, 2004.

Dynamics of Networks and Behavior

Satellite symposium, May 10-11, 2004,
connected to the XXIV Sunbelt Conference in Portorož, Slovenia (May 12-16, 2004).

On this page, you find the programme of the Satellite Symposium as it took place.

Below each entry, there is a link to the abstract of the talk, and another link to the presentation itself, for viewing or downloading.

Monday May 10^th, 2004

9:00 Welcome and Coffee

9:10 Tom Snijders:
Introduction to stochastic actor-oriented modeling
of the simultaneous dynamics of networks and behavior.
(abstract, presentation)

9:50 Michael Pearson:
Dynamic Effects in Drifting Smoke Rings.
(abstract, presentation)

10:30 Christian Steglich, Tom Snijders and Michael Pearson:
The Statistical Analysis of the Dynamics of Networks and Behaviour:
An Application of SIENA to the Co-evolution of Adolescent Smoking
and Friendship Networks.
(abstract, presentation)

11:10 Coffee break

11:20 Karl E. Bauman and Bob Faris:
Social Network Characteristics and Drug Use:
Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors.
(abstract, presentation)

12:00 Hein de Vries and Juliette Rahman:
Processes of Friend Influence and Friend Selection in the
Development of Adolescent Smoking Behavior.
(abstract)

12:40 Lunch break (1˝ hours)

14:10 Vincent Buskens and Jeroen Weesie:
The emergence of social conventions.
(abstract, presentation)

14:50 Arno Riedl and Aljaz Ule:
Cooperation, Exclusion, and Social Structure in Network Experiments.
(abstract, presentation)

15:30 Coffee break

15:40 Marko Pahor:
Effects of corporate networks on company's performance.
(abstract, presentation)

16:20 Michael Schweinberger:
Statistical Modeling of Network Dynamics Given Panel Data: Goodness-of-fit.
(abstract, presentation)

17:00 End

Tuesday May 11^th, 2004

9:00 Dan McFarland and Skye Bender-deMoll:
Classroom Structuration – Tying Interaction Dynamics
to Social Structure Stability.
(abstract, presentation)

9:40 Skye Bender-deMoll and Dan McFarland:
Interaction, Time, and Motion: Animating Social Networks with SoNIA.
(abstract, presentation)

10:20 Coffee break

10:30 Andrea Knecht and Chris Baerveldt:
Friendship and Delinquency of Adolescents.
(abstract, presentation)

11:10 Marc Boulay:
Program-stimulated change in network composition and behavior.
(abstract, presentation)

11:50 Coffee break

12:00 Andrej Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj:
Visualization of Temporal Networks.
(abstract, presentation)

12:40 Chunke Su, Douglas Steinley, Katherine J. Klein and Noshir Contractor:
Co-evolution of Team Members’ Attachment to the Team and Team Interpersonal Networks.
(abstract, presentation)

13:20 Lunch break (1˝ hours)

14:50 Garry Robins and Michael Johnston:
Joint social selection and social influence models for social networks:
The interplay of ties and attributes.
(abstract, presentation)

15:30 Eugene Johnsen:
Social Influence Networks and Group Dynamics: Attitude Change and Behavior.
(abstract)

16:10 End

The symposium is organized by Tom Snijders and associated to the research program Dynamics of Networks and Behavior which is a collaborative programme of the universities of Groningen and Utrecht (Research Center and Graduate school ICS) and Maastricht (Department of Health Promotion and Health Education). Click here for the official announcement of the Satellite Symposium.

If you have any comments on this webpage, please contact Christian Steglich.