Networks — Processes and Causality
Modeling, understanding and controlling processes and activity that take place over
increasingly larger networks (such as information propagation, social influence, opiniondynamics, epidemics etc.), as well as causal inference (such as causal
modeling, determination of causal effects, and structure learning), have both received considerable attention
in the recent years. Yet, so far the research communities of networks and causality
are largely separated.
We believe, however, that they share many goals and concepts. The goal of this workshop is to bring together outstanding
researchers from both areas in order to discuss possible interconnections between the two research fields. Potential
starting points for such a discussion could --but
are by no means limited to-- be: "Network modeling with Structural Equation Models, ODEs and SDEs",
"Influence of interventions on networks" or "Distinguishing homophily and influence on networks".
The workshop will consist of short invited talks and plenty of time for lively discussions and it is co-located with the
first DALI conference in beautiful La
Palma, during April 10-12, 2015. DALI is
a new venue that aims to combine the special
qualities of the former Snowbird meetings
(intimate atmosphere, very good people, plenty of time to interact) with positive aspects of larger conferences that rarely take place in Europe
The workshop is organized by Jonas Peters, Manuel
Gomez Rodriguez, and Andreas Krause. The chairs of DALI proper are Zoubin
Ghahramani, Thomas Hofmann,
Neil
Lawrence and Bernhard
Schoelkopf