Programme

NET2008: Meeting Programme

All lectures will be held in the Faculty of Sociology, Piazza Venezia 41, Classroom 411, 4th floor.

1. - Thursday 12, June 

14.30	Welcome speech, prof. Davide La Valle (head of the department of Sociology) and prof. Mario Diani (dean of the Faculty of Sociology)
14.45	Invited lecture: Raffaele Corrado - Structure, Agency, Complexity and Models of Network Evolution
	Networks in Finance (chairman Rosanna Grassi)
15.45	Ownership, Control and Hierarchical Paths in Networks of Firms - Giulia Rotundo, Anna Maria D'Arcangelis
16.15	Corporate Board Network and Efficiency in the Italian Stock Exchange - Rosanna Grassi, Arturo Patarnello, Ewelina Szpilska
16.45	Coffee break
	Industrial Sector Networks (chairman Massimo Riccaboni)
17.00	Interdependent Preferences with Heterogeneous Consumers - Fabio Tramontana, Ahmad Naimzada
17.30	The persistence of Leadership in Business Firm Networks - Massimo Riccaboni, Maksim Kirtsak, Shlomo Havlin, Fabio Pammolli, Eugene Stanley

2. - Friday 13, June

	Industrial Sector Networks (chairman Gian Italo Bischi)
9.00	Research Dynamics Networks in a Oligopoly Market - Ahmad Naimzada, Fabio Tramontana
9.30	Social Entrepreneurship Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in networks - Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone
10.00	International Trade and Financial Integration: a weighted Network Analysis - Giorgio Fagiolo, Javier Reyes, Stefano Schiavo
10.30	Networks of R&D collaboration in oligopoly competition with spillover - Gian Italo Bischi, Fabio Lamantia
11.00	Coffee break
11.15	Invited lecture: Steve Borgatti - Models of Centrality in Network Analysis Today
	Networks and Social Structure (chairman Emanuela Todeva)
14.15	IT Communication Networks and Privacy Perception among Classmates - Francesca Odella
14.45	The Network of Sports in Italy - Laura Savoia
15.15	Network Dynamics and Evolution: in search for understanding of network processes - Emanuela Todeva
15.45	Coffee break
16.00	FBK contribution - student corner (chairman Stefano Benati) - An Analysis of FBK Internal Social Network

3. - Saturday 14, June 

	New Indices and Methods for Network Analysis (chairman Marco Fattore)
9.00	From Centrality to Power: the calculation of the Banzhaf Index for Graphs Games - Stefano benati, Serena Ciani, Romeo Rizzi
9.30	Some Trees  Topological Descriptors - Silvana Stefani, Anna Torriero
10.00	A Fuzzy Logic Based Approach for Social Networks Analysis - Matteo Brunelli
10.30	Representing Poverty Complexity by Fuzzy Partial Orders and Graphs - Marco Fattore, Paola Annoni
11.00	Coffee break
11.15	Invited lecture: Vladimir Batagelj - Algorithms for analysis of large networks