***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** We are now taking registration for the *2016 CASOS Summer Institute*. This week long event provides an intense hands-on introduction to network analysis and visualization from a combined social-network, network-science, link-analysis and dynamic network analysis perspective. Participants learn about current trends, practices, and tools available for social networks analysis, link analysis, simulation, and multi-agent modeling. Basic social network and dynamic network representations, statistics, analysis and visualization techniques are covered. Techniques for designing, analyzing, and validating computational models with and without network components are presented. There is also an emphasis on appropriate and inappropriate ways to critique computational models and network analyses. The strengths and weaknesses of computational and network approaches to examining complex socio-technical issues are discussed. Multiple computational platforms are explored and hands-on experience are provided. An examination of social network methods, complexity theory and procedures for integrating network-based metrics and statistics into computational models completes the program. The software tools participants will learn and work with include: ORA, AutoMap/NetMapper, and Construct, which are network analysis, information extraction, and simulations tools, respectively, that are developed at CASOS and widely used globally in business, government, and education. You can register at: https://starrez.housing.cmu.edu/StarRezPortalConference/Modules/Conference/ConferenceDetails.aspx?Params=L9ezxPcQnQvo2mu47qXm1G03uXNqEECHi%2fvin51ezp7wPRM3bP0az2KlJb42%2fcn%2f You can also visit our website for more information about the program: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/summer_institute/2016/ We look forward to seeing you this summer! CASOS, Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave, 4212 Wean Hall Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890 [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 412-268-3163 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.