12th International Conference on Computational Social Science

12th International Conference on Computational Social Science

University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA, July 28–31, 2026

The International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be hosted by the Vermont complex systems institute at the University of Vermont in Burlington, from July 28-31, 2026. IC2S2 has emerged as the dominant conference at the intersection of social and computational science, bringing together researchers from around the world in sociology, economics, political science, psychology, cognitive science, management, computer science, statistics and the full range of natural and applied sciences committed to understanding the social world through large-scale data and computation. 

Conference Fields:

• Network analysis of social systems
• Large-scale social experiments
• Empirically calibrated simulation models
• Large language models for social research
• Text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) of social phenomena
• Analysis of meaning through computational analysis of text, images, audio, video, etc.
• Computational methods to map and study cultural patterns and dynamics
• Agent-based or other simulation of social phenomena
• Methods and issues of social data collection
• Images as social data
• Causal inference and machine learning
• Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational social data
• Integration and triangulation of multi-modal social and cultural data
• Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication dynamics
• Neural network methods for social analysis and policy exploration
• Reproducibility in computational social science research
• Theoretical discussions/concepts in computational social science
• Ethics of computational research on human behavior
• Issues of inclusivity in computational social science
• Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability and trustworthiness
• Novel digital data and/or computational analyses for addressing societal challenges
• Social news curation and collaborative filtering
• Building and evaluating socio-technical systems
• Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making
• Science and technology studies approaches to computational science work
• Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in computational social science
• Computational social science research in industry, government, and philanthropy
• Practical problems in computational social science

Conference website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/