We seek contributions addressing issues related to the economic, political and socio-cultural dimensions of creativity and encourage a variety of approaches on the matter. Topics: Creativity and class; Peer production, cinema and music; Media piracy; Self-media production and social media...

The event will feature plenary sessions and special roundtables devoted to the most pressing issues relating to Russia’s social and economic development. Although authors are not required to restrict themselves to these topics, the Programme Committee will nevertheless give priority to those...

Topics - Problems of the adequacy of official statistical observations relevant control tasks (official statistics) - Mathematical statistics - Economic statistics: Business statistics; Agricultural statistics; Input-output tables and the value-added chain - Social and legal statistics - Young...

Topics: 1. Theory and methodology of applied statistics and econometrics. 2. Application of Applied Statistics and Econometrics: 2.1. in economics, political and social sciences; 2.2. in demography and population statistics; 2.3. in management. 3. Probability models of financial mathematics.

Special topics of the conference are: - Governance: models, problems, challenges; - Cultural evolution and modernization; - Inequality and Economic Growth; - Varieties of Capitalism.

The IAOS 2012 conference will focus on how statistical offices are ensuring that the key messages in their statistics are getting through to users and are adding value to decision making. In particular it will cover: - Standards for statistical reporting and commentary writing: using plain and...