Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction : 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012, Proceedings

by Yang, Shanchieh Jay; Greenberg, Ariel M.; Endsley, Mica

• ISBN13: 9783642290466
• ISBN10: 3642290469
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-04
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, held in College Park, MD, USA, in April 2012. The 43 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including economics, public health, and terrorist activities, as well as utilize a broad variety of methodologies, e.g., machine learning, cultural modeling and cognitive modeling.

Table of Contents

Consensus under Constraints: Modeling the Great English Vowel Shift	p. 1
A Study of Informational Support Exchanges in MedHelp Alcoholism Community	p. 9
Real-World Behavior Analysis through a Social Media Lens	p. 18
The Mythology of Game Theory	p. 27
Crowdsourced Cyber Defense: Lessons from a Large-Scale, Game-Based Approach to Threat Identification on a Live Network	p. 35
How Many Makes a Crowd? On the Evolution of Learning as a Factor of Community Coverage	p. 43
Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Signed Graphs under a Balance Constraint	p. 53
Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities	p. 61
Opinion Dynamics in Gendered Social Networks: An Examination of Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan	p. 69
Socio-cultural Evolution of Opinion Dynamics in Networked Societies	p. 78
A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Intervention Programs on Social Media	p. 87
Trends Prediction Using Social Diffusion Models	p. 97
Towards Democratic Group Detection in Complex Networks	p. 105
Addiction Dynamics May Explain the Slow Decline of Smoking Prevalence	p. 114
Love All, Trust a Few: Link Prediction for Trust and Psycho-social Factors in MMOs	p. 123
Effect of In/Out-Degree Correlation on Influence Degree of Two Contrasting Information Diffusion Models	p. 131
A Computer-in-the-Loop Approach for Detecting Bullies in the Classroom	p. 139
Beyond Validation: Alternative Uses and Associated Assessments of Goodness for Computational Social Models	p. 147
Predicting Recent Links in FOAF Networks	p. 156
Mapping the Twitterverse in the Developing World: An Analysis of Social Media Use in Nigeria	p. 164
Modeling Infection with Multi-agent Dynamics	p. 172
Dynamic Multi-chain Graphical Model for Psychosocial and Behavioral Profiles in Childhood Obesity	p. 180
The Imperative for Social Competency Prediction	p. 188
Partitioning Signed Bipartite Graphs for Classification of Individuals and Organizations	p. 196
Information and Attitude Diffusion in Networks	p. 205
Using Mixed-Mode Networks to Disentangle Multiple Sources of Social Influence	p. 214
Implicit Group Membership Detection in Online Text: Analysis and Applications	p. 222
Automatic Crime Prediction Using Events Extracted from Twitter Posts	p. 231
Dynamic, Covert Network Simulation	p. 239
Computing the Value of a Crowd	p. 248
Mnemonic Convergence: From Empirical Data to Large-Scale Dynamics	p. 256
Sizing Strategies in Scarce Environments	p. 266
Applying System Dynamics to Military Operations	p. 274
Lessons Learned in Using Social Media for Disaster Relief - ASU Crisis Response Game	p. 282
Intergroup Prisoner's Dilemma with Intragroup Power Dynamics and individual Power Drive	p. 290
Modeling South African Service Protests Using the National Operational Environment Model	p. 298
Modeling and Estimating Individual and Population Obesity Dynamics	p. 306
Creating Interaction Environments: Denning a Two-Sided Market Model of the Development and Dominance of Platforms	p. 314
The Impact of Attitude Resolve on Population Wide Attitude Change	p. 322
The Impact of Network Structure on the Perturbation Dynamics of a Multi-agent Economic Model	p. 331
Robust Recommendations Using Regularized Link Analysis of Browsing Behavior Graphs	p. 339
Whodunit? Collective Trust in Virtual Interactions	p. 348
Towards Building and Analyzing a Social Network of Acknowledgments in Scientific and Academic Documents	p. 357
Author Index	p. 365
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