Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 7th International Conference, SBP 2014, Washington, DC, USA, April 1-4, 2014. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by William G. Kennedy, Nitin Agarwal, Shanchieh Jay Yang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8393 Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2014, held in Washington, DC, USA, in April 2014. The 51 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The SBP conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government agencies to exchange ideas on current challenges in social computing, behavioral-cultural modeling and prediction, and on state-of-the-art methods and best practices being adopted to tackle these challenges. The topical areas addressed by the papers are social and behavioral sciences, health sciences, military science, and information science.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Adaptive Heterogeneous Games and Social Systems....Pages 3-10
Mobility Patterns and User Dynamics in Racially Segregated Geographies of US Cities....Pages 11-18
Incorporating Interpretation into Risky Decision-Making....Pages 19-26
Labeling Actors in Social Networks Using a Heterogeneous Graph Kernel....Pages 27-34
Sample Size Determination to Detect Cusp Catastrophe in Stochastic Cusp Catastrophe Model: A Monte-Carlo Simulation-Based Approach....Pages 35-41
Who Will Follow a New Topic Tomorrow?....Pages 43-50
Identifying Emergent Thought Leaders....Pages 51-58
System-Subsystem Dependency Network for Integrating Multicomponent Data and Application to Health Sciences....Pages 59-66
How Individuals Weigh Their Previous Estimates to Make a New Estimate in the Presence or Absence of Social Influence....Pages 67-74
Two 1%s Don’t Make a Whole: Comparing Simultaneous Samples from Twitter’s Streaming API....Pages 75-83
Estimating Social Network Structure and Propagation Dynamics for an Infectious Disease....Pages 85-93
Predicting Social Ties in Massively Multiplayer Online Games....Pages 95-102
Winning by Following the Winners: Mining the Behaviour of Stock Market Experts in Social Media....Pages 103-110
Quantifying Political Legitimacy from Twitter....Pages 111-118
Path Following in Social Web Search....Pages 119-127
Multi-objective Optimization for Multi-level Networks....Pages 129-136
Cover Your Cough! Quantifying the Benefits of a Localized Healthy Behavior Intervention on Flu Epidemics in Washington DC....Pages 137-144
Integrating Epidemiological Modeling and Surveillance Data Feeds: A Kalman Filter Based Approach....Pages 145-152
Identifying Users with Opposing Opinions in Twitter Debates....Pages 153-160
A New Approach for Item Ranking Based on Review Scores Reflecting Temporal Trust Factor....Pages 161-168
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Segmenting Large-Scale Cyber Attacks for Online Behavior Model Generation....Pages 169-177
Emergent Consequences: Unexpected Behaviors in a Simple Model to Support Innovation Adoption, Planning, and Evaluation....Pages 179-186
Deriving Population Assessment through Opinion Polls, Text Analytics, and Agent-Based Modeling....Pages 187-194
mFingerprint: Privacy-Preserving User Modeling with Multimodal Mobile Device Footprints....Pages 195-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Using Trust Model for Detecting Malicious Activities in Twitter....Pages 207-214
Predicting Guild Membership in Massively Multiplayer Online Games....Pages 215-222
Emoticon and Text Production in First and Second Languages in Informal Text Communication....Pages 223-228
The Needs of Metaphor....Pages 229-236
Behavior in the Time of Cholera: Evidence from the 2008-2009 Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe....Pages 237-244
Mutual Information Technique in Assessing Crosstalk through a Random-Pairing Bootstrap Method....Pages 245-252
New Methods of Mapping....Pages 253-260
A New Paradigm for the Study of Corruption in Different Cultures....Pages 261-268
A Study of Mobile Information Exploration with Multi-touch Interactions....Pages 269-276
Dyadic Attribution: A Theoretical Model for Interpreting Online Words and Actions....Pages 277-284
Modeling Impact of Social Stratification on the Basis of Time Allocation Heuristics in Society....Pages 285-292
The Social Aspect of Voting for Useful Reviews....Pages 293-300
Simulating International Energy Security....Pages 301-308
Team PsychoSocial Assessment via Discourse Analysis: Power and Comfort/Routine....Pages 309-316
Social TV and the Social Soundtrack: Significance of Second Screen Interaction during Television Viewing....Pages 317-324
Social Network Structures of Primary Health Care Teams Associated with Health Outcomes in Alcohol Drinkers with Diabetes....Pages 325-332
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Emerging Dynamics in Crowdfunding Campaigns....Pages 333-340
Incorporating Social Theories in Computational Behavioral Models....Pages 341-349
Contexts of Diffusion: Adoption of Research Synthesis in Social Work and Women’s Studies....Pages 351-358
Temporal Dynamics of Scale-Free Networks....Pages 359-366
Big Data-Driven Marketing: How Machine Learning Outperforms Marketers’ Gut-Feeling....Pages 367-374
“Frogs in a Pot”: An Agent-Based Model of Well-Being versus Prosperity....Pages 375-383
Frabjous: A Declarative Domain-Specific Language for Agent-Based Modeling....Pages 385-392
Social Maintenance and Psychological Support Using Virtual Worlds....Pages 393-402
Civil Unrest Prediction: A Tumblr-Based Exploration....Pages 403-411
Studying the Evolution of Online Collective Action: Saudi Arabian Women’s ‘Oct26Driving’ Twitter Campaign....Pages 413-420
A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Programs on Web Forum and Facebook....Pages 421-429
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Inter