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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction

4th International Conference, SBP 2011, College Park, MD, USA, March 29-31, 2011. Proceedings

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Table of contents (51 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Toward Culturally Informed Option Awareness for Influence Operations with S-CAT

    • Ken Murray, John Lowrance, Ken Sharpe, Doug Williams, Keith Grembam, Kim Holloman et al.
    Pages 2-9
  3. Optimization-Based Influencing of Village Social Networks in a Counterinsurgency

    • Benjamin W. K. Hung, Stephan E. Kolitz, Asuman Ozdaglar
    Pages 10-17
  4. Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter

    • Kyle W. Prier, Matthew S. Smith, Christophe Giraud-Carrier, Carl L. Hanson
    Pages 18-25
  5. Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups That Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons

    • Ronald L. Breiger, Gary A. Ackerman, Victor Asal, David Melamed, H. Brinton Milward, R. Karl Rethemeyer et al.
    Pages 26-33
  6. Cognitive Aspects of Power in a Two-Level Game

    • Ion Juvina, Christian Lebiere, Jolie Martin, Cleotilde Gonzalez
    Pages 34-41
  7. Predicting Demonstrations’ Violence Level Using Qualitative Reasoning

    • Natalie Fridman, Tomer Zilberstein, Gal A. Kaminka
    Pages 42-50
  8. A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Social Marginalization and Obesity

    • Andrea Apolloni, Achla Marathe, Zhengzheng Pan
    Pages 61-68
  9. Open Source Software Development: Communities’ Impact on Public Good

    • Helena Garriga, Sebastian Spaeth, Georg von Krogh
    Pages 69-77
  10. Location Privacy Protection on Social Networks

    • Justin Zhan, Xing Fang
    Pages 78-85
  11. Computational and Statistical Models: A Comparison for Policy Modeling of Childhood Obesity

    • Patricia L. Mabry, Ross Hammond, Edward Hak-Sing Ip, Terry T-K Huang
    Pages 87-88
  12. Detecting Changes in Opinion Value Distribution for Voter Model

    • Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, Kouzou Ohara, Hiroshi Motoda
    Pages 89-96
  13. Dynamic Simulation of Community Crime and Crime-Reporting Behavior

    • Michael A. Yonas, Jeffrey D. Borrebach, Jessica G. Burke, Shawn T. Brown, Katherine D. Philp, Donald S. Burke et al.
    Pages 97-104
  14. Model Docking Using Knowledge-Level Analysis

    • Ethan Trewhitt, Elizabeth Whitaker, Erica Briscoe, Lora Weiss
    Pages 105-112
  15. Using Web-Based Knowledge Extraction Techniques to Support Cultural Modeling

    • Paul R. Smart, Winston R. Sieck, Nigel R. Shadbolt
    Pages 113-120
  16. How Corruption Blunts Counternarcotic Policies in Afghanistan: A Multiagent Investigation

    • Armando Geller, Seyed M. Mussavi Rizi, Maciej M. Łatek
    Pages 121-128

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, held in College Park, MD, USA, March 29-31, 2011. The 48 papers and 3 keynotes presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including social network analysis; modeling; machine learning and data mining; social behaviors; public health; cultural aspects; and effects and search.

Keywords

  • Bayesian inference
  • agent-based simulation
  • cognitive modeling
  • complex social networks
  • coordinated search
  • cultural patterns
  • disease networks
  • evolutionary economics
  • group interaction
  • information aggregation
  • information extraction
  • link analysis
  • public health
  • social computation
  • statistical learning
  • stochastic search
  • virtual organization
  • web monitoring

Reviews

From the reviews:

“It consists of 51 contributions, including four keynotes and 46 short papers … all unified by the common thread given by the theme of the conference. … Social scientists can find a reliable measure of the evolution of the ‘computing’ field. Computer scientists can appreciate the growth of computational applications and eventually understand which are the tools more used in the field. Finally, mathematical psychologists can discover new approaches to social interaction and appreciate the stage of development of this field.” (Ugo Merlone, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • AFRL/RIEF, Rome, USA

    John Salerno

  • Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

    Shanchieh Jay Yang

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Dana Nau

  • Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    Sun-Ki Chai

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