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Social Informatics

4th International Conference, SocInfo 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 5-7, 2012, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Karl Aberer

    1. Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR), School for Computer and Communication Science (I&C), EPFL-IC,, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  2. Andreas Flache

    1. Department of Sociology, ICS, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  3. Wander Jager

    1. Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  4. Ling Liu

    1. Georgia Institute of Technology, KACB, room 3340,School of Computer Science, College of Computing, Atlanta, USA

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  5. Jie Tang

    1. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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  6. Christophe Guéret

    1. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Den Haag, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7710)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. A System for Web Widget Discovery Using Semantic Distance between User Intent and Social Tags

    • Zhenzhen Zhao, Xiaodi Huang, Noël Crespi
    Pages 1-14

  3. An Automated Multiscale Map of Conversations: Mothers and Matters

    • Ansuya Ahluwalia, Allen Huang, Roja Bandari, Vwani Roychowdhury
    Pages 15-28

  4. How Influential Are You: Detecting Influential Bloggers in a Blogging Community

    • Imrul Kayes, Xiaoning Qian, John Skvoretz, Adriana Iamnitchi
    Pages 29-42

  5. A Simulation Model Using Transaction Cost Economics to Analyze the Impact of Social Media on Online Shopping

    • Apratim Mukherjee, Shrabastee Banerjee, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
    Pages 43-53

  6. Predicting Group Evolution in the Social Network

    • Piotr Bródka, Przemysław Kazienko, Bartosz Kołoszczyk
    Pages 54-67

  7. Interpolating between Random Walks and Shortest Paths: A Path Functional Approach

    • François Bavaud, Guillaume Guex
    Pages 68-81

  8. Dynamic Targeting in an Online Social Medium

    • Peter Laflin, Alexander V. Mantzaris, Fiona Ainley, Amanda Otley, Peter Grindrod, Desmond J. Higham
    Pages 82-95

  9. Connecting with Active People Matters: The Influence of an Online Community on Physical Activity Behavior

    • Maartje Groenewegen, Dimo Stoyanov, Dirk Deichmann, Aart van Halteren
    Pages 96-109

  10. Detecting Overlapping Communities in Location-Based Social Networks

    • Zhu Wang, Daqing Zhang, Dingqi Yang, Zhiyong Yu, Xingshe Zhou
    Pages 110-123

  11. CrowdLang: A Programming Language for the Systematic Exploration of Human Computation Systems

    • Patrick Minder, Abraham Bernstein
    Pages 124-137

  12. Experiments in Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis in Discussion Forums

    • Hatem Ghorbel
    Pages 138-151

  13. Quality Assessment of User Comments on Mobile Platforms Considering Channel of Activation and Platform Design

    • Christopher Fröch, Martin Schumann
    Pages 152-161

  14. A Method Based on Congestion Game Theory for Determining Electoral Tendencies

    • Guillermo De Ita, Luis Altamirano, Aurelio López-López, Yolanda Moyao
    Pages 162-173

  15. A Model to Represent Human Social Relationships in Social Network Graphs

    • Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Fabio Pezzoni
    Pages 174-187

  16. C4PS - Helping Facebookers Manage Their Privacy Settings

    • Thomas Paul, Martin Stopczynski, Daniel Puscher, Melanie Volkamer, Thorsten Strufe
    Pages 188-201

  17. Dynamic “Participative Rules” in Serious Games, New Ways for Evaluation?

    • Jean-Pierre Cahier, Nour El Mawas, Aurélien Bénel
    Pages 202-215

  18. Mobile Phones, Family and Personal Relationships: The Case of Indonesian Micro-entrepreneurs

    • Misita Anwar, Graeme Johanson
    Pages 216-231

  19. An Analysis of Topical Proximity in the Twitter Social Graph

    • Markus Schaal, John O’Donovan, Barry Smyth
    Pages 232-245

  20. A Foresight Support System to Manage Knowledge on Information Society Evolution

    • Andrzej M. J. Skulimowski
    Pages 246-259
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2012, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 21 full papers, 18 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: social choice mechanisms in the e-society,computational models of social phenomena, social simulation, web mining and its social interpretations, algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies, socio-economic systems and applications, trust, privacy, risk and security in social contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR), School for Computer and Communication Science (I&C), EPFL-IC,, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

  • Department of Sociology, ICS, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Andreas Flache

  • Groningen Center for Social Complexity Studies, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Wander Jager

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, KACB, room 3340,School of Computer Science, College of Computing, Atlanta, USA

    Ling Liu

  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Jie Tang

  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Den Haag, The Netherlands

    Christophe Guéret

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