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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction

8th International Conference, SBP 2015, Washington, DC, USA, March 31-April 3, 2015. Proceedings

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Table of contents (60 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Oral Presentations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. A Network-Based Model for Predicting Hashtag Breakouts in Twitter

      • Sultan Alzahrani, Saud Alashri, Anvesh Reddy Koppela, Hasan Davulcu, Ismail Toroslu
      Pages 3-12
    3. Are You Satisfied with Life?: Predicting Satisfaction with Life from Facebook

      • Susan Collins, Yizhou Sun, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Natasha Markuzon
      Pages 24-33
    4. Social Computing for Impact Assessment of Social Change Projects

      • Jana Diesner, Rezvaneh Rezapour
      Pages 34-43
    5. Social Network Extraction and High Value Individual (HVI) Identification within Fused Intelligence Data

      • Alireza Farasat, Geoff Gross, Rakesh Nagi, Alexander G. Nikolaev
      Pages 44-54
    6. Structural Properties of Ego Networks

      • Sidharth Gupta, Xiaoran Yan, Kristina Lerman
      Pages 55-64
    7. Conflict and Communication in Massively-Multiplayer Online Games

      • Alireza Hajibagheri, Kiran Lakkaraju, Gita Sukthankar, Rolf T. Wigand, Nitin Agarwal
      Pages 65-74
    8. The Impact of Human Behavioral Changes in 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak

      • Kun Hu, Simone Bianco, Stefan Edlund, James Kaufman
      Pages 75-84
    9. The Influence of Collaboration on Research Quality

      • Alla G. Khadka, Mike Byers
      Pages 111-120
    10. A Novel Mental State Model of Social Perception of Brand Crisis from an Entertainment Perspective

      • Rungsiman Nararatwong, Roberto Legaspi, Hitoshi Okada, Hiroshi Maruyama
      Pages 153-162
    11. Network-Based Group Account Classification

      • Patrick S. Park, Ryan F. Compton, Tsai-Ching Lu
      Pages 163-172
    12. Persistence in Voting Behavior: Stronghold Dynamics in Elections

      • Toni Pérez, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Jose J. Ramasco, Víctor M. Eguíluz
      Pages 173-181

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2015, held in Washington, DC, USA, in March/April 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 36 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The goal of the conference was to advance our understanding of human behavior through the development and application of mathematical, computational, statistical, simulation, predictive and other models that provide fundamental insights into factors contributing to human socio-cultural dynamics. The topical areas addressed by the papers are social and behavioral sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer and information science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA

    Nitin Agarwal

  • Technicolor Research, Los Altos, USA

    Kevin Xu

  • University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Nathaniel Osgood

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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