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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction

5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012, Proceedings

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Table of contents (43 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Consensus under Constraints: Modeling the Great English Vowel Shift

    • Kiran Lakkaraju, Samarth Swarup, Les Gasser
    Pages 1-8
  3. A Study of Informational Support Exchanges in MedHelp Alcoholism Community

    • Katherine Y. Chuang, Christopher C. Yang
    Pages 9-17
  4. Real-World Behavior Analysis through a Social Media Lens

    • Mohammad-Ali Abbasi, Sun-Ki Chai, Huan Liu, Kiran Sagoo
    Pages 18-26
  5. The Mythology of Game Theory

    • Mathew D. McCubbins, Mark Turner, Nicholas Weller
    Pages 27-34
  6. Crowdsourced Cyber Defense: Lessons from a Large-Scale, Game-Based Approach to Threat Identification on a Live Network

    • Barton Paulhamus, Alison Ebaugh, C. C. Boylls, Nathan Bos, Sandy Hider, Stephen Giguere
    Pages 35-42
  7. How Many Makes a Crowd? On the Evolution of Learning as a Factor of Community Coverage

    • Yaniv Altshuler, Michael Fire, Nadav Aharony, Yuval Elovici, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
    Pages 43-52
  8. Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities

    • David Melamed, Eric Schoon, Ronald Breiger, Victor Asal, R. Karl Rethemeyer
    Pages 61-68
  9. Opinion Dynamics in Gendered Social Networks: An Examination of Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan

    • Thomas W. Moore, Patrick D. Finley, Ryan J. Hammer, Robert J. Glass
    Pages 69-77
  10. Socio-cultural Evolution of Opinion Dynamics in Networked Societies

    • Subhadeep Chakraborty, Matthew M. Mench
    Pages 78-86
  11. A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Intervention Programs on Social Media

    • Mi Zhang, Christopher C. Yang, Jiexun Li
    Pages 87-96
  12. Trends Prediction Using Social Diffusion Models

    • Yaniv Altshuler, Wei Pan, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
    Pages 97-104
  13. Towards Democratic Group Detection in Complex Networks

    • Michele Coscia, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi
    Pages 105-113
  14. Addiction Dynamics May Explain the Slow Decline of Smoking Prevalence

    • Gaurav Tuli, Madhav Marathe, S. S. Ravi, Samarth Swarup
    Pages 114-122
  15. Love All, Trust a Few: Link Prediction for Trust and Psycho-social Factors in MMOs

    • Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Zoheb Borbora, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor
    Pages 123-130
  16. Effect of In/Out-Degree Correlation on Influence Degree of Two Contrasting Information Diffusion Models

    • Kouzou Ohara, Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Motoda
    Pages 131-138
  17. A Computer-in-the-Loop Approach for Detecting Bullies in the Classroom

    • Juan F. Mancilla-Caceres, Wen Pu, Eyal Amir, Dorothy Espelage
    Pages 139-146
  18. Beyond Validation: Alternative Uses and Associated Assessments of Goodness for Computational Social Models

    • Jessica Glicken Turnley, Peter A. Chew, Aaron S. Perls
    Pages 147-155
  19. Predicting Recent Links in FOAF Networks

    • Hung-Hsuan Chen, Liang Gou, Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, C. Lee Giles
    Pages 156-163

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Shanchieh Jay Yang

  • Applied Physics Laboratory, Research and Exploratory Development Department, Johns Hopkings University, Laurel, USA

    Ariel M. Greenberg

  • SA Technologies, Marietta, USA

    Mica Endsley

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