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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction

6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Washington, DC, USA, April 2-5, 2013, Proceedings

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Table of contents (57 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Behavioral Science

    1. The Evolution of Paternal Care

      • Mauricio Salgado
      Pages 1-10
    2. Influence and Power in Group Interactions

      • Tomek Strzalkowski, Samira Shaikh, Ting Liu, George Aaron Broadwell, Jenny Stromer-Galley, Sarah Taylor et al.
      Pages 19-27
    3. The Marketcast Method for Aggregating Prediction Market Forecasts

      • Pavel Atanasov, Phillip Rescober, Eric Stone, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Barbara Mellers, Philip Tetlock et al.
      Pages 28-37
    4. Peer Nominations and Its Relation to Interactions in a Computer Game

      • Juan F. Mancilla-Caceres, Eyal Amir, Dorothy Espelage
      Pages 38-47
    5. Predicting Personality Using Novel Mobile Phone-Based Metrics

      • Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Jordi Quoidbach, Florent Robic, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
      Pages 48-55
    6. Moral Values from Simple Game Play

      • Eunkyung Kim, Ravi Iyer, Jesse Graham, Yu-Han Chang, Rajiv Maheswaran
      Pages 56-64
    7. An Agent-Based Model for Simultaneous Phone and SMS Traffic over Time

      • Kenneth Joseph, Wei Wei, Kathleen M. Carley
      Pages 65-74
    8. Reconstructing Online Behaviors by Effort Minimization

      • Armin Ashouri Rad, Hazhir Rahmandad
      Pages 75-82
    9. Using Imageability and Topic Chaining to Locate Metaphors in Linguistic Corpora

      • George Aaron Broadwell, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Tomek Strzalkowski, Laurie Feldman, Sarah Taylor et al.
      Pages 102-110
    10. Automated Trading in Prediction Markets

      • Anamaria Berea, Charles Twardy
      Pages 111-122
  3. Health Sciences

    1. Feedback Dynamic between Emotional Reinforcement and Healthy Eating: An Application of the Reciprocal Markov Model

      • Edward H. Ip, Qiang Zhang, Ji Lu, Patricia L. Mabry, Laurette Dube
      Pages 135-143
    2. Testing the Foundations of Quantal Response Equilibrium

      • Mathew D. McCubbins, Mark Turner, Nicholas Weller
      Pages 144-153
    3. Modeling the Social Response to a Disease Outbreak

      • Jane Evans, Shannon Fast, Natasha Markuzon
      Pages 154-163
    4. Discovering Consumer Health Expressions from Consumer-Contributed Content

      • Ling Jiang, Christopher C. Yang, Jiexun Li
      Pages 164-174

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA in April 2013. The total of 57 contributions, which consists of papers and posters, included in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. This conference is strongly committed to multidisciplinarity, consistent with recent trends in computational social science and related fields. The topics covered are: behavioral science, health sciences, military science and information science. There are also many papers that provide methodological innovation as well as new domain-specific findings.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Ariel M. Greenberg, Nathan D. Bos

  • Center for Social Complexity, Department of Computational Social Science, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

    William G. Kennedy

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