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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

14th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2021, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Robert Thomson

    1. United States Military Academy, West Point, USA

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  2. Muhammad Nihal Hussain

    1. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USA

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  3. Christopher Dancy

    1. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA

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  4. Aryn Pyke

    1. United States Military Academy, West Point, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12720)

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

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Table of contents (32 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. COVID-Related Focus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Malicious and Low Credibility URLs on Twitter During the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Development

      • Sameera Horawalavithana, Ravindu De Silva, Mohamed Nabeel, Charitha Elvitigala, Primal Wijesekara, Adriana Iamnitchi
      Pages 3-12

    3. How Political is the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States?

      • Karan Vombatkere, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
      Pages 13-22

    4. Applying an Epidemiological Model to Evaluate the Propagation of Misinformation and Legitimate COVID-19-Related Information on Twitter

      • Maryam Maleki, Mohammad Arani, Erik Buchholz, Esther Mead, Nitin Agarwal
      Pages 23-34

    5. Optimization of Mitigation Strategies During Epidemics Using Offline Reinforcement Learning

      • Alina Vereshchaka, Nitin Kulkarni
      Pages 35-45

    6. Mining Online Social Media to Drive Psychologically Valid Agent Models of Regional Covid-19 Mask Wearing

      • Peter Pirolli, Kathleen M. Carley, Adam Dalton, Bonnie J. Dorr, Christian Lebiere, Michael K. Martin et al.
      Pages 46-56

    7. Fine-Grained Analysis of the Use of Neutral and Controversial Terms for COVID-19 on Social Media

      • Long Chen, Hanjia Lyu, Tongyu Yang, Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo
      Pages 57-67

  3. Methodologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Assessing Bias in YouTube’s Video Recommendation Algorithm in a Cross-lingual and Cross-topical Context

      • Baris Kirdemir, Joseph Kready, Esther Mead, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Nitin Agarwal, Donald Adjeroh
      Pages 71-80

    3. Formal Methods for an Iterated Volunteer’s Dilemma

      • Jacob Dineen, A. S. M. Ahsan-Ul Haque, Matthew Bielskas
      Pages 81-90

    4. Privacy Preserving Text Representation Learning Using BERT

      • Walaa Alnasser, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu
      Pages 91-100

    5. GPU Accelerated PMCMC Algorithm with System Dynamics Modelling

      • Lujie Duan, Nathaniel Osgood
      Pages 101-110

    6. An Analysis of Global News Coverage of Refugees Using a Big Data Approach

      • Veysel Yesilbas, Jose J. Padilla, Erika Frydenlund
      Pages 111-120

    7. An Identity-Based Framework for Generalizable Hate Speech Detection

      • Joshua Uyheng, Kathleen M. Carley
      Pages 121-130

    8. Using Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Study Connective Action Campaigns

      • Billy Spann, Maryam Maleki, Esther Mead, Erik Buchholz, Nitin Agarwal, Therese Williams
      Pages 131-140

    9. Reinforcement Learning for Data Poisoning on Graph Neural Networks

      • Jacob Dineen, A. S. M. Ahsan-Ul Haque, Matthew Bielskas
      Pages 141-150

  4. Social Cybersecurity and Social Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Simulating Social-Cyber Maneuvers to Deter Disinformation Campaigns

      • Janice T. Blane, J. D. Moffitt, Kathleen M. Carley
      Pages 153-163

    3. Studying the Role of Social Bots During Cyber Flash Mobs

      • Samer Al-khateeb, Madelyn Anderson, Nitin Agarwal
      Pages 164-173
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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2021, which was held online during July 6–9, 2021.

The 32 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: COVID-related focus; methodologies; social cybersecurity and social networks; and human and agent modeling. They represent a wide number of disciplines including computer science, psychology, sociology, communication science, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science. Numerous types of computational methods are used including, but not limited to, machine learning, language technology, social network analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation, and statistics. 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • United States Military Academy, West Point, USA

    Robert Thomson, Aryn Pyke

  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USA

    Muhammad Nihal Hussain

  • Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA

    Christopher Dancy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

  • Book Subtitle: 14th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–9, 2021, Proceedings

  • Editors: Robert Thomson, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Christopher Dancy, Aryn Pyke

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80387-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80386-5Published: 05 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80387-2Published: 03 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 342

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Applications, Computer Communication Networks, Machine Learning, Database Management

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