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Social Informatics

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

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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)

Conference series link(s): SocInfo: International Conference on Social Informatics

Conference proceedings info: SocInfo 2012.

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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

    • Ansuya Ahluwalia, Allen Huang, Roja Bandari, Vwani Roychowdhury
    Pages 15-28
  3. How Influential Are You: Detecting Influential Bloggers in a Blogging Community

    • Imrul Kayes, Xiaoning Qian, John Skvoretz, Adriana Iamnitchi
    Pages 29-42
  4. 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
  5. Predicting Group Evolution in the Social Network

    • Piotr Bródka, Przemysław Kazienko, Bartosz Kołoszczyk
    Pages 54-67
  6. Dynamic Targeting in an Online Social Medium

    • Peter Laflin, Alexander V. Mantzaris, Fiona Ainley, Amanda Otley, Peter Grindrod, Desmond J. Higham
    Pages 82-95
  7. 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
  8. Detecting Overlapping Communities in Location-Based Social Networks

    • Zhu Wang, Daqing Zhang, Dingqi Yang, Zhiyong Yu, Xingshe Zhou
    Pages 110-123
  9. A Method Based on Congestion Game Theory for Determining Electoral Tendencies

    • Guillermo De Ita, Luis Altamirano, Aurelio López-López, Yolanda Moyao
    Pages 162-173
  10. A Model to Represent Human Social Relationships in Social Network Graphs

    • Marco Conti, Andrea Passarella, Fabio Pezzoni
    Pages 174-187
  11. C4PS - Helping Facebookers Manage Their Privacy Settings

    • Thomas Paul, Martin Stopczynski, Daniel Puscher, Melanie Volkamer, Thorsten Strufe
    Pages 188-201
  12. Dynamic “Participative Rules” in Serious Games, New Ways for Evaluation?

    • Jean-Pierre Cahier, Nour El Mawas, Aurélien Bénel
    Pages 202-215
  13. An Analysis of Topical Proximity in the Twitter Social Graph

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

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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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