Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction

Table of Contents.-Oral Presentations.- Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Adaptive Heterogeneous Games and Social Systems.- Mobility Patterns and User Dynamics in Racially Segregated Geographies of US Cities.- Incorporating Interpretation into Risky Decision-Making: A Computational Model.- Labeling Actors in Social Networks Using a Heterogeneous Graph Kernel.- Sample Size Determination to Detect Cusp Catastrophe in Stochastic Cusp Catastrophe Model: A Monte-Carlo Simulation-Based Approach.- Who Will Follow a New Topic Tomorrow?.- Identifying Emergent Thought Leaders.- System-Subsystem Dependency Network for Integrating Multicomponent Data and Application to Health Sciences.- How Individuals Weigh Their Previous Estimates to Make a New Estimate in the Presence or Absence of Social Influence.- Two 1%s Don’t Make a Whole: Comparing Simultaneous Samples from Twitter’s Streaming API.- Estimating Social Network Structure and Propagation Dynamics for an Infectious Disease.- Predicting Social Ties in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.- Winning by Following the Winners: Mining the Behaviour of Stock Market Experts in Social Media.- Quantifying Political Legitimacy from Twitter.- Path Following in Social Web Search.- Multi-objective Optimization for Multi-level Networks.- Cover Your Cough! Quantifying the Benefits of a Localized Healthy Behavior Intervention on Flu Epidemics in Washington DC.- Integrating Epidemiological Modeling and Surveillance Data Feeds: A Kalman Filter Based Approach.- Identifying Users with Opposing Opinions in Twitter Debates.- A New Approach for Item Ranking Based on Review Scores Reflecting Temporal Trust Factor.- Segmenting Large-Scale Cyber Attacks for Online Behavior Model Generation.- Emergent Consequences: Unexpected Behaviors in a Simple Model to Support Innovation Adoption, Planning, and Evaluation.- Deriving Population Assessment through Opinion Polls, Text Analytics, and Agent-Based Modeling. mFingerprint: Privacy-Preserving User Modeling with Multimodal Mobile Device Footprints.- Poster Presentations.- Using Trust Model for Detecting Malicious Activities in Twitter.- Predicting Guild Membership in Massively Multiplayer Online Games.- Emoticon and Text Production in First and Second Languages in Informal Text Communication.- The Needs of Metaphor.- Behavior in the Time of Cholera: Evidence from the 2008-2009 Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe.- Mutual Information Technique in Assessing Crosstalk through a Random-Pairing Bootstrap Method.- New Methods of Mapping: The Application of Social Network Analysis to the Study of the Illegal Trade in Antiquities.- A New Paradigm for the Study of Corruption in Different Cultures.- A Study of Mobile Information Exploration with Multi-touch Interactions.- Dyadic Attribution: A Theoretical Model for Interpreting Online Words and Actions.- Modeling Impact of Social Stratification on the Basis of Time Allocation Heuristics in Society.- The Social Aspect of Voting for Useful Reviews.- Simulating International Energy Security.- Team PsychoSocial Assessment via Discourse Analysis: Power and Comfort/Routine.- Social TV and the Social Soundtrack: Significance of Second Screen Interaction during Television Viewing.- Social Network Structures of Primary Health Care Teams Associated with Health Outcomes in Alcohol Drinkers with Diabetes.- Emerging Dynamics in Crowdfunding Campaigns.- Incorporating Social Theories in Computational Behavioral Models.- Contexts of Diffusion: Adoption of Research Synthesis in Social Work and Women’s Studies.- Temporal Dynamics of Scale-Free Networks.- Big Data-Driven Marketing: How Machine Learning Outperforms Marketers’ Gut-Feeling.- “Frogs in a pot”: An Agent-Based Model of Well-Being versus Prosperity.- Frabjous: A Declarative Domain-Specific Language for Agent-Based Modelling.- Social Maintenance and Psychological Support Using Virtual Worlds.- Civil Unrest Prediction: A Tumblr-Based Exploration.- Studying the Evolution of Online Collective Action: Saudi Arabian Women’s ‘Oct26Driving’ Twitter Campaign.- A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Programs on Web Forum and Facebook.