2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
June 28 - July 1, 2016, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA

Accepted Full Papers

(A link to view the online copy of the Proceedings published by Springer may be found here.)

  • Shuyuan Mary Ho, Cheryl Booth, Xiuwen Liu and Aravind Hariharan. Saint or Sinner? Language-action Cues for Modeling Deception Using Support Vector Machines
  • Kenneth Frank and Ran Xu. The Social Dynamics of Group Polarization during Diffusion
  • Kangwon Seo, Rong Pan and Aleksey Panasyuk. Detecting communities by sentiment analysis of controversial topics
  • Teague Henry, Sabina Gesell and Edward Ip. Social Position Predicting Physical Activity Level in Youth: An Application of Hidden Markov Modeling on Network Statistics
  • Bianica Pires and Andrew Crooks. The Geography of Conflict Diamonds: The Case of Sierra Leone
  • Alireza Hajibagheri, Gita Sukthankar and Kiran Lakkaraju. Leveraging Network Dynamics for Improved Link Prediction
  • Yi-Chieh Lee, Chi-Hsien Yen and Wai-Tat Fu. An Effective Donation Distribution System for Crowdfunding Websites
  • Partha Mukherjee and Bernard Jansen. Formality Identification in Social Media Dialogue
  • Brandon Oselio and Alfred Hero. Dynamic Directed Influence Networks: A Study of Campaigns on Twitter
  • Christopher R. Williams and Armin R. Mikler. Incorporating disgust as disease-avoidant behavior in an agent-based epidemic model
  • Chris Thron and Rachel McCoy. Modeling and Simulation of Sectarian Tensions in Split Communities
  • Abdullah Almaatouq, Laura Radaelli, Alex Pentland and Erez Shmueli. The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change
  • Andrey Finkelshtein, Rami Puzis, Asaf Shabtai and Bronislav Sidik. Spot the Hotspot: Wi-Fi Hotspot Classification from Internet Traffic
  • Brian Goode, Juan Reyes, Daniela Pardo-Yepez, Gabriel Canale, Richard Tong, David Mares, Michael Roan and Naren Ramakrishnan. Event Detection from Blogs using Large Scale Analysis of Metaphorical Usage
  • John Nelson, William Kennedy and Frank Krueger. Exploratory Models of Trust with Empirically-Inferred Decision Trees
  • Ciara Sibley. Be Alert and Stay the Course: An Agent-based Model Exploring Maritime Piracy Countermeasures
  • Mengdi Wang and Yu-Ru Lin. Link Prediction via Multi-Hashing Framework
  • Di Jin, Mengdi Wang and Yu-Ru Lin. TELELINK: Link Prediction in Social Network Based on Multiplex Cohesive Structures
  • Bin Zhou. I2Rec: An Iterative and Interactive Recommendation Framework for Event-Based Social Networks
  • Michael Collins, Ion Juvina and Kevin Gluck. Trust Dynamics Predict Transfer of Learning Effects
  • Michael C. Smith and David A. Broniatowski. Modeling Influenza by Modulating Flu Awareness
  • Kimberly Glasgow, Jessica Vitak and Clay Fink. "With your help... we begin to heal'': Social Media Expressions of Gratitude in the Aftermath of Disaster
  • Jeremy Cole, Ying Xu and David Reitter. How People Talk About Armed Conflicts: An Analysis of Reddit Data
  • Hua Wang, Mary Northridge, Carol Kunzel, Qiuyi Zhang, Susan Kum, Jessica Gilbert, Zhu Jin and Sara Metcalf. Modeling Social Capital as Dynamic Networks to Promote Health Equity
  • Brian Wheatman, Alejandro Noriega Campero and Alex 'Sandy' Pentland. Electricity Demand and Population Dynamics Prediction from Mobile Phone Metadata
  • Xidao Wen and Yu-Ru Lin. Sensing Distress Following A Terrorist Event
  • Nuo Yong, Shunjiang Ni and Shifei Shen. A Preliminary Study of Mobility Patterns in Urban Subway
  • Zining Yang. An Agent-Based Dynamic Model of Politics, Fertility and Economic Development
  • Peng Fang, Jianbo Gao, Fangli Fan and Luhai Yang. Identifying political “hot” spots through massive media data analysis
  • William Frankenstein, Kenneth Joseph and Kathleen M. Carley. Contextual Sentiment Analysis
  • Dennis Buede, Paul Sticha and Elise Axelrad. Conversational Non-Player Characters for Virtual Training
  • Kyle Ballard. Holy Mackerel! : An Exploratory Agent-Based Model of Illicit Fishing and Forced Labor
  • Lu Zhang, Yongkai Wu and Xintao Wu. On Discrimination Discovery Using Causal Networks
  • John Noel Victorino, Maria Regina Justina Estuar and Alfredo Mahar Francisco Lagmay. Validating the Voice of the Crowd during Disasters
  • Shikhar Kumar and Cleotilde Gonzalez. Heterogeneity of Memory Decay and Collective Learning in the El Farol Bar Problem
  • Ali Jalal-Kamali and David Pynadath. Toward a Bayesian Network Model of Events in International Relations