SBP-BRiMS 2016

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

Online Proceedings

A Conference Agenda may be downloaded here.

A list of accepted papers may be viewed here.

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

A list of Tutorials with descriptions and downloads may be viewed here.

Awards presented in 2016 may be viewed here.

Photos from the 2016 conference may be viewed here.

• Understanding Illicit Drug Use Behaviors by Mining Social Media
  
  • Yiheng Zhou, University of Rochester
  • Numair Sani, University of Rochester
  • Chia-Kuei Lee, University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester
• Towards Understanding How News Coverage Affect Public Perception During Epidemic Outbreaks
  
  • Zhishen Pan, University of Rochester
  • Li-Kai Chi, University of Rochester
  • Timothy Dye, University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester
• Predicting Network Evolution through Temporal Twitter Snapshots for Paris Attacks of 2015
  
  • Max Berest, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Zachary Lukens, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Nicolas L. Martinez, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Ben McCaleb, Naval Postgraduate School
• Measuring the Structural Uniqueness of Influential Team Members in Healthcare Settings
  
  • Tianyi Cheng, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare & Georgetown University Commmunication, Culture and Technology Program
  • Allan Fong, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
  • Nicole Fernandez, Georgetown University Commmunication, Culture and Technology Program
  • Ella Franklin, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
  • Lindsey Clark, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
  • Sarah Henrickson Parker, National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare & Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute
• Modeling Network Community Evolution in YouTube Comment Posting
  
  • Richard Allain, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Daniel Hall, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Mark Raffetto, Naval Postgraduate School
• Constructing scientific narratives around the Dust Bowl: a network-based study of American scientist communities between the 1920s and 1950s
  
  • Aitong Li, University of Tokyo
  • Pierre Maret, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France
  • Fabrice Muhlenbach, Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France
• How Much Data Do You Need? Twitter Decahose Data Analysis
  
  • Quanzhi Li, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Sameena Shah, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Merine Thomas, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Kajsa Anderson, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Xiaomo Liu, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Armineh Nourbakhsh, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Rui Fang, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
• Conceptual Model from a Financial Contagion Case to Build an Agent-Based Model
  
  • Catheriny Soares Andrade Moraes, Universidade Católica de Brasília,
  • Pryscilla Morais de Oliveira, Universidade Católica de Brasília,
• Event-Based Social Network Discovery (ESONED) Using WiFi Access Points
  
  • Le Fang, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Tong Guan, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Wen Dong, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Designing a Crowdsourcing Tool to Measure Perceived Causal Relationships Between Narrative Events
  
  • Dian Hu, The George Washington University
  • David A. Broniatowski, The George Washington University
• Heterogeneity of Memory Decay and Collective Learning in the El Farol Bar Problem
  
  • Shikhar Kumar, The University of Arizona
  • Cleotilde Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University

• Automated Fire Support Planning for Combat Simulations
  
  • Byron R. Harder, Naval Postgraduate School, MOVES Institute
  • Chris Darken, Naval Postgraduate School, MOVES Institute
• Using Meeting Artifacts to Learn About Unobserved Group Dynamics
  
  • Gabriel Murray, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
• Answering questions with line and bar graphs
  
  • Liang Dong, North Carolina State University
  • Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University
• Breakout: An Open Measurement and Intervention Tool for Distributed Peer Learning Groups
  
  • Dan Calacci, MIT Media Lab
  • Oren Lederman, MIT Media Lab
  • David Shrier, MIT Connection Science
  • Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT Media Lab
• Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics
  
  • Oren Lederman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Dan Calacci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Angus MacMullen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Daniel C. Fehder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Fiona E. Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Web-Based Interactive Multi-Level Graph Visualization
  
  • Brian O’Leary, University of Toledo
  • Kevin S. Xu, University of Toledo

• Fragile State Index and Instability Models: Forecasting with the Integrated Crisis Early Warning System - Presentation - Poster
  
  • David Noever, PeopleTec, Inc. Huntsville, AL
  • David Kinnaird, University of Pennsylvania
• Influence Networks in International Relations - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Michael D. Ward, Duke University
  • Peter D. Hoff, University of Washington
  • Shahryar Minhas, Duke University
• Correlating Twitter Sentiment and Event Data to Monitor Social and Political Unrest - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Lucas Overbey, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
  • Scott Batson, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
  • Jamie Lyle, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
  • Christopher Williams, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
  • Robert Regal, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
  • Lakeisha Williams, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic
• Integrating Interactive and Computational Approaches for News Understanding - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Liang Wu, Arizona State University
  • Fred Morstatter, Arizona State University
  • Daniel Baird, Arizona State University
  • Justin Sampson, Arizona State University
  • Kai Shu, Arizona State University
  • Huan Liu, Arizona State University
• Interactive Calendar of the Conflict-Cooperation Relationship
  
  • Shi Cheng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Dai Haixing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Wang Yijia, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Ethnic Conflicts and Human Rights Violations in Africa and the Middle East - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Anirban Chakraborti, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Kiran Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • Aditeya Pandey, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Kaushal Paneri, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Siddharth Verma, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Gunjan Sehgal, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Bindu Gupta, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Geetika Sharma, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Lovekesh Vig, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Puneet Agarwal, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
  • Gautam Shroff, TCS Research, New Delhi, India
• Response to SBP-BRiMS Data Challenge: Agent-Based Approach to Human Migration Movement - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Larry Lin, Singapore Management University
  • Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University
• Constellations on Social Representation of Candidates on the Landscape of Cooperation and Conflict during the 2016 National Election Campaign Period in the Philippines - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Maria Regina Justina E. Estuar, Ph.D., Ateneo de Manila University
  • John Noel C. Victorino, MSCS, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Kennedy Espina,, Ateneo de Manila University
  • May Gizelle Galarce, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Rhene Muez, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Jann Alfred Quinto, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Joesalyn Relativo, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Rey Rodrigueza, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Reuel Joab Yap, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Marlene de Leon, Ateneo de Manila University
• Empirical Design of System of Systems Using Open Data - Presentation - Poster
  
  • James Arruda, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Rahul Basole, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Tom McDermott, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Molly Nadolski, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Melissa Rost, Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Lindsey Sheppard, Georgia Tech Research Institute
• Event Data and the Construction of Reality - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Brian Wingenroth, START, University of Maryland
  • Erin Miller, START, University of Maryland
  • Michael Jensen, START, University of Maryland
  • Omi Hodwitz, START, University of Maryland
  • Kieran Quinlan, START, University of Maryland
• Subgraph mining for conflicts and mediation forecasting
  
  • Yanjun Gao, Penn State University
  • Hui-Ju Hung, Penn State University
  • Tao-Yang Fu, Penn State University
  • Yu-San Lin, Penn State University
  • Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University
• Connecting World Events to Social Media Precursors
  
  • Bradley J. Best, Adaptive Cognitive Systems, LLC
  • William G. Kennedy, George Mason University
• Identifying the Perpetrator: Attribution of Cyber-attacks based on the Integrated Crisis Early Warning System and the VERIS Community Database - Presentation - Poster
  
  • David Noever, PeopleTec, Inc. Huntsville, AL
  • David Kinnaird, University of Pennsylvania
• More News does not Mean Effective Policy: Perception and Impact of US Cyber Policies - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Sumeet Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Kathleen M. Carley, Carnegie Mellon University
• Do negative events have higher impact on human behaviour?: A country level study
  
  • Khadija Ali Vakeel, Indian Institute of Management Indore
• Sentiment Analysis of Political Figures across News and Social Media - Presentation - Poster
  
  • Quanzhi Li, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Armineh Nourbakhsh, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Rui Fang, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Xiaomo Liu, Research and Development Thomson Reuters
  • Sameena Shah, Research and Development Thomson Reuters