| Time | Sessions |
|---|---|
| Registration begins at 8am | |
| Plenary Session | Methodology: 3 Talks |
| 9:00-9:10 |
Welcome & Introduction |
| 9:10-9:30 |
Spot the Hotspot: Wi-Fi Hotspot Classification from Internet Traffic |
| 9:30-9:50 |
I2Rec: An Interative and Interactive Recommendation Framework for Event-Based Social Networks |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Modeling Influenza by Modulating Flu Awareness |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Break |
| Keynote 10:30-Noon 5-minutes Intro 50-minutes Talk 30-minutes Questions |
Dr. Alex Levis Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, VA "Multi-Formalism Modeling of Complex Strategic Problems" |
| Noon - 1:30pm | Lunch - Sponsor funding panel |
| Plenary Session |
Information, systems, and network sciences: 5 Talks |
| 1:30-1:50pm |
The Implications for Network Structure of Dynamic Feedback between Influence and Selection |
| 1:50-2:10pm |
Leveraging Network Dynamics for Improved Link Prediction |
| 2:10-2:30pm |
Dynamic Directed Influence Networks: A Study of Campaigns on Twitter |
| 2:30-2:50pm |
Link Prediction via Multi-Hashing Framework |
| 2:50-3:10pm |
TELELINK: Link Prediction in Social Network Based on Multiplex Cohesive Structures |
| 3:10-3:20pm |
Presentation of Best Paper Awards |
| 3:20-3:50pm |
Break |
| Plenary Session |
Military and intelligence applications: 5 Talks |
| 3:50-4:10pm |
Saint or Sinner? Language-action Cues for Modeling Deception Using Support Vector Machines |
| 4:10-4:30pm |
The Geography of Conflict Diamonds: The Case of Sierra Leone |
| 4:30-4:50pm |
From Tweets to Intelligence: Understanding the Islamic Jihad Support Community on Twitter |
| 4:50-5:10pm |
Be Alert and Stay the Course: An Agent-based Model Exploring Maritime Piracy Countermeasures |
| 5:10-5:30pm |
How People Talk About Armed Conflicts: An Analysis of Reddit Data |
| 6 - 8pm |
No Host Social at The Front Page², 1333 New Hampshire Ave. |
| Time | Sessions |
|---|---|
| Registration begins at 8am | |
| Plenary Session |
Health sciences: 3 Talks |
| 9:00-9:10 |
Welcome & Introduction |
| 9:10-9:30 |
Social Position Predicting Physical Activity Level in Youth: An Application of Hidden Markov Modeling on Network Statistics |
| 9:30-9:50 |
Incorporating disgust as disease-avoidant behavior in an agent-based epidemic model |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Modeling Social Capital as Dynamic Networks to Promote Health Equity |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Break |
| Keynote 10:30am-noon 5-minutes Intro 50-minutes Talk 30-minutes Questions |
Tina Eliassi-Rad Associate Professor of Computer Science Northeastern University Boston, MA "So Many Choices, So Few Guidelines: Sifting through Functions on Networks" |
| 12 - 1:30pm | Lunch (Networking roundtables / tentative) |
| Plenary Session | Methodology: 5 Talks |
| 1:30-1:50 |
Formality Identification in Social Media Dialogue |
| 1:50-2:10 |
Identifying political "hot" spots through massive media data analysis |
| 2:10-2:30 |
Contextual Sentiment Analysis |
| 2:30-2:50 |
Validating the Voice of the Crowd during Disasters |
| 2:50-3:10 |
Toward a Bayesian Network Model of Events in International Relations |
| 3:10-3:30 |
Break |
| Plenary Session | Behavioral and social sciences: 4 Talks |
| 3:50-4:10 |
Improving Donation Distribution for Crowdfunding: An Agent-based Model |
| 4:10-4:30 |
An Agent-based Framework for Active Multi-level Modeling of Organizations |
| 4:30-4:50 |
Modeling and Simulation of Sectarian Tensions in Split Communities |
| 4:50-5:10 |
The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change |
| 5:10-5:50 |
Introduction to data challenge with 1-minute elevator speech on each submission |
| 6:00 - 8:00pm | Poster Session and Reception and vote for challenge problem |
| Time | Sessions |
|---|---|
| 8:50-9:00 |
Welcome & Introduction |
| Keynote 9-10:30am 5-minutes Intro 50-minutes Talk 30-minutes Questions |
Pamela I. Blechinger Director, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center (TRAC) Fort Leavenworth, Kansas "Models and Simulations in support of Army Acquisition" |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Plenary Session |
Military and intelligence applications: 3 Talks |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Sensing Distress Following a Terrorist Event |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Conversational Non-player Characters for Virtual Training |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Holy Mackerel!: An Exploratory Agent-based Model of Illicit Fishing and Forced Labor |
| 12:00-1:30 | General Lunch (on your own) = Separate Societal Business Meeting |
| Plenary Session | Behavioral and social sciences: 5 Talks |
| 1:30-1:50 |
Exploratory Models of Trust with Empirically-inferred Decision Trees |
| 1:50-2:10 |
Predicting Privacy Attitudes Using Phone Meta-data |
| 2:10-2:30 |
A Preliminary Study of Mobility Patterns in Urban Subway |
| 2:30-2:50 |
An Agent-based Dynamic Model of Politics, Fertility and Economic Development |
| 2:50-3:10 |
On Discrimination Discovery Using Causal Networks |
| 3:10-3:50 |
Break |
| Plenary Session |
Information, systems, and network sciences: 5 Talks |
| 3:50-4:10 |
Trust Dynamics Predict Transfer of Learning Effects |
| 4:10-4:30 |
Electricity Demand and Population Dynamics Prediction from Mobile Phone Metadata |
| 4:30-4:50 |
Detecting Communities by Sentiment Analysis of Controversial Topics |
| 4:50-5:10 |
Event Detection from Blogs using Large Scale Analysis of Metaphorical Usage |
| 5:10-5:30 |
"With your help... we begin to heal": Social Media Expressions of Gratitude in the Aftermath of Disaster |