2018 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
July 10-13, 2018, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Time Tutorial Sessions
Registration begins at 8am
Morning Tutorials
8:30 - 11:30

Invitation to Agent-Based Modeling Tutorial
Georgiy Bobashev

Conceptualizing Diffusion and Collaboration with Social Network Analysis
Nicole Fernandez, MS

Analyzing Multimedia-based Disinformation Campaigns Conducted on Multiple Social Media Platforms
Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Samer Al-khateeb, Rick Galeano, Katrin Galeano, and Nitin Agarwal

Afternoon Tutorials
12:00 - 3:00

Researching Human Behaviour using Smartphones and Wearables: A Hands-On Introduction
Mohammad Hashemian & Nathaniel Osgood

Geo-spatial and Temporal Analytics and Visualization for Networks
L. Richard Carley

Late Afternoon Tutorials
3:30 - 6:30

A Tutorial on Bot-Like Behavior on Twitter
David A. Broniatowski, Lulwah AlKulaib, SiHua Qi

Game Theoretic Approaches
Sun Ki Chai

Social Media Network Analytics Using ORA
Jeff Reminga

MAIN CONFERENCE AGENDA

Long Talks - 25 minutes with 5 minutes for questions

Short Talks - 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - Tentative Conference Day 1

Time Sessions
Registration begins at 8:00
08:45-09:00
Welcome
Keynote
9:00-10:30
5-minutes Intro
50-minutes Talk
30-minutes Questions
Dr. Frank E. Ritter
Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University

Some Futures for Cognitive Modeling and Architectures

10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:40 Long Paper Track - Agent-Based Models I


Georgiy Bobashev, Sam Goree and Jennifer Frank. "Pain Town, an Agent-Based Model of Opioid Use Trajectories in a Small Community"


Zahrieh Yousefi, Dietmar Heinke, Ian Apperly and Peer-Olaf Siebers. "An Agent-Based Model for False Belief Tasks: A Systematic Approach for Belief Representation"


Mark Orr, Christian Lebiere, Andrea Stocco, Peter Pirolli, Bianica Pires and William Kennedy. "Multi-Scale Resolution of Cognitive Architectures: A Paradigm for Simulating Minds and Society"
1 minute challenge teasers
12:40-14:00 Lunch
Triple Track Session
14:00-15:30

Long Paper Track - Cyber Behavior I Short Paper Track - Group Dynamics and Sentiment


Peter Chew. "Searching for Unknown Unknowns: Unsupervised Bot Detection to Defeat an Adaptive Adversary" Rithvik Yarlagadda, Diane Felmlee, Dinesh Vermaand Scott Gartner. "Implicit Terrorist Networks: A Two-Mode Social Network Analysis of Terrorism in India"


David Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley. "Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts" Nima Asadi, Aunshul Rege and Zoran Obradovic. "Assessment of Group Dynamics During Cyber Crime Through Temporal Network Topology"


Kai Shu, Amy Sliva, Justin Sampson and Huan Liu. "Understanding Cyber Attack Behaviors with Sentiment Information on Social Media" Tuja Khaund, Samer Al-Khateeb, Serpil Tokdemir and Nitin Agarwal. "Analyzing Social Bots and their Coordination during Natural Disasters"


Kaiyun Dai, Menglan Ma and Jianbo Gao. "Sentiment dynamics of The Chronicles of Narnia and their ranking"


Binxuan Huang, Yanglan Ou and Kathleen M. Carley. "Aspect Level Sentiment Classification with Attention-over-Attention Neural Networks"
Challenge Video Taping
14:00-15:30
Closed for Videotaping
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Triple Track Session
16:00-17:30

Short Paper Track - Agent-Based Models II Short Paper Track - Social Change


Jordan Richard Schoenherr and Kim Nguyen. "Multi-Agent Accumulator-Based Decision-Making Model of Incivility (MADI)" Thomas Magelinski and Kathleen M. Carley. "Legislative Voting Dynamics in Ukraine"


Thomas Briggs. "Formal Organizations, Informal Networks, and Work Flow: An Agent-Based Model" Soham De, Dana Nau, Xinyue Pan and Michele Gelfand. "Tipping Points for Norm Change in Human Cultures"


Samaneh Saadat, Chathika Gunaratne, Nisha Baral, Gita Sukthankar and Ivan Garibay. "Initializing Agent-based Models with Clustering Archetypes" Mahboubeh Ahmadalinezhad and Masoud Makrehchi. "Detecting Agreement and Disagreement in Political Debates"


Geoffrey Dobson and Kathleen M. Carley. "A Computational Model of Cyber Situational Awareness" Santiago Nunez-Corrales and Les Gasser. "Scalable social simulation: evaluation of current frameworks and a new approach"


Jose Padilla, Erika Frydenlund, Hege Wallevik and Hanne Haaland. "Model Co-Creation from a Modeler’s Perspective: Lessons Learned from the Collaboration between Ethnographers and Modelers" Kathleen M. Carley, Guido Cervone, Nitin Agarwal and Huan Liu. "Social Cyber-Security"
Challenge Video Taping
16:00-17:30
Closed for Videotaping
Break
17:30-18:00
Setup up for reception Photo of graduate student consoritum members
Photo of challenge participants
18:00-20:00
Welcome Reception, Late Breaking Posters, Challenge Posters and Voting, Demos and Grad Student Consortium Posters
1 minute introductions to graduate consortium students

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - Tentative Conference Day 2

Time Sessions
Registration begins at 8:00
8:45-9:00
Welcome and announcement of Challenge winners
Computational Social Science for Health and Medicine Panel
9:00-10:30
Dr. Patricia Mabry
Dr. Nathan Osgood
Dr. Ayaz Hyder
Dr. Yuru Lin

10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary - Government Funding Panel
12:30-14:00 Lunch & Business Meeting
Dual Track Session
14:00-15:30

Long Paper Track - Health Analytics I Short Paper Track - Prediction I


Vishnupriya Sridharan, Trevor Cohen, Nathan Cobb and Sahiti Myneni. "The Portrayal of Quit Emotions: Content-sensitive Analysis of Peer Interactions in an Online Community for Smoking Cessation" Gian Maria Campedelli, Iain Cruickshank and Kathleen M. Carley. "Complex Networks for Terrorist Target Prediction"


Sahiti Myneni, Deevakar Rogith and Amy Franklin. "Digilego: A Standardized Analytics-driven Consumer-oriented Connected Health Framework" Hamdi Kavak, Daniele Vernon-Bido and Jose Padilla. "Fine-Scale Prediction of People’s Home Location using Social Media Footprints"


Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Farshad Salimi Naneh Karan and Subhadeep Chakraborty. A study of how opinion sharing affects emergency evacuation" Mahboubeh Ahmadalinezhad and Masoud Makrehchi. "Sign Prediction in Signed Social Networks Using Inverse Squared Metric"


Sneha Nagpaul and Huzefa Rangwala. "From Language to Location Using Multiple Instance Neural Networks"


Ewan Wright, Qiang Hao, Khaled Rasheed and Yan Liu. "Feature Selection and Classification of Post-Graduation Income of College Students in the United States"
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Dual Track Session
16:00-17:30

Long Paper Track - Narratives in Conflict Mixed Paper Track - Health Analytics II


Georgiy Bobashev, Marc Sageman, Amanda Lewis-Evans, John Wittenborn and Robert Chew. "Turning Narrative Descriptions of Individual Behavior into Network Visualization and Analysis: Example of Terrorist Group Dynamics" Robert Chew, Annice Kim, Vivian Chen, Paul Ruddle and Antonio Morgan-Lopez. "Assessing Target Audiences of Digital Public Health Campaigns: A Computational Approach"


Arunabha Sen, Victoria Goliber, Chenyang Zhou and Kaustav Basu. "Terrorist Network Monitoring with Identifying Code" Hameeduddin Irfan Khaja, Marie Abate, Wanhong Zheng, Ahmed Abbasi and Donald Adjeroh. "Evaluating Semantic Similarity for Adverse Drug Event Narratives"


Jennifer Golbeck. "Predicting Alcoholism Recovery from Twitter" TBA - Opiod Challenge winner (short paper)
18:00-20:00 NO HOST RECPETION - you pay your own way - at local pub
CIRCA, 2221 I St NW, Washington, DC 20037

Friday, July 13, 2018 - Tentative Conference Day 3

Time Sessions
Registration begins at 8:00
08:45-09:00
Welcome
Computational Social Science and the Social Cyber World
09:00-10:30
Dr. Rebecca Goolsby - Social Cyber-Diplomacy
Dr. Nitin Agarwal - Social Cyber-Forensics
Dr. Kathleen M. Carley - Social Cyber-Security
Dr. Rob Thomson - Social Cyber-Education

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Dual Track Session
11:00-12:30

Long Paper Track - General Topics I Graduate Student Consortium


Ghazaleh Beigi and Huan Liu. "Similar but Different: Exploiting Users' Congruity for Recommendation Systems" Yao Zhou
Lu Cheng
Hamidreza Alvari
Arun Reddy Nelakurthi
Michael Smith
Pedram Hosseini
Ghazaleh Beigi


Paola Rizzo, Chaima Jemmali, Alice Leung, Karen Haigh and Magy Seif El-Nasr. "Detecting Betrayers in On-line Environments Using Active Indicators"


Nasrin Akhter, Liang Zhao, Enrique Arias, Huzefa Rangwala and Naren Ramakrishnan. "Forecasting Gang Homicides with Multi-level Multi-task Learning"
12:30-14:00
General Lunch & Mentor/Mentee Lunch
Triple Track Session
14:00-15:30

Long Paper Track - Social Media Behavior I Short Paper Track - Social Media Behavior II


Sultan Alzahrani, Chinmay Gore, Amin Salahi and Hasan Davulcu. "Finding Organizational Accounts Based on Structural and Behavioral Factors on Twitter" TBA - Winner of the Disinformation challenge


Sumeet Kumar and Kathleen M. Carley. "People2Vec: Learning Latent Representations of Users using Their Social-Media Activities" Matthew Babcock, David Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley. "Beaten Up on Twitter?: Exploring Fake News and Satirical Responses during Marvel’s Black Panther Movie Event"


Bahman Pedrood and Hemant Purohit. "Mining Help Intent on Twitter during Disasters via Transfer Learning with Sparse Coding" Lydia Manikonda, Ghazaleh Beigi, Subbarao Kambhampati and Huan Liu. "Twitter for Sparking a Movement, Reddit for Sharing the Moment: #metoo through the Lens of Social Media"
Sihua Qi, Lulwah Alkulaib and David A Broniatowski. "Detecting and Characterizing Bot-Like Behavior on Twitter"
Fabian Rüsenberg, Andrew Hampton, Valerie Shalin and Markus Feufel. "Stop-words are not “nothing”: German modal particles and public engagement in social media"
Sultan Alzahrani, Nyunsu Kim, Mert Ozer, Scott W. Ruston, Jason Schlachter and Steve R. Corman. "Framing Shifts of the Ukraine Conflict in pro-Russian News Media"
14:00-15:30

Graduate Student Consortium
Yao Zhou
Lu Cheng
Hamidreza Alvari
Arun Reddy Nelakurthi
Michael Smith
Pedram Hosseini
Ghazaleh Beigi
15:30
Coffee Break