2021 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
July 06-09, 2021, Virtual

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• Are Top School Students More Critical of Their Professors? Mining Comments on RateMyProfessors.com
• Ziqi Tang, Yutong Wang and Jiebo Luo

• A Bibliometric Analysis of SBP-BRiMS
• Amit Upadhyay and Wen Dong

• Friends’ Influence Driven Users’ Value Change Prediction from Social Media Usage
• Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Ahmed Shahriar Sakib, Md. Adnanul Islam, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mumshad Ahamed Rifat

• Weak Ties to the Narrative Rescue: Starbucks Arrest Controversy Case Study
• Rick Galeano, Billy Spann, Katrin Galeano and Nitin Agarwal

• Understanding the Hoarding Behaviors duringthe COVID-19 Pandemic using Large ScaleSocial Media Data
• Xupin Zhang, Hanjia Lyu and Jieobo Luo

• Climate Action During COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond: A Twitter Text Mining Study
• Mohammad Parsa, Lukasz Golab and Srinivasan Keshav

• Climate Change Conspiracy Theories on Social Media
• Aman Tyagi and Kathleen Carley

• Towards Large-Scale Agent-Based Geospatial Simulation
• Umar Manzoor, Hamdi Kavak, Joon-Seok Kim, Andrew Crooks, Dieter Pfoser, Andreas Zufle and Carola Wenk

• Optimizing Response Time to Minimize Spreading of Conspiracy Theories in Dynamic Social Networks
• Mustafa Alassad, Muhammad Nihal Hussain and Nitin Agarwal

• Evolution of Focal Information Spreaders in Dynamic Social Networks
• Mustafa Alassad, Muhammad Nihal Hussain and Nitin Agarwal

• Comparing the Behavioral Effects of Different Interactions with Sources of Misinformation
• Daniele Bellutta and Kathleen Carley

• Mining Risk Behaviors from Social Media for Pandemic Crisis Preparedness and Response
• Yasas Senarath, Steve Peterson, Hemant Purohit, Amanda Hughes and Keri Stephens

• Tweets and Social Network Data for Twitter Bot Analysis
• Jennifer Golbeck, Niloofarsadat Alavi, Hannah K. Bako, Calvin Bao, Matthew Barzola, Corie Brown, Kristen M. Byers, Melissa Carraway, Keaunna Cleveland, Brandon Y. Feng, Shayna Foote, Petra Galuščáková, Auguste H. Gezalyan, Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran, Saeed Hadadan, Seyyedpooya Hekmatiathar, Jeffrey Henrikson, Karan D Kaur, Nikita Khatri, Nitzan Koren, Anna Lenhart, Ruiqi Li, Yannan Liu, Jennifer MacDonald, Gloria Nzeka, Neviya Prakash, Joanna Purich, Robin Reiss, Aayushi Roy, David Rudd, Anup Sathya, Nicole R Schneider, Hilary Szu Yin Shiue, Astha Singhal, John Sutton, Gabrielle Trilling, Amulya Velamakanni, Jacob Walter, Tory White, Gareth Thomas Williams, Zachary Wilton, Peratham Wiriyathammabhum, Mischa Wolfinger, Arthur Wu, Rachel Zehrung, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay and Sean McWillie

• Examine Educational Opportunity and Inequality Using Machine Learning Methods with U.S. National Data
• Yan Liu, Lok Heng Chau and Qiang Hao

• An NLP approach to quantify dynamic salience of predefined topics in a text corpus
• Alexander Bock, Anthony Palladino, Skaidra Smith-Heisters, Ian Boardman, Ethan Pellegrini, Elisa Bienenstock and Andrew Valenti

• Predicting Popularity of Polish Facebook Posts Using Author and Content Features
• Nataliya Stepanova, C. Anton Rytting, Ewa Golonka and Susannah B. F. Paletz

• Using Network Analysis on Twitter Data to Identify Threats on Indonesian Digital Activism
• Adya Danaditya

• Analyzing Incidents in Militarized Interstate Disputes using Motifs in Temporal Networks
• Hung Do and Kevin Xu

• Data Generation for Neural Disinformation Detection
• Tharindu Kumarage, Amrita Bhattacharjee, Kai Shu and Huan Liu

• Mechanisms and Attributes of Echo Chambers in Social Media
• Bohan Jiang, Mansooreh Karami, Lu Cheng, Tyler Black and Huan Liu

• Social-Cyber Maneuvers Analysis During the COVID-19 Vaccine Initial Rollout
• Janice Blane, Daniele Bellutta and Kathleen Carley

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