16th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
September 20-22, 2023, Hybrid.
Gates Hillman Complex,4902 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
2022 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award -Ariel M. Greenberg
Best paper Award -Keeley Erhardt and Sandy Pentland,“Detection of Coordination Between State-Linked Actors” and Charity Jacobs and Kathleen M. Carley, “#WhoDefinesDemocracy: Analysis on a 2021 Chinese Messaging Campaign”
Best Student Paper Award - Aylin McGough, Hamdi Kavak and Ron Mahabir , “Revisiting Linus’ Law in OpenStreetMap: An Agent-Based Approach” and David Mortimore and Mustafa Canan “Unleashing Computational Organization Theory with Quantum Probability Theory”
Best Reviewer Awards -Patrick Rice
Exceptional Service Award -Samer Al-Khateeb
2021 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. Patricia L. Mabry
Outstanding Service Award - Chris Dancy
Best paper Award -Jacob Dineen, A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque & Matthew Bielskas,“Reinforcement Learning For Data Poisoning on Graph Neural Networks”
Best Student Paper Award - Brandon Shapiro & Andrew Crooks, “Kinetic Action and Radicalization: A Case Study of Pakistan”
Best COVID Track Paper Award - Sameera Horawalavithana , Ravindu De Silva, Mohamed Nabeel, Primal Wijesekera , Charitha Elvitigala & Adriana lamnitchi, “Malicious and Low Credibility URLs on Twitter during the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Development”
Best Human-Autonomy Teaming Paper Award - Lux Miranda & Ozlem Ozmen “Multi-Agent Naïve Utility Calculus: Intent Recognition in the Stag-Hunt Game”
Best Reviewer Awards -2 winners Nasrin Akhter & Kiran Kumar Bandeli
Challenge Winner -Mustafa Alassad, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, & Nitin Agarwal, “A Systematic Agent-based Model to Minimize Spreading of Malicious Information in Dynamic Social Networks”
Challenge Runner-up - Lynnette Ng, Iain Cruickshank & Kathleen M. Carley, “Coordinating Narratives and the Capitol Riots on Parler”
2020 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. Barry G. Silverman
Service Award - Donald Adjeroh
Best paper Award - Catherine King, Daniele Bellutta & Kathleen M. Carley, About Lying on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2019 Canadian Elections
Best Student Paper Award - Kamwoo Lee, Jeanine Braithwaite & Michel Atchikpa, Understanding Colonial Legacy and Environmental Issues in Senegal through Language Use
Best Reviewer Award - Kiran Kumar Bandeli
Challenge Winner - Archita Pathak, Rohini K. Srihari, and Nihit Natu, Disinformation - Analysis and Identification
Challenge Runner-up (Tie) - Thomas Magelinski, Mihovil Bartulovic and Kathleen M Carley, Reopen America? Analysis of Twitter Data During the Anti-Lockdown Protests &
Joshua Uyheng, Lynette Ng, and Kathleen M. Carley, Bot activity in the 2020 Singaporean elections: A social cybersecurity analysis
2019 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. John Salerno
Service Award - Tuja Khaund and Katrin Galeano
Best paper Award - Lucas Overbey, Bryan Ek, Kevin Pinzhoffer and Bryan Williams, Using Common Enemy Graphs to Identify Communities of Coordinated Social Media Activity
Best Student Paper Award - Nicolas Harder and Matthew Brashears, A Hybrid Cellular Model for Predicting Organizational Recruitment in a k-Dimensional Space
Best Working Paper Award - Iain Cruickshank, Kathleen Carley, Matthew Elder, Anthony Johnson and Timothy Davison, Detecting Malware Communities Using Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping
Challenge Winner - Alina Vereshchaka, Wen Dong and Seth Cosimini, Novel Approaches to Analyzing and Distinguishing Fake and Real News to Mitigate the Problem of Disinformation
2018 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award - Dr. Frank Ritter
Exceptional Service Award - Dr. Robert Thomson
Best paper Award - 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
Best Student Paper Award - David Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, Using Random String Classification to Filter and Annotate Automated Accounts
Disinformation Challenge Winner - Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran and Huan Liu, FakeNewsTracker: Towards Fake News Collection, Detection, and Visualization
Disinformation Challenge Runner Up I – Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Samer Al-Khateeb, Serpil Tokdemir, and Nitin Agarwal, Examining Strategic Integration of Social Media Platforms in Tracking Disinformation Campaign Coordination
Disinformation Challenge Runner Up II – Matthew Babcock, Ramon Alfonso Villa Cox and Sumeet Kumar, Which fake fits? How the diffusion of disinformation varies by campaign type and community in the Black Panther Twitter discussion
Opioid Challenge Winner - Savannah Bates, Vasiliy Leonenko, James Rineer and Georgiy Bobashev, Using Synthetic Populations to Understand Geospatial Patterns in Opioid Related Overdose and Predicted Opioid Misuse
Opioid Challenge Runner Up – Usha Lokala, Francois Lamy, Raminta Daniulatyate, Amit Sheth, Ramzi Nahhas, Jason Roden, Robert Carlson and Shweta Yadav, Global trends, local harms: Availability of Fentanyl-Type Drugs on the Dark Web and Accidental Overdoses in Ohio
2017 Award winners
Life Time Achievement Award - Huan Liu
Exceptional Service Award I - Yu Ru Lin, for dedication, serving as a program chair and inauguration of the graduate student consortium
Exceptional Service Award II - Nathan Osgood, for dedication, serving as a program chair and support for the challenge video taping
Best paper Award - Juan Fernandez-Gracia, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Michael Barnett, Victor M. Eguiluz and Nicholas Christakis, Spread of pathogens in the patient transfer network of US hospitals
Best Student Paper Award - Fan Yang and Wen Dong, Integrating Simulation and Signal Processing with Stochastic Social Kinetic Model
Challenge Award Winner - Armineh Nourbakhsh, Xiaomo Liu, Quanzhi Li, Sameena Shah, Mapping the Echo-chamber: Detecting and Characterizing Partisan Networks on Twitter
2016 Award winners
Exceptional Service Award - Kevin Xu
Best paper Award - Kimberly Glasgow, Jessika Vitak, Yla Tausczik, and Clay Fink, With your help... we begin to heal
: Social Media Expressions of Gratitude in the Aftermath of Disaster
Best Student Paper Award - Teague Henry, Sabina B. Gesell, and Edward Ip, Social Position Predicting Physical Activity Level in Youth: An Application of Hidden Markov Modeling on Network Statistics
Data Challenge Winner - Lucas A. Overbey, Scott C. Batson, Jamie Lyle, Christopher Williams, Robert Regal, Lakeisha Williams, Correlating Twitter Sentiment and Event Data to Monitor Social and Political Unrest
Data Challenge Runner Up – Quanzhi Li, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Rui Fang, Xiaomo Liu, Sameena Shah, Sentiment Analysis of Political Figures across News and Social Media
