Advances in Social Computing: Third International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2010, Bethesda, MD, USA, March 30-31, 2010. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Beyond Degree Distributions: Local to Global Structure of Social Contact Graphs....Pages 1-1
Endogenous Market-Clearing Prices and Reference Point Adaptation....Pages 2-2
Modeling Effect of Leaders in Ethno-Religious Conflicts....Pages 3-12
Calibrating Subjective Probabilities Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models....Pages 13-22
State-Dependent Risk Preferences in Evolutionary Games....Pages 23-31
Social Learning and Cumulative Innovations in a Networked Group....Pages 32-41
Understanding Segregation Processes....Pages 42-43
Social Factors in Creating an Integrated Capability for Health System Modeling and Simulation....Pages 44-51
A System Dynamics Approach to Modeling the Sensitivity of Inappropriate Emergency Department Utilization....Pages 52-61
Using Social Network Analysis for Spam Detection....Pages 62-69
Literature Search through Mixed-Membership Community Discovery....Pages 70-78
Predictability and Prediction for an Experimental Cultural Market....Pages 79-86
Macroeconomic Analysis of Universal Coverage in the U.S.....Pages 87-96
Projecting Sexual and Injecting HIV Risks into Future Outcomes with Agent-Based Modeling....Pages 97-97
Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Continuous Responses in a Finite Interval....Pages 98-107
Information Overload and Viral Marketing: Countermeasures and Strategies....Pages 108-117
Using Model Replication to Improve the Reliability of Agent-Based Models....Pages 118-127
Multiscale Comparison of Three-Dimensional Trajectories Based on the Curvature Maxima and Its Application to Medicine....Pages 128-137
A Knowledge Collaboration Network Model across Disciplines....Pages 138-148
Behavioral Analyses of Information Diffusion Models by Observed Data of Social Network....Pages 149-158
Developing Social Networks for Artificial Societies from Survey Data....Pages 159-168
Understanding and Enabling Online Social Networks to Support Healthy Behaviors....Pages 169-169
A Dynamical Systems Model for Understanding Behavioral Interventions for Weight Loss....Pages 170-179
COLBERT: A Scoring Based Graphical Model for Expert Identification....Pages 180-188
An Agent-Based Model for Studying Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention....Pages 189-198
Gryphon: A Hybrid Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Platform for Infectious Diseases....Pages 199-207
A Risk Factor Analysis of West Nile Virus: Extraction of Relationships from a Neural-Network Model....Pages 208-217
Coevolution of Epidemics, Social Networks, and Individual Behavior: A Case Study....Pages 218-227
User Generated Content Consumption and Social Networking in Knowledge-Sharing OSNs....Pages 228-237
Where Are the Academic Jobs? Interactive Exploration of Job Advertisements in Geospatial and Topical Space....Pages 238-247
Assessing Group Interaction with Social Language Network Analysis....Pages 248-255
Analyzing and Tracking Weblog Communities Using Discriminative Collection Representatives....Pages 256-264
Assortativity Patterns in Multi-dimensional Inter-organizational Networks: A Case Study of the Humanitarian Relief Sector....Pages 265-272
Deconstructing Interaction Dynamics in Knowledge Sharing Communities....Pages 273-281
Workings of Collective Intelligence within Open Source Communities....Pages 282-289
Manipulation as a Security Mechanism in Sensor Networks....Pages 290-297
Modeling the Impact of Motivation, Personality, and Emotion on Social Behavior....Pages 298-305
Expressing Effects-Based Outcomes from Patterns of Emergent Population Behaviors....Pages 306-313
PGT: A Statistical Approach to Prediction and Mechanism Design....Pages 314-322
Developing Cognitive Models for Social Simulation from Survey Data....Pages 323-329
Dynamic Creation of Social Networks for Syndromic Surveillance Using Information Fusion....Pages 330-337
Calibrating Bayesian Network Representations of Social-Behavioral Models....Pages 338-345
Social Network Data and Practices: The Case of Friendfeed....Pages 346-353
Predictability in an ’Unpredictable’ Artificial Cultural Market....Pages 354-359
Improving an Agent-Based Model by Using Interdisciplinary Approaches for Analyzing Structural Change in Agriculture....Pages 360-366
Exploring the Human Fabric through an Analyst’s Eyes....Pages 367-374
Mitigating Issues Related to the Modeling of Insurgent Recruitment....Pages 375-381
An Application of Epidemiological Modeling to Information Diffusion....Pages 382-389
A Social Network Analysis Approach to Detecting Suspicious Online Financial Activities....Pages 390-397
Opponent Classification in Poker....Pages 398-405
Convergence of Influential Bloggers for Topic Discovery in the Blogosphere....Pages 406-412
Sentiment Propagation in Social Networks: A Case Study in LiveJournal....Pages 413-420
Iranians and Their Pride: Modalities of Political Sovereignty....Pages 421-421
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