Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 13th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2020, Washington, DC, USA, October 18–21, 2020, Proceedings

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Beyond Words: Comparing Structure, Emoji Use, and Consistency Across Social Media Posts  (Melanie Swartz, Andrew Crooks, Arie Croitoru)....Pages 1-11
 Bot Impacts on Public Sentiment and Community Structures: Comparative Analysis of Three Elections in the Asia-Pacific  (Joshua Uyheng, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 12-22
 Understanding Colonial Legacy and Environmental Issues in Senegal Through Language Use  (Kamwoo Lee, Jeanine Braithwaite, Michel Atchikpa)....Pages 23-34
 Deploying System Dynamics Models for Disease Surveillance in the Philippines  (Joshua Uyheng, Christian E. Pulmano, Ma. Regina Justina Estuar)....Pages 35-44
 MDR Cluster-Debias: A Nonlinear Word Embedding Debiasing Pipeline  (Yuhao Du, Kenneth Joseph)....Pages 45-54
 Modeling Interventions for Insider Threat  (Luke J. Osterritter, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 55-64
 Validating Social Media Monitoring: Statistical Pitfalls and Opportunities from Public Opinion  (Michael C. Smith, Thomas A. Mazzuchi, David A. Broniatowski)....Pages 65-74
 Lying About Lying on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2019 Canadian Elections  (Catherine King, Daniele Bellutta, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 75-85
 Breadth Verses Depth: The Impact of Tree Structure on Cultural Influence  (Rhodri L. Morris, Liam D. Turner, Roger M. Whitaker, Cheryl Giammanco)....Pages 86-95
 Optimizing Attention-Aware Opinion Seeding Strategies  (Charles E. Martin, Dana Warmsley, Samuel D. Johnson)....Pages 96-106
 Polarizing Tweets on Climate Change  (Aman Tyagi, Matthew Babcock, Kathleen M. Carley, Douglas C. Sicker)....Pages 107-117
 Characterizing Sociolinguistic Variation in the Competing Vaccination Communities  (Shahan Ali Memon, Aman Tyagi, David R. Mortensen, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 118-129
 On Countering Disinformation with Caution: Effective Inoculation Strategies and Others that Backfire into Community Hyper-Polarization  (Amirarsalan Rajabi, Chathika Gunaratne, Alexander V. Mantzaris, Ivan Garibay)....Pages 130-139
 Homicidal Event Forecasting and Interpretable Analysis Using Hierarchical Attention Model  (Angeela Acharya, Jitin Krishnan, Desmond Arias, Huzefa Rangwala)....Pages 140-150
 Development of a Hybrid Machine Learning Agent Based Model for Optimization and Interpretability  (Paul Cummings, Andrew Crooks)....Pages 151-160
 Canadian Federal Election and Hashtags that Do Not Belong  (Thomas Magelinski, Mihovil Bartulovic, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 161-170
 Group Formation Theory at Multiple Scales  (Casey Doyle, Asmeret Naugle, Michael Bernard, Kiran Lakkaraju, Robert Kittinger, Matthew Sweitzer et al.)....Pages 171-181
 Towards Agent Validation of a Military Cyber Team Performance Simulation  (Geoffrey B. Dobson, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 182-191
 Developing Graph Theoretic Techniques to Identify Amplification and Coordination Activities of Influential Sets of Users  (Mustafa Alassad, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Nitin Agarwal)....Pages 192-201
 Detecting Online Hate Speech: Approaches Using Weak Supervision and Network Embedding Models  (Michael Ridenhour, Arunkumar Bagavathi, Elaheh Raisi, Siddharth Krishnan)....Pages 202-212
 Critical Spatial Clusters for Vaccine Preventable Diseases  (Jose Cadena, Achla Marathe, Anil Vullikanti)....Pages 213-223
 Multi-cause Discrimination Analysis Using Potential Outcomes  (Wen Huang, Yongkai Wu, Xintao Wu)....Pages 224-234
 Twitter Is the Megaphone of Cross-platform Messaging on the White Helmets  (Sameera Horawalavithana, Kin Wai Ng, Adriana Iamnitchi)....Pages 235-244
 Learning Behavioral Representations from Wearable Sensors  (Nazgol Tavabi, Homa Hosseinmardi, Jennifer L. Villatte, Andrés Abeliuk, Shrikanth Narayanan, Emilio Ferrara et al.)....Pages 245-254
 The Rise and Fall of Humanitarian Citizen Initiatives: A Simulation-Based Approach  (Erika Frydenlund, Jose Padilla, Hanne Haaland, Hege Wallevik)....Pages 255-265
 Developing an Epidemiological Model to Study Spread of Toxicity on YouTube  (Adewale Obadimu, Esther Mead, Maryam Maleki, Nitin Agarwal)....Pages 266-276
 Predicting Student Flight Performance with Multimodal Features  (Zerong Xi, Olivia Newton, Greg McGowin, Gita Sukthankar, Steve Fiore, Kevin Oden)....Pages 277-287
 A Game-Transformation-Based Framework to Understand Initial Conditions and Outcomes in the Context of Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations (CIOs)  (Girish Sreevatsan Nandakumar, Jose Padilla)....Pages 288-297
 The Human Resource Management Parameter Experimentation Tool  (Carmen Iasiello, Andrew Crooks, Sarah Wittman)....Pages 298-307
 Utilizing Python for Agent-Based Modeling: The Mesa Framework  (Jackie Kazil, David Masad, Andrew Crooks)....Pages 308-317
 Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets  (Nazim Choudhury, Kin Wai Ng, Adriana Iamnitchi)....Pages 318-328
 Artifacts of Crisis: Textual Analysis of Euromaidan  (Thomas Magelinski, Zachary K. Stine, Thomas Marcoux, Nitin Agarwal, Kathleen M. Carley)....Pages 329-339
 Modeling Decisions from Experience Among Frequent and Infrequent Switchers via Strategy-Based and Instance-Based Models  (Neha Sharma, Varun Dutt)....Pages 340-349
Back Matter ....Pages 351-352