Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction: 8th International Conference, SBP 2015, Washington, DC, USA, March 31-April 3, 2015. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Network-Based Model for Predicting Hashtag Breakouts in Twitter....Pages 3-12
Temporal Causality of Social Support in an Online Community for Cancer Survivors....Pages 13-23
Are You Satisfied with Life?: Predicting Satisfaction with Life from Facebook....Pages 24-33
Social Computing for Impact Assessment of Social Change Projects....Pages 34-43
Social Network Extraction and High Value Individual (HVI) Identification within Fused Intelligence Data....Pages 44-54
Structural Properties of Ego Networks....Pages 55-64
Conflict and Communication in Massively-Multiplayer Online Games....Pages 65-74
The Impact of Human Behavioral Changes in 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak....Pages 75-84
Social Complexity in the Virtual World....Pages 85-92
A Model of Policy Formation Through Simulated Annealing: The Impact of Preference Alignment on Productivity and Satisfaction....Pages 93-100
VIP: Incorporating Human Cognitive Biases in a Probabilistic Model of Retweeting....Pages 101-110
The Influence of Collaboration on Research Quality....Pages 111-120
Detecting Rumors Through Modeling Information Propagation Networks in a Social Media Environment....Pages 121-130
Subjective versus Objective Questions: Perception of Question Subjectivity in Social Q&A....Pages 131-140
Analysis of Music Tagging and Listening Patterns: Do Tags Really Function as Retrieval Aids?....Pages 141-152
A Novel Mental State Model of Social Perception of Brand Crisis from an Entertainment Perspective....Pages 153-162
Network-Based Group Account Classification....Pages 163-172
Persistence in Voting Behavior: Stronghold Dynamics in Elections....Pages 173-181
Efficient Learning of User Conformity on Review Score....Pages 182-192
Are Tweets Biased by Audience? An Analysis from the View of Topic Diversity....Pages 193-202
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Advantages of Cooperative Behavior During Tsunami Evacuation....Pages 203-212
Learning Automated Agents from Historical Game Data via Tensor Decomposition....Pages 213-221
A Comparative Study of Symptom Clustering On Clinical and Social Media Data....Pages 222-231
Women’s Right to Drive: Spillover of Brokers, Mobilization, and Cyberactivism....Pages 232-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
A Mathematical Epidemiology Approach for Identifying Critical Issues in Social Media....Pages 245-250
Analyzing Deviant Cyber Flash Mobs of ISIL on Twitter....Pages 251-257
Social Behavior Bias and Knowledge Management Optimization....Pages 258-263
Passive Crowd Sourcing for Technology Prediction....Pages 264-269
How to Predict Social Trends by Mining User Sentiments....Pages 270-275
‘Linguistics-Lite’ Topic Extraction from Multilingual Social Media Data....Pages 276-282
Mining Business Competitiveness from User Visitation Data....Pages 283-289
Automatic Tonal Music Composition Using Functional Harmony....Pages 290-295
Gaming the Social System: A Game Theoretic Examination of Social Influence in Risk Behaviour....Pages 296-301
MECH: A Model for Predictive Analysis of Human Choices in Asymmetric Conflicts....Pages 302-307
Using Topic Models to Measure Social Psychological Characteristics in Online Social Media....Pages 308-313
Expanding Consumer Health Vocabularies by Learning Consumer Health Expressions from Online Health Social Media....Pages 314-320
Identifying Correlates of Homicide Rates in Michoacán, Mexico....Pages 321-326
A Preliminary Model of Media Influence on Attitude Diffusion....Pages 327-332
A Study of Daily Sample Composition on Amazon Mechanical Turk....Pages 333-338
The Controlled, Large Online Social Experimentation Platform (CLOSE)....Pages 339-344
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Early Prediction of Movie Success — What, Who, and When....Pages 345-349
Risk Management in Asymmetric Conflict: Using Predictive Route Reconnaissance to Assess and Mitigate Threats....Pages 350-355
Styles in the Fashion Social Network: An Analysis on Lookbook.nu....Pages 356-361
Beyond Mere Following: Mention Network, a Better Alternative for Researching User Interaction and Behavior....Pages 362-368
Agent-Based Models of Copycat Suicide....Pages 369-374
Analyzing Second Screen Based Social Soundtrack of TV Viewers from Diverse Cultural Settings....Pages 375-380
Error-Correction and Aggregation in Crowd-Sourcing of Geopolitical Incident Information....Pages 381-387
Socio-Spatial Pareto Frontiers of Twitter Networks....Pages 388-393
SOR: A Protocol for Requests Dissemination in Online Social Networks....Pages 394-399
Resilience of Criminal Networks....Pages 400-404
Modeling Group Dynamics for Personalized Group-Event Recommendation....Pages 405-411
Determinants of User Ratings in Online Business Rating Services....Pages 412-420
Social Support and Stress in Autism Blogging Community on Twitter....Pages 421-427
Dynamics of a Repulsive Voter Model....Pages 428-433
Ride Sharing: A Network Perspective....Pages 434-439
Complex Interactions in Social and Event Network Analysis....Pages 440-445
Quantifying Tactical Risk: A Framework for Statistical Classification Using MECH....Pages 446-451
An Analysis of MOOC Discussion Forum Interactions from the Most Active Users....Pages 452-457
Inferring User Interests on Tumblr....Pages 458-463
Residential Mobility and Lung Cancer Risk: Data-Driven Exploration Using Internet Sources....Pages 464-469
Back Matter....Pages 471-472