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Analyzing covert social network foundation behind terrorism disaster

, 2007
This paper addresses a method to analyze the covert social network foundation hidden behind the terrorism disaster. It is to solve a node discovery problem, which means to discover a node, which functions relevantly in a social network, but escaped from ...
Maeno, Yoshiharu, Ohsawa, Yukio
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10101 Executive Summary -- Computational Foundations of Social Choice [PDF]

, 2010
This seminar addressed some of the key issues in computational social choice, a novel interdisciplinary field of study at the interface of social choice theory and computer science.
Brandt, Felix, Conitzer, Vincent, Hemaspaandra, Lane A., Laslier, Jean-Francois, Zwicker, William S.   +4 more
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Credimus

, 2019
We believe that economic design and computational complexity---while already important to each other---should become even more important to each other with each passing year. But for that to happen, experts in on the one hand such areas as social choice,
A Appel, A Shamir, C Lund, D Barrington, J Hartmanis, J Hartmanis, J Hartmanis, J Lutz, J Storer, J-Y Cai, L Fortnow, L Hemaspaandra, L Hemaspaandra, Michael Sipser, Moshe Y. Vardi, N Immerman, N Nisan, R Szelepcsényi, S Arora, S Kurtz, S Toda, W Gasarch   +21 more
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Computational social science with confidence

EPJ Data Science
There is an ongoing shift in computational social science towards validating our methodologies and improving the reliability of our findings. This is tremendously exciting in that we are moving beyond exploration, towards a fuller integration with theory
Carolina E. S. Mattsson
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Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics

, 2016
The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool comes with inherent ethical challenges. Informed consent can be difficult
Aiello Luca Maria, Hofmann Marcia, Keegan Brian, Nissenbaum Helen, Vaccaro K   +4 more
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Quantifying the digital traces of Hurricane Sandy on Flickr [PDF]

, 2013
Society’s increasing interactions with technology are creating extensive “digital traces” of our collective human behavior. These new data sources are fuelling the rapid development of the new field of computational social science.
Bishop, Steven R., Moat, Helen Susannah, Preis, Tobias, Stanley, H. Eugene, Treleaven, Philip   +4 more
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A virtual reality experiment to study pedestrian perception of future street scenarios

Scientific Reports
The current allocation of street space is based on expected vehicular peak-hour flows. Flexible and adaptive use of this space can respond to changing needs.
Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Carina I. Hausladen, Sachit Mahajan, Marc Matter, Michael Siebenmann, Michael A. B. van Eggermond, Dirk Helbing   +6 more
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Quantifying crowd size with mobile phone and Twitter data [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Being able to infer the number of people in a specific area is of extreme importance for the avoidance of crowd disasters and to facilitate emergency evacuations.
Federico Botta, Helen Susannah Moat, Tobias Preis   +2 more
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Attitudes towards Participation in a Passive Data Collection Experiment

Sensors, 2021
In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study conducted in Hungary using a factorial design-based online survey to explore the willingness to participate in a future research project based on active and passive data collection via ...
Bence Ságvári, Attila Gulyás, Júlia Koltai   +2 more
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Generating Politically-Relevant Event Data

, 2016
Automatically generated political event data is an important part of the social science data ecosystem. The approaches for generating this data, though, have remained largely the same for two decades.
Beieler, John
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