Program
| Program | AS OF: March 19, 2011 | |
| 28-Mar-10 | Tutorials | |
| 08:00 - 16:00 | Registration | |
| ALL DAY | TUTORIALS | Anna Nagurney (Tutorial Chair) |
| 08:30 - 12:30 | Tutorial 1: Toolkits for Computational Social Science: Using Honest Signals to Predict and Shape Human Responses | Dr. Alex "Sandy" Pentland |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH (On your Own) | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Tutorial 3: Social Network Analysis of Personal and Group Networks | Dr. Allen Tien |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Understanding Social Media: Tools, Applications, and Processes | Dr. Nitin Agarwal |
| 29-Mar-10 | Technical Program, Day 1 | |
| 07:30 - 16:00 | Registration | |
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Welcome & Admin | Dana Nau |
| 08:15 - 08:30 | Welcome | Steve
Halperin, Dean, College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences University of Maryland |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | KEYNOTE: Using models to inform policy: Insights from modeling the complexities of global polio eradication | Kimberly Thompson, Kid Risk, Inc. |
| SESSION 1 | George Tadda, AFRL/RIEF | |
| 09:15 - 09:35 | [11] Towards Culturally-Informed Option Awareness for Influence Operations with S-CAT | Kenneth Murray, SRI International |
| 09:35 - 09:55 | [25] Optimization-Based Influencing of Village Social Networks in a Counterinsurgency | Maj Benjamin Hung, US Army |
| 09:55 - 10:15 | [78] Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter: An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic | Kyle Prier, Brigham Young University |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | BREAK | |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | [47] Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups that Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons | Ronald L. Breiger, University of Arizona |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | [53] Cognitive Aspects of Power in a Two-level Game | Ion Juvina, Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | [41] Predicting Demonstrations' Violence Level Using Qualitative Reasoning | Natalie Fridman, Bar Ilan University |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | [3] Abstraction of an Affective-Cognitive Decision Making Model based on Simulated Behavior and Perception Chains | Alexei Sharpanskykh, University Amsterdam |
| 11:55 - 13:00 | LUNCH (provided) | |
| SESSION 2 | George Tadda, AFRL/RIEF | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | KEYNOTE:
Medicare Auctions: A Case Study of Market Design in Washington, DC |
Peter Cramton, University of Maryland |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | [21] A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Social Marginalization and Obesity | Achla Marathe, Virginia Tech |
| 14:05 - 14:25 | [43] Open Source Software development: Communities and firms impact on public good | Sebastian Spaeth, ETH Zurich |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | [84] Location Privacy Protection on Social Networks | Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | BREAK and Informal Networking | |
| Cross-fertilization Roundtables | Fahmida Chowdhury, Bethany Deeds (Workshop Chairs) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Round Table Discussions - Session 1 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Round Table Discussions - Session 2 | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Round Table Discussions - Session 3 | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Round Table Discussions - Session 4 | |
| 30-Mar-10 | Technical Program, Day 2 | |
| 07:30 - 12:00 | Registration | |
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Admin | Dana Nau |
| 08:15 - 09:00 | KEYNOTE: Agent-based Models of Complex Dynamical Systems of Market Exchange | Herb Gintis, The Santa Fe Institute and Central European University |
| SESSION 3 | Michael Hinman, AFRL/RIEF | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | [23] Pattern Analysis in Social Networks with Dynamic Connections | Yu Wu, Standford University |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | [7] Detecting Changes in Opinion Value Distribution for Voter Model | Kazumi Saito, University of Shizuoka |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | [70] Dynamic Simulation of Community Crime and Crime-Reporting Behavior | Michael Yonas, University of Pittsburgh |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | [8] Using Web-Based Knowledge Extraction Techniques to Support Cultural Modeling | Paul Smart, University of Southampton |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:30 - 12:15 | PANEL - Computational and Statistical Models: A Comparison for Policy Modeling of Childhood Obesity | Patricia Mabry, NIH, Panel (Chair/Moderator); Ross Hammond, Brookings Institute; Edward Hak-Sing Ip, Wake Forrest University Health Sciences; Terry T-K Huang, University of Nebraska Mediacl Center |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | LUNCH (provided) | |
| SESSION 4 | Michael Hinman, AFRL/RIEF | |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | [27] Model Docking Using Knowledge-Level Analysis | Ethan Trewhitt,Georgia Tech Research Institute |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | [77] How Corruption Blunts Counternarcotic Policies in Afghanistan: A Multiagent Investigation | Armando Geller, George Mason University |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | [65] Discovering Collaborative Cyber Attack Patterns Using Social Network Analysis | Haitao Du, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Invited: Dynamic Models of Neighborhood Change | Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Invited: TBD | Jeffrey Morenoff, University of Michigan |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | BREAK | |
| 15:10 - 16:30 | 3 Min Overviews of Poster Board Presentations | Lei Yu (Poster Board Chair) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | BREAK | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Poster Board Session/Reception | |
| [12] Formation of Common Investment Networks by Project Establishment between Agents | Jesús-Emeterio Navarro-Barrientos,Arizona State University | |
| [54] Constructing Social Networks from Unstructured Group Dialog in Virtual Worlds | Syed Fahad Allam Shah, University of Central Florida | |
| [63] Effects of Opposition on the Diffusion of Complex Contagions in Social Networks: An Empirical Study | Chris Kuhlman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute | |
| [64] Promoting Coordination for Disaster Relief - From Crowdsourcing to Coordination | Huiji Gao, Arizona State University | |
| [85] Trust Maximization in Social Networks | Justin Zhan, North Carolina A&T State University | |
| [9] Towards a Computational Analysis of Status and Leadership Styles on FDA Panels | David Broniatowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| [20] Tracking Communities in Dynamic Social Networks | Kevin Xu, University of Michigan | |
| [39] Bayesian Networks for Social Modeling | Paul Whitney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| [51] Speeding Up Network Layout and Centrality Measures for Social Computing Goals | Puneet Sharma, University of Maryland | |
| [52] An Agent-Based Simulation for Investigating the Impact of Stereotypes on Task-Oriented Group Formation | Mahsa Maghami, University of Central Florida | |
| [69] An Approach for Dynamic Optimization of Prevention Program Implementation in Stochastic Environments | Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University | |
| [75] Ranking Information in Networks | Tina Eliassi-Rad, Rutgers University | |
| [6] Information Provenance in Social Media | Geoffrey Barbier, Arizona State University | |
| [13] A Cultural Belief Network Simulator | Benjamin Simpkins, Applied Research Associates, Inc. | |
| [16] Following the Social Media Aspect Evolution of Online Discussion | Xuning Tang, Drexel University | |
| [32] Representing trust in cognitive social simulations | Shawn Pollock, Naval Postgraduate School | |
| [38] Temporal Visualization of Social Network Dynamics: Prototypes for Nation of Neighbors | Jae-wook Ahn, University of Maryland | |
| [40] Toward Predicting Popularity of Social Marketing Messages | Bei Yu, Syracuse University | |
| [42] simulating the Effect of Peacekeeping Operations 2010-2025 | Havard Hegre, University of Oslo | |
| [46] Rebellion on Sugarscape: Case Studies for Greed and Grievance Theory of Civil Conflicts using Agent-Based Models | Rong Pan, Arizona State University | |
| [48] A Culture-Sensitive Agent in Kirman’s Ant Model | Ting-Yu Chen, National Chengchi University | |
| [56] Modeling Link Formation Behaviors in Dynamic Social Networks | Viet An Nguyen, University of Maryland | |
| [57] Naming on a Directed Graph | Giorgio Gosti, University of California | |
| [74] Synthesis and Refinement of Detailed Subnetworks in a Social Contact Network for Epidemic Simulations | Huadong Xia, Virginia Tech | |
| [86] Technosocial Predictive Analytics for Illicit Nuclear Trafficking | Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| 31-Mar-10 | Technical Program, Day 3 | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Registration | |
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Admin | Dana Nau |
| 08:15 - 09:00 | KEYNOTE: Agents that negotiate proficiently with people | Sarit Kraus |
| SESSION 5 | Jay Yang, RIT | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | [61] Cognitive Modeling for Agent-based Simulation of Child Maltreatment | Xiaolin Hu, Georgia State University |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | [5] Crowdsourcing Quality Control of Online Information: A Quality-based Cascade Model | Wai-Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | [15] Consumer Search, Rationing Rules, and the Consequence for Competition | Christopher Ruebeck, Lafayette College |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | BREAK | |
| Federal Funding Panels | Fahmida Chowdhury, Bethany Deeds (Workshop Chairs) | |
| 10:15 - 12:00 | Panel Discussion | CONFIRMED
MEMBERS 1. Abdul Shaikh, NCI 2. Stephen Marcus, NIH (NIGMS) 3. Stephanie Bruce, AFOSR/RSL 4. David Croson, NSF 5. Bethany Deeds, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) 6. Greg Bloss, NIAAA 7. Ivy Eastabrooke, ONR 8. Grace C.Y. Peng, NIH (NBIB) |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Concluding Remarks |