02-Apr-12    
08:00 - 16:00  Registration  
ALL DAY TUTORIALS Anna Nagurney (Tutorial Chair)
08:30 - 12:30 Tutorial 1: Dynamic Networks Dr. Kathleen Carley
08:30 - 12:30 Tutorial 2: Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence Dr. Haym Hirsh
     
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH  
     
14:00 - 17:30 Tutorial 3: Public Health Concepts: An Introduction for Modelers Drs. Patricia Maybry and Nate Osgood 
     
3-Apr-12    
07:30 - 16:00  Registration  
     
08:15 - 08:30 Welcome & Admin VS Subrahmanian
08:30 - 09:15  KEYNOTE: Modeling Plausible Scenarios that Matter Dr. Bobby Milstein 
     
SESSION 1:  Chair Jonathon Kopecky
Jonathon.kopecky@jhuapl.edu
09:15 - 09:40  Consensus under Constraints: Modeling the Great English Vowel Shift Kiran Lakkaraju (klakkar@sandia.gov)
09:40 -10:05  A Study of Informational Support Exchanges in MedHelp Alcoholism Community Katherine Chuang (katychuang@drexel.edu)
10:05 - 10:30 Real-World Behavior Analysis through a Social Media Lens Mohammad Ali Abbasi (ali.abbasi@asu.edu)
     
10:30 - 10:45  BREAK  
     
10:45 - 11:00 Challenge Problem Description Dr. Nitin Agarwal
11:00 - 11:20 Discovering and Navigating Memes in Social Media Matthew Lease, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
11:20 - 11:40 Conflict Thermometer: Predicting Social Conflicts by Analyzing Language Gap in Polarized Social Media Masoud Makrehchi, Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters, Toronto, Canada
11:40 - 12:00 Challenge Problem Description -2013 Dr. Nitin Agarwal
     
12:00 - 13:00  LUNCH  
     
SESSION 2 Chair Wen Dong wendong@gmail.com
13:00 - 13:25 Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Signed Graphs Under a Balance Constraint Kalin Agrawal (kagrawal@uci.edu)
13:25 - 13:50 Using Organizational Similarity to Identify Statistical Interactions for Improving Situational Awareness of CBRN Activities Dave Melamed (melamed@email.arizona.edu)
13:50 - 14:15 Opinion Dynamics in Gendered Social Networks: An Examination of Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan Thomas Moore (tmoore@sandia.gov)
14:15 - 14:40 Socio-Cultural Evolution of Opinion Dynamics in Networked Societies Subhadeep Chakraborty (schakrab@utk.edu)
     
14:40 - 14:55 BREAK  
     
  Cross-fertilization Roundtables Fahmida Chowdhury, Bethany Deeds (Workshop Chairs)
14:55 - 15:25 Round Table Discussions - Session 1  
15:25 - 15:55 Round Table Discussions - Session 2  
15:55 - 16:25 Round Table Discussions - Session 3  
16:25 - 17:00 Round Table Discussions - Session 4  
4-Apr-12    
07:30 - 16:30 Registration  
     
08:00 - 08:15  Admin
- Announcement of Best Paper Awards
VS Subrahmanian
Dr Joesph Lyons, AFOSR/RSL
08:15 - 09:00  KEYNOTE:  Social Culture Behavior Modeling Research and Engineering Dr. Patrick Mason, OSD
     
SESSION 3:  Chair Dr Patricia Mabry mabryp@od.nih.gov
09:00 - 09:25 A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Intervention Programs on Social Media Mi Zhang (mi.zhang@drexel.edu)
09:25 - 09:50 Trends Prediction Using Social Diffusion Models Yaniv Altshuler (yanival@media.mit.edu)
     
09:50 - 10:05 BREAK  
     
10:05 - 10:30 Towards Democratic Group Detection in Complex Networks Michele Coscia (coscia@di.unipi.it)
10:30 - 10:55  Addiction dynamics may explain the slow decline of smoking prevalence  Gaurav Tuli (gtuli@vbi.vt.edu)
10:55 - 11:20 How Many Makes a Crowd? On the Evolution of Learning as a Factor of Community Coverage Yaniv Altshuler (yanival@media.mit.edu)
11:20 - 11:45 Effect of In/Out-Degree Correlation on Influence Degree of Two Contrasting Information Diffusion Models Hiroshi Motoda (motoda@ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp)
     
11:45 - 13:00  LUNCH  
     
SESSION 4 Chair Bart Paulhamus
bart.paulhamus@jhuapl.edu
13:00 - 13:25 The Imperative for Social Competency Prediction Robert Hubal (rhubal@rti.org)
13:25 - 13:50 Beyond validation: Alternative uses and associated assessments of goodness for computational social models Jessica Turnley (jgturnley@aol.com)
13:50 - 14:15 Predicting Recent Links in FOAF Networks Hung-Hsuan Chen (hhchen@psu.edu)
14:15 - 14:40 Mapping the Twitterverse in the Developing World: An Analysis of Social Media Use in Nigeria Clayton Fink (clayton.fink@jhuapl.edu)
14:40 - 15:05 Modeling Infection with Multi-agent Dynamics Wen Dong (wdong@media.mit.edu)
     
15:05 - 15:20 BREAK  
     
15:20 - 16:15 4 Min Overviews of Poster Board Presentations (12x4=48min) Lei Yu (Poster Board Chair)
     
16:15 - 17:00  BREAK  
     
17:00 - 19:00 Poster Board Session/Reception  
  Using Participatory Computational Social Science When Standard Approaches to Context Analysis in Development Cooperation Fail Macjej Latek (mlatek@gmu.edu)
  Applying System Dynamics to Military Operations Corey Lofdahl (clofdahl@cra.com)
  Lessons Learned in Using Social Media for Disaster Relief -  ASU Crisis Response Game Mohammad Ali Abbasi (ali.abbasi@asu.edu)
  Intergroup Prisoner’s Dilemma with Intragroup Power Dynamics and Individual Power Drive Ion Juvina (ijuvina@cmu.edu)
  Modeling South African Service Protests using the National Operational Environment Model Christopher Thron (thron@ct.tamus.edu)
  Modeling and estimating individual and population obesity dynamics Nasim Sabounchi (sabounchi@vt.edu)
  Creating interaction environments: Defining a twosided market model of the development and dominance of platforms Walt Beyeler (webeyel@sandia.gov)
  The Impact of Attitude Resolve on Population Wide Attitude Change Craig Vineyard (cmviney@sandia.gov)
  The Impact of Network Structure on the Perturbation dynamics of a Multi-agent Economic Model  Marshall Kuypers (mkuyper@sandia.gov)
  Robust Recommendations using Regularized Link Analysis of Browsing Behavior Graphs Koji Eguchi (eguchi@port.kobe-u.ac.jp)
  Whodunit? Collective Trust in Virtual Interactions Shuyuan Mary Ho (smho@drexel.edu)
  Towards Building and Analyzing a Social Network of Acknowledgments in Scientific and Academic Documents Madian Khabsa (madian@psu.edu)
05-Apr-12    
08:00 - 12:00 Registration  
     
08:00 - 08:15  Admin VS Subrahmanian
08:15 - 09:00  KEYNOTE:  Agent-Based Computational Modeling in Public Health: From Playground to Planet Dr Joshua Epstein, JHU
     
SESSION 5:  Chair Wai-Tat Fu
wfu@illinois.edu
09:00 - 09:25 Dynamic Multichain Graphical Model for Psychological and Behavioral Profiles in Childhood Obesity Edward Ip (eip@wfubmc.edu)
09:25 - 09:50 A Computer-in-the-Loop Approach for Detecting Roles in the Classroom Juan F. Mancilla-Caceres (mancill1@illinois.edu)
09:50 - 10:15 Partitioning Signed Bipartite Graphs for Classification of Individuals and Organizations Arunabha Sen (asen@asu.edu)
     
10:15 -10:30 BREAK  
     
10:30 - 10:55  The Mythology of Game Theory Nicholas Weller (nweller@usc.edu)
10:55 - 11:20 Crowdsourced Cyber Defense: Lessons from a Large-Scale, Game-Based Approach to Threat Identification on a Live Network Barton Paulhamus (Bart.Paulhamus@jhuapl.edu)
11:20 - 11:45 Love all, Trust a Few: Link Prediction for Trust and Psycho-Social Factors in MMOs Muhammad Ahmad (mahmad@cs.umn.edu)
     
11:45 - 13:15 LUNCH (Panel Discussions: Rebecca Goolsby (ONR); Wen-ying Sylvia Chou (NIH-NCI); Fahmida Chowdhury (NSF); Olga Brazhnik (NIH-NCATS) and  John Lavery (ARO)) Fahmida Chowdhury, Bethany Deeds (Panel Chairs) 
     
SESSION 6:  Chair Arunabha Sen arunabha.sen@asu.edu
13:15 - 13:40  Information and Attitude Diffusion in Networks Wai-Tat Fu (wfu@illinois.edu)
13:40 - 14:05 Using Mixed-mode Networks to Disentangle Multiple Sources of Social Influence Kayo Fujimoto (Kayo.Fujimoto@uth.tmc.edu)
14:05 - 14:30 Implicit Group Membership Detection in Online Text: Analysis and Applications Jeffrey Ellen (jeffrey.ellen@navy.mil)
14:30 - 14:55 Automatic Crime Prediction using Events Extracted from Twitter Posts Xiaofeng Wang (xw4u@virginia.edu)
     
14:55 - 15:10 BREAK  
     
15:10 - 15:35 Dynamic, Covert Network Simulation Patrick O'Neil (paddyoneil89@gmail.com)
15:35 - 16:00 Computing the value of a Crowd Manas Hardas (mhardas@spigit.com)
16:00 - 16:25 Mnemonic convergence: from empirical data to large-scale dynamics Alin Coman (aic10@pitt.edu)
16:25 - 16:50 Sizing strategies in scarce environments Michael Mitchell (micmitc@sandia.gov)
16:50 - 17:00 Conference Wrap-Up