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This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of
Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2022, held
in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2022. The 14 full papers and 1
short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35
submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical
sections: simulation of behavioral processes; modeling of
sustainability; and data science and modeling.
This book addresses the challenges of social network and social
media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. The chapters
collected here tackle these issues by proposing new analysis
methods and by examining mining methods for the vast amount of
social content produced. Social Networks (SNs) have become an
integral part of our lives; they are used for leisure, business,
government, medical, educational purposes and have attracted
billions of users. The challenges that stem from this wide adoption
of SNs are vast. These include generating realistic social network
topologies, awareness of user activities, topic and trend
generation, estimation of user attributes from their social
content, and behavior detection. This text has applications to
widely used platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and appeals to
students, researchers, and professionals in the field.
This book addresses the challenges of social network and social
media analysis in terms of prediction and inference. The chapters
collected here tackle these issues by proposing new analysis
methods and by examining mining methods for the vast amount of
social content produced. Social Networks (SNs) have become an
integral part of our lives; they are used for leisure, business,
government, medical, educational purposes and have attracted
billions of users. The challenges that stem from this wide adoption
of SNs are vast. These include generating realistic social network
topologies, awareness of user activities, topic and trend
generation, estimation of user attributes from their social
content, and behavior detection. This text has applications to
widely used platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and appeals to
students, researchers, and professionals in the field.
This work addresses the gap in the current collective action
literature exposed by the new Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and
quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The
book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both
methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus,
collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of
the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online
collective actions. More specifically, the book is intended to
illuminate several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically
undeveloped and largely unexplored aspects of collective action in
the participatory media (e.g., social media). Through in-depth
exploration of relevant concepts, theories, methodologies,
applications, and case studies, the reader will gain an advanced
understanding of collective action with the advent of the new
generation of ICTs enabled by social media and the Internet. The
developed theories will be valuable and comprehensive references
for those interested in examining the role of ICTs not only in
collective action but also in decision and policy making,
understanding the dynamics of interaction, collaboration,
cooperation, communication, as well as information flow and
propagation, and social network research for years to come.
Further, the book also serves as an extensive repository of data
sets and tools that can be used by researchers leading to a deeper
and more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the crowd in
online collective actions.
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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction - 8th International Conference, SBP 2015, Washington, DC, USA, March 31-April 3, 2015. Proceedings (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Nitin Agarwal, Kevin Xu, Nathaniel Osgood
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R3,025
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2015, held in Washington, DC, USA, in
March/April 2015. The 24 full papers presented together with 36
poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 118
submissions. The goal of the conference was to advance our
understanding of human behavior through the development and
application of mathematical, computational, statistical,
simulation, predictive and other models that provide fundamental
insights into factors contributing to human socio-cultural
dynamics. The topical areas addressed by the papers are social and
behavioral sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer and
information science.
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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction - 7th International Conference, SBP 2014, Washington, DC, USA, April 1-4, 2014. Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
William G. Kennedy, Nitin Agarwal, Shanchieh Jay Yang
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R1,605
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling, and Prediction, SBP 2014, held in Washington, DC, USA, in
April 2014. The 51 full papers presented were carefully reviewed
and selected from 101 submissions. The SBP conference provides a
forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry,
and government agencies to exchange ideas on current challenges in
social computing, behavioral-cultural modeling and prediction, and
on state-of-the-art methods and best practices being adopted to
tackle these challenges. The topical areas addressed by the papers
are social and behavioral sciences, health sciences, military
science, and information science.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various concepts
and research issues about blogs or weblogs. It introduces
techniques and approaches, tools and applications, and evaluation
methodologies with examples and case studies. Blogs allow people to
express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and share their
experiences and ideas. Blogs also facilitate interactions among
individuals creating a network with unique characteristics. Through
the interactions individuals experience a sense of community. We
elaborate on approaches that extract communities and cluster blogs
based on information of the bloggers. Open standards and low
barrier to publication in Blogosphere have transformed information
consumers to producers, generating an overwhelming amount of
ever-increasing knowledge about the members, their environment and
symbiosis. We elaborate on approaches that sift through humongous
blog data sources to identify influential and trustworthy bloggers
leveraging content and network information. Spam blogs or "splogs"
are an increasing concern in Blogosphere and are discussed in
detail with the approaches leveraging supervised machine learning
algorithms and interaction patterns. We elaborate on data
collection procedures, provide resources for blog data
repositories, mention various visualization and analysis tools in
Blogosphere, and explain conventional and novel evaluation
methodologies, to help perform research in the Blogosphere. The
book is supported by additional material, including lecture slides
as well as the complete set of figures used in the book, and the
reader is encouraged to visit the book website for the latest
information. Table of Contents: Modeling Blogosphere / Blog
Clustering and Community Discovery / Influence and Trust / Spam
Filtering in Blogosphere / Data Collection and Evaluation
Surviving Neurosurgery: Vignettes of Resilience is a practical
guide to the inner workings of the lives of neurosurgeons,
healthcare partners, and patients. To this end, this text serves as
a first-hand documentary of the unique challenges faced as one
progresses through their career. It is a snapshot in time capturing
the experiences of both patients and providers. The text is divided
into seven parts that run the gamut of a neurosurgeon's career
symbolic of the seven years of neurosurgical training. These
narratives include, but are not limited to, residency challenges,
surgical nuances, research and funding, embracing humanity, patient
experiences, and overcoming hurdles along the journey. Chapters
share the wisdom and experiences of over 100 authors consisting of
patients, trainees, advanced practice providers, and attending
neurosurgeons.
This book describes the methodologies and tools used to conduct
social cyber forensic analysis. By applying these methodologies and
tools on various events observed in the case studies contained
within, their effectiveness is highlighted. They blend
computational social network analysis and cyber forensic concepts
and tools in order to identify and study information competitors.
Through cyber forensic analysis, metadata associated with
propaganda-riddled websites are extracted. This metadata assists in
extracting social network information such as friends and followers
along with communication network information such as networks
depicting flows of information among the actors such as tweets,
replies, retweets, mentions, and hyperlinks. Through computational
social network analysis, the authors identify influential actors
and powerful groups coordinating the disinformation campaign. A
blended social cyber forensic approach allows them to study
cross-media affiliations of the information competitors. For
instance, narratives are framed on blogs and YouTube videos, and
then Twitter and Reddit, for instance, will be used to disseminate
the message. Social cyber forensic methodologies enable researchers
to study the role of modern information and communication
technologies (ICTs) in the evolution of information campaign and
coordination. In addition to the concepts and methodologies
pertaining to social cyber forensics, this book also offers a
collection of resources for readers including several datasets that
were collected during case studies, up-to-date reference and
literature surveys in the domain, and a suite of tools that
students, researchers, and practitioners alike can utilize. Most
importantly, the book demands a dialogue between information
science researchers, public affairs officers, and policy makers to
prepare our society to deal with the lawless "wild west" of modern
social information systems triggering debates and studies on cyber
diplomacy.
The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new
concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance
and deepen our understanding of social networks in the new
generation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
enabled by Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, to help
policy-making. This interdisciplinary work provides a platform for
researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from sociology,
behavioral science, computer science, psychology, cultural studies,
information systems, operations research and communication to
share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts, ideas,
principles, and methodologies. Emerging Research Challenges and
Opportunities in Computational Social Network Analysis and Mining
will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and graduate
students from the various disciplines listed above. The text
facilitates the dissemination of investigations of the dynamics and
structure of web based social networks. The book can be used as a
reference text for advanced courses on Social Network Analysis,
Sociology, Communication, Organization Theory, Cyber-anthropology,
Cyber-diplomacy, and Information Technology and Justice.
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Modeling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies - First International EURO Mini Conference, MSBC 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 18-20, 2019, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Nitin Agarwal, Leonidas Sakalauskas, Gerhard Wilhelm Weber
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R1,557
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This volume constitutes the proceedings of the First International
EURO Mini Conference on Modelling and Simulation of
Social-Behavioural Phenomena in Creative Societies, MSBC 2019, held
in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2019. The 8 full papers and 2
short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26
submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical
sections: computational intelligence in social sciences; modeling
and analysis of social-behavioral processes.
The quintessential guide providing a one-stop roadmap to a
neurosurgical career! Neurological surgery is a complex, highly
selective specialty. For medical students and residents, navigating
a huge array of neurosurgical information can be overwhelming.
Neurosurgery Fundamentals by Nitin Agarwal is a portable reference
enabling swift assimilation of neurosurgical care essentials. The
book starts with a roadmap to a career in neurosurgery. It
concludes with Advice from the Masters, featuring invaluable
resources and insights from prominent neurosurgeons. Comprehensive
technical overviews are provided on the neurological exam,
neuroanatomy, neuroradiology, neurocritical care, traumatic brain
and spinal cord injury, degenerative and deformity spine,
neurovascular surgery, neurosurgical oncology, pediatric
neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery,
neurological infectious diseases, and interdisciplinary care.
Socioeconomic topics include training, licensure, credentialing,
and advocacy. Key Features Fundamental diseases, tests, and
operative approaches are summarized. Top Hits feature the most
salient questions, aiding in retention of knowledge. High-yield
resources are highlighted to augment reader identification.
Neurosurgical Pearls offer advice from the masters relevant to each
chapter. High-quality illustrations, photographs, and radiographs
enrich understanding. Aspiring neurosurgical providers will benefit
from the easy-to-digest wealth of information in this concise, yet
comprehensive guide. This book includes complimentary access to a
digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.
With the high prevalence of autism spectrum disorders among the
younger generation, there is a shortage of adequate resources to
deliver care for these individuals. Therefore, social media and
online forums help create a sense of community and a sense of
social network, where members provide support for each other.
Assessing Social Support and Stress in Autism-Focused Virtual
Communities: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical
reference volume featuring the latest academic research on online
communities and how using social media can provide stress relief
for families and individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum
disorder. Including coverage among a variety of applicable
viewpoints and subjects such as social media concepts, stress
relief, and healthcare communities, this book is ideally designed
for academics and practitioners as well as healthcare
professionals, researchers, students, academics, and practitioners
looking for innovative research on autism spectrum disorders.
Physicians have long pledged to adhere to four basic moral
principles, a concise framework for the larger field of medical
ethics. As is commonly known, those values consist of autonomy,
beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. However, in order to
advocate for these principles for patients, medical professionals
must first ensure patients have appropriate medical resources from
which to glean information. This book serves to underscore this
concept and advance the field of patient education.
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