Workshop Schedule

30-Mar-08

17:00 - 19:00

Registration & Reception (No-Host Cocktails, Finger Food Provided)

31-Mar-08

07:30 - 16:00

Registration

07:30 - 08:15

Workshop BREAKFAST

08:15 - 08:30

Welcome & Admin (Huan Liu, John Salerno)

08:30 - 09:15

Keynote Talk -- Power and Exploitation in Exchange Networks:A Social-Psychological Model (Slides)
Phillip Bonacich

09:15 - 09:40

Invited Talk -- Research Challenges for Computationally Enabled Social and Collective Intelligence (Slides)
Mary Lou Maher (NSF)

09:40 - 10:10

Coffee BREAK

SESSION 1:

Chairs (Mike Young, Laurie Fenstermacher)

10:10 - 10:35

Invited Talk -- Collective Behaviour and Socio-Cultural Modelling (Slides)
Terry Lyons (AFOSR)

10:35 - 11:00

Cultural Consensus Theory: Aggregating Expert Judgments about Ties in a Social Network (Slides)
William Batchelder

11:00 - 11:25

Collaborating with Multiple Distributed Perspectives and Memories (Slides)
Anthony Ford and Alce Mulvehill

11:25 - 11:50

Finding Influential Nodes in a Social Network from Information Diffusion Data (Slides)
Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Ryohei Nakano and Hiroshi Motota

11:50 - 12:15

Punishment, Rational Expectations, and Relative Payoffs in a Networked Prisoners Dilemma (Slides)
Shade Shutters

12:15 – 13:30

Workshop LUNCH

SESSION 2:

Chairs (Hiroshi Motoda, Kevin Sova)

13:30 - 13:55

Invited Talk -- Reflections on Social Modeling, Stabilization and Twitter  (Slides)
Rebecca Goolsby (ONR)

13:55 - 14:20

Handouts without Handshakes: Patronizing Treatment of Human-Out Groups (Slides)
Tomomi Tanaka and Colin Camerer

14:20 - 14:45

Using Participatory Learning to Model Human Behavior (Slides)
Ronald Yager

14:45 - 15:10

Dynamic Networks: Rapid Assessment of Changing Scenarios (Slides)
Nadya Belov, Michael K. Martin, Jeff Patti, Jeff Reminga, Kathleen M. Carley and Angela Pawlowski

15:10 - 15:40

Coffee BREAK

15:40 - 16:05

Learn to Recommend Tags for On-line Photos (Slides)
Zheshen Wang and Baoxin Li

16:05 – 17:05

5 Min Overviews of Poster Board Presentations (Chair: Guozhu Dong)

Poster Board Session/Buffet Dinner

18:00 - 21:00

A Social Network Model of Alcohol Behaviors (Slides)
Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said

Cognitive Modeling of Household Economic Behaviors during Extreme Events (Slides)
Mark Ehlen, Michael Bernard and Andrew Scholand

The Use of Agent-based Modeling in Projecting Risk Factors into the Future (Slides)
Georgiy Bobashev

Discovery of Monitoring Web Resources Reusing Classification Knowledge (Slides)
Byeong Ho Kang and Yang Sok Kim

Meta-modeling the Cultural Behavior Using Timed Influence Nets (Slides)
Faisal Mansoor, Abbas K. Zaidi, Lee Wagenhals and Alexander H. Levis

Development of an Integrated Sociological Modeling Framework (ISMF) to Model Social Systems (Slides)
LeeRoy Bronner and Babatunde Olubando

Rule Evaluation Model as Behavioral Modeling of Domain Experts (Slides)
Hidenao Abe and Shusaku Tsumoto

A Network-Based Approach to Understanding and Predicting Diseases (Slides)
Karsten Steinhaeuser and Nitesh Chawla

Estimating Cyclic and Geospatial Effects of Alcohol Usage in a Social Network Directed Graph Model (Slides)
Yasmin Said and Edward Wegman

Modeling Populations of Interest in Order to Simulate Cultural Response to Influence Activities (Slides)
Michael Bernard, George Backus, Matthew Glickman, Charles Gieseler and Russel Waymire

Dreamcatcher: Synthesizing the Cognitive Maps of Collectivities (Slides)
Myriam Abramson

Human Predictive Reasoning for Group Interactions (Slides)
Marcus Perry and Jeremy Jordan

1-Apr-08

07:30 - 08:15

Workshop BREAKFAST

08:15 - 09:00

Keynote Talk -- Reality Mining:From Profiles and Demographics to Behavior
Alex (Sandy) Pentland

SESSION 3:

Chairs (George Tadda, Sun-Ki Chai)

09:00 - 09:25

Invited Talk -- Cultural Awareness, Self Awareness, and Consensus Based Assessment (Slides)
Joseph Psotka (ARI)

09:25 - 09:50

Control of Opinions in an Ideologically Homogeneous Population (Slides)
Bruce Rogers and David Murillo

09:50 - 10:15

When is social computation better than the sum of its parts? (Slides)
Vadas Gintautas, Aric Hagberg and Luis Bettencourt

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee BREAK

10:45 - 11:10

A Validation Process for Predicting Stratagemical Behavior Patterns of Powerful Leaders in Conflict (Slides)
Colleen Phillips, Norman Geddes, John Crosscope and Stacey Sokoloff

11:10 - 11:35

HBML: A Representation Language for Quantitative Behavioral Models in the Human Terrain (Slides)
Nils F Sandell, Robert Savell, David Twardowski and George Cybenko

11:35 - 12:00

A Socio-Technical Study to Understand Trustworthiness in Virtual Organizations (Slides)
Shuyuan Mary Ho

12:00 – 13:15

Workshop LUNCH

SESSION 4:

Chairs (Mike Hinman, Joe Antonik)

13:15 – 13:40

Invited Talk -- Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction: Opportunities for Systems Science in Health Research (Slides)
Patricia L. Mabry (NIH/OBSR)

13:40 - 14:05

The Dilemma of Social Order in Iraq (Slides)
Michael Hechter and Nika Kabiri

14:05 - 14:30

VIMS: A Platform for Violent Intent Modeling (Slides)
Antonio Sanfilippo, Jack Schryver, Paul Whitney, Elsa Augustenborg, Gary Danielson and Sandy Thompson

14:30 – 14:55

Behavior Grouping based on Trajectory Mining (Slides)
Shusaku Tsumoto and Shoji Hirano

14:55 – 15:25

Coffee BREAK

15:25 - 15:50

The Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Formation (Slides)
Sun-Ki Chai

15:50 - 16:15

Trust and Privacy in Distributed Groups (Slides)
Denise Anthony, Tristan Henderson, and James Kitts

16:15 – 16:40

Prior-free cost sharing design (Slides)
Ruben Juarez

16:40 – 17:00

Workshop Conclusion and Future Planning

20 min presentations with 5 minutes left for questions


In-Cooperation with ACM SIGKDD

Supported by: AFOSR, AFRL, and ONR; Sponsored by NSF, and NIH.