Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (eBook)

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- List of Contributors.- Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling.- The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): Social network and analytic tools for the real-time analysis of terror groups.- The Sociology of Alien Rule.- The DoD Encounters the Blogosphere.- Integrating Multi-Agent Technology with Cognitive Modeling to Develop an Insurgency Information Framework (IIF).- Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents: A Case Study with Hezbollah.- An approach to modeling group behaviors and beliefs in conflict situations.- Computational Models of Multi-national Organizations.- Clustering of Trajectory Data Obtained from Soccer Game Records - A First Step to Behavioral Modeling.- Mobile Phone Data for Inferring Social Network Structure.- Human Behavioral Modeling Using Fuzzy and Dempster-Shafer Theory.- Online Behavioral Analysis and Modeling Methodology (OBAMM - Mining for Social Processes in Intelligence Data Streams.- An Ant Colony Optimization Approach to Expert Identification in Social Networks.- Attribution-based Anomaly Detection: Trustworthiness in an Online Community.- Particle Swarm Social Model for Group Social Learning in Adaptive Environment.- Social Network Analysis: Tasks and Tools.- Behavioral Entropy of a Cellular Phone.- Community Detection in a Large Real-World Social Network.- Where are the slums? New approaches to urban regeneration.- A Composable Discrete-Time Cellular Automaton Formalism.- Designing Group Annotations and Process Visualizations for Role-Based Collaboration.- Modeling Malaysian Public Opinion by Mining the Malaysian Blogosphere.- Reading Between the Lines: Human-centered Classification of Communication Patterns and Intentions.- Metagame Strategies of Nation-States, with Application to Cross-Strait Relations.- Automating Frame Analysis.- Using Topic Analysis to Compute Identity Group Attributes.- Biographies.- Author Index.