Application of Agent Based Modeling in the Analysis of Complex Social Systems: The Methodology of Innovation Systems Analysis by Saeed Roshany

“…Agent based modeling is the main approach that define in this article that combine some concept such as game theory, complex systems, emergent property, computational social science, multy-agent systems and monte Carlo to provide a convergence logic for understanding complex systems. …”
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The anatomy of Reddit: an overview of academic research by Medvedev, A, Lambiotte, R, Delvenne, J

“…Importantly, the datasets generated by the activity of the users are often openly available for researchers, in contrast to other sources of data in computational social science. In this survey, we map the main research directions that arose in recent years and focus primarily on the most popular platform, Reddit. …”

rang: Reconstructing reproducible R computational environments. by Chung-Hong Chan, David Schoch

“…In this contribution, we show how rang can be used to make otherwise unexecutable code, spanning fields such as computational social science and bioinformatics, executable again. …”
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Social Intervention and Governance of Youth School Bullying—Based on Computer Medical Data Analysis by Jiahui Zhao

“…The rise of computational social science provides a new method for campus bullying research based on large-scale data collection, calculation and analysis. …”
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Discovering social events through online attention. by Dror Y Kenett, Fred Morstatter, H Eugene Stanley, Huan Liu

“…By combining methods from computational social science with methods from economics, we introduce an approach that can effectively locate crisis events in the mountains of data generated on Twitter. …”
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Time-Varying Volatility in Bitcoin Market and Information Flow at Minute-Level Frequency by Irena Barjašić, Nino Antulov-Fantulin

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Predicting human preferences using the block structure of complex social networks. by Roger Guimerà, Alejandro Llorente, Esteban Moro, Marta Sales-Pardo

“…Understanding and predicting preferences is also important from a fundamental point of view, as part of what has been called a "new" computational social science. Here, we propose a novel approach based on stochastic block models, which have been developed by sociologists as plausible models of complex networks of social interactions. …”
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Color me honest! Time pressure and (dis)honest behavior by Carina I. Hausladen, Olexandr Nikolaychuk, Olexandr Nikolaychuk

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Yahtzee: an anonymized group level matching procedure. by Jason J Jones, Robert M Bond, Christopher J Fariss, Jaime E Settle, Adam D I Kramer, Cameron Marlow, James H Fowler

“…The advent of computational social science and the enormous amount of data about people that is being collected makes protecting the privacy of research subjects ever more important. …”
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How search engines disseminate information about COVID-19 and why they should do better by Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman, Roberto Ulloa

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Opinion Dynamics with Higher-Order Bounded Confidence by Chaoqian Wang

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COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry by Corey Schimpf, Brian Castellani

“…COMPLEX-IT is a case-based, mixed-methods platform for applied social inquiry into complex data/systems, designed to increase non-expert access to the tools of computational social science (i.e., cluster analysis, artificial intelligence, data visualization, data forecasting, and scenario simulation). …”
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Quantifying the differences in <italic toggle="yes">call detail records</italic> by Federico Botta

“…We anticipate our findings to be of interest to all researchers working in the area of computational social science.…”
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Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics by Krafft, Peter M., Macy, Michael, Pentland, Alex "Sandy"

“…The use of bots as virtual confederates in online field experiments holds extreme promise as a new methodological tool in computational social science. However, this potential tool comes with inherent ethical challenges. …”
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Public attitudes towards social media field experiments by Straub, VJ, Burton, JW, Geers, M, Lorenz-Spreen, P

“…The growing use of social media field experiments demands a rethink of current research ethics in computational social science and psychological research. Here, we provide an exploratory empirical account of key user concerns and outline a number of critical discussions that need to take place to protect participants and help researchers to make use of the novel opportunities of digital data collection and field studies. …”

Deep Reinforcement Meta-Learning and Self-Organization in Complex Systems: Applications to Traffic Signal Control by Marcin Korecki

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Capability Building for Government Big Data Safety Protection:Discussions from Technologicaland Management Perspectives by SUN Xuan, WANG Huan-xiao

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Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API by Jürgen Pfeffer, Katja Mayer, Fred Morstatter

“…Abstract Social media data is widely analyzed in computational social science. Twitter, one of the largest social media platforms, is used for research, journalism, business, and government to analyze human behavior at scale. …”
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Interactional and Informational Attention on Twitter by Agathe Baltzer, Márton Karsai, Camille Roth

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Education policy research in the big data era: Methodological frontiers, misconceptions, and challenges by Yinying Wang

“…Drawing on the recent progress of using big data in public policy and computational social science research, this commentary discusses how to approach big data and how big data can be used in education policy research. …”
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