System dynamics modeling for pro-active intelligence by Anderson, Ed, Choucri, Nazli, Goldsmith, Daniel, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael, Sturtevant, Dan

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Investigating the cross-platform behaviours of online hate groups by Zahrah, F

“…Due to this complexity, research into online hate is fragmented throughout numerous disciplines, including computational social science. Previous research has demonstrated how online hate thrives globally through self-organised, scalable clusters that interconnect to form robust networks spread across multiple social-media platforms, countries, and languages. …”

Applications of social data science to environmental communication on social media by Sanford, M

“…I then present four empirical chapters, each addressing one of these gaps using mixed-method and interdisciplinary computational social science approaches.</p> <p>The first empirical chapter (Chapter 3) addresses commercial engagement and controversy in vegan activism as a site of targeted environmental activism. …”

GestroNet: A Framework of Saliency Estimation and Optimal Deep Learning Features Based Gastrointestinal Diseases Detection and Classification by Muhammad Attique Khan, Naveera Sahar, Wazir Zada Khan, Majed Alhaisoni, Usman Tariq, Muhammad H. Zayyan, Ye Jin Kim, Byoungchol Chang

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The digital dynamics of social movements: the case of #MeToo by Au, H

“…This thesis additionally develops new computational social science methodologies to study transnational social movements: the development of new agent-based modeling is used to model social movement diffusion theory, and multilingual natural language processing techniques paired with qualitative coding of rape myths in the media allow for the study of #MeToo in greater depth than existing literature encompasses. …”

OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media by Clayton A. Davis, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Luca Maria Aiello, Keychul Chung, Michael D. Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Geoffrey C. Fox, Xiaoming Gao, Bruno Gonçalves, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Kibeom Hong, Pik-Mai Hui, Scott McCaulay, Karissa McKelvey, Mark R. Meiss, Snehal Patil, Chathuri Peli Kankanamalage, Valentin Pentchev, Judy Qiu, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Alex Rudnick, Benjamin Serrette, Prashant Shiralkar, Onur Varol, Lilian Weng, Tak-Lon Wu, Andrew J. Younge, Filippo Menczer

“…Here we present the IUNI Observatory on Social Media, an open analytics platform designed to facilitate computational social science. The system leverages a historical, ongoing collection of over 70 billion public messages from Twitter. …”
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Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure by Federico Musciotto, Begoña Dobon, Michael Greenacre, Alex Mira, Nikhil Chaudhary, Gul Deniz Salali, Pascale Gerbault, Rodolph Schlaepfer, Leonora H. Astete, Marilyn Ngales, Jesus Gomez-Gardenes, Vito Latora, Federico Battiston, Jaume Bertranpetit, Lucio Vinicius, Andrea Bamberg Migliano

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Understanding social influence using network analysis and machine learning by Adjodah, Dhaval D. K. (Adjodlah, Dhaval Dhamnidhi Kumar)

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Industrial, Collaborative and Mobile Robotics in Latin America: Review of Mechatronic Technologies for Advanced Automation by Jose Cornejo, S. Barrera, C. A. Herrera Ruiz, F. Gutierrez, M. O. Casasnovas, Leonardo Kot, M. A. Solis, R. Larenas, F. Castro-Nieny, M. R. Arbulú Saavedra, R. Rodríguez Serrezuela, Y. Muñoz Londoño, Alejandro Serna, D. Ortega-Aranda, S. Aranda-Miramontes, I. Chang, M. Cardona, A. Carrasquilla-Batista, R. Palomares, R. Rodriguez, Ruben Parisuaña, Miguel Bórquez, Oscar Navarro, Fernando Sanchez, I. A. Bonev, Jonathan Coulombe, F. Martín Rico, B. L. Treviño-Elizondo, H. García-Reyes, A. Sollazzo, A. Dubor, A. Markopoulou, C. De Marinis, Marco Chacin, Andres Mora, M. Pérez-Ruiz, A. Ribeiro, E. A. L'Huillier

“…In addition, the integration with industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing, architecture and construction, aerospace, smart agriculture, artificial intelligence, and computational social science (human-robot interaction) is analyzed to show the promising features of these growing tech areas, considering the improvements to increase production, manufacturing, and education in the Region. …”
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Sandkastengespräche im Netz? Leitbilder „guter Erziehung“ in einem digitalen Elternforum by Fabian Gülzau

“…With “topic modeling”, an innovative approach from the computational social sciences (CSS), is combined with qualitative content analysis. …”
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Mobile Network Data for Public-Health: Opportunities and Challenges by Nuria eOliver, Aleksandar eMatic, Enrique eFrias-Martinez

“…Since then it has grown into a fertile area of research named computational social sciences with a wide variety of applications in different fields such as social networks, urban and transport planning, economic development, emergency relief and, recently, public health. …”
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From Responsible Research and Innovation to responsibility by design by Bernd Carsten Stahl, Simisola Akintoye, Lise Bitsch, Berit Bringedal, Damian Eke, Michele Farisco, Karin Grasenick, Manuel Guerrero, William Knight, Tonii Leach, Sven Nyholm, George Ogoh, Achim Rosemann, Arleen Salles, Julia Trattnig, Inga Ulnicane

“…Drawing on more than eight years working to implement Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the Human Brain Project, a large EU-funded research project that brings together neuroscience, computing, social sciences, and the humanities, and one of the largest investments in RRI in one project, this article offers insights on RRI and explores its possible future. …”
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Big data and Belmont: On the ethics and research implications of consumer-based datasets by Remy Stewart

“…The sheer magnitude and population coverage of available consumer-based datasets and the opacity of the business practices that create these datasets pose emergent ethical challenges within the computational social sciences that have begun to incorporate consumer-based datasets into empirical research. …”
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Investigating the conditions for the development of the public sphere on the social network Twitter by soha saleh, Alireza Haddadi

“…The present study, in the paradigm of cognitive interdisciplinary sciences and using the method of computing social sciences, examines the social relations network available on Twitter of Iranian users and examines the realization of the public sphere. …”
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Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts by Rob Kitchin

“…In particular, it critically explores new forms of empiricism that declare ‘the end of theory’, the creation of data-driven rather than knowledge-driven science, and the development of digital humanities and computational social sciences that propose radically different ways to make sense of culture, history, economy and society. …”
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Network Analysis of Twitter Users in Iran; Studying Public Sphere Properties by Hamid Abdollahyan, Soha Saleh

“…To achieve this objective, the paper provides a synthesis of computational social sciences, network analysis, and Habermas’s approach to the public sphere. …”
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The research of social processes at the university using big data by Hacimahmud Abdullayev Vugar, Ali Ragimova Nazila, Etibar Khalilov Matlab

“…For this, there consider digital sociology and computational social sciences. One of the main objects of study in sociology is social processes. …”
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Statistically validated mobile communication networks: the evolution of motifs in European and Chinese data by Ming-Xia Li, Vasyl Palchykov, Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Kimmo Kaski, János Kertész, Salvatore Miccichè, Michele Tumminello, Wei-Xing Zhou, Rosario N Mantegna

“…In particular, communication data serve as major sources for computational social sciences, but they have to be cleaned and filtered as they may contain spurious information due to recording errors as well as interactions, like commercial and marketing activities, not directly related to the social network. …”
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Building Social Media Observatories for Monitoring Online Opinion Dynamics by Tom Willaert, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls, Luc Steels

“…The article positions the concept of “observatories” for social media monitoring among ongoing methodological developments in the computational social sciences and humanities and proceeds to discuss the technological innovations and design choices behind social media observatories currently under development for the study of opinions related to cultural and societal issues in European spaces. …”
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Dynamical networks of influence in small group discussions by Moussaïd, Mehdi, Noriega Campero, Alejandro, Almaatouq, Abdullah

“…The numerous predictions of the model can serve as a basis for future experiments, and this work opens research on small group discussion to computational social sciences.…”
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