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Title
Social phenomena [electronic resource] : from data analysis to models / Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, editors.
ISBN
9783319140117 electronic book
3319140116 electronic book
9783319140100
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : color illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-14011-7 doi
Call Number
H61.25
Dewey Decimal Classification
300.1/5118
Summary
This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this area of research, merging an extremely heterogeneous array of datasets and models. Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis℗ℓto Models is divided into two parts. Part I deals with modeling social behavior under normal conditions: How we live, travel, collaborate and interact with each other in our daily lives. Part II deals with societal behavior under exceptional conditions: Protests, armed insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and reactions to infectious diseases. This book offers an overview of one of the most fertile emerging fields bringing together practitioners from scientific communities as diverse as social sciences, physics and computer science. We hope to not only provide an unifying framework to understand and characterize social phenomena, but also to help foster the dialogue between researchers working on similar problems from different fields and perspectives.
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 20, 2015)
Series
Computational social sciences.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319140100
Introduction
Part I ? Social Behavior under normal conditions
Human mobility
Face-to-face interactions
Collaboration networks
Online interactions
Human behavior in financial markets
Social Contagion
Modeling and predicting human infectious diseases
Part II ? Social Behavior under stress
Behavioral changes and adaptation induced by epidemics
Uncovering criminal behavior with computational tools
Crowd behavior
Modeling terroristic escalations and warfare
Discussion and Conclusion.
