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Computational Social Science

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2019) | Viewed by 25305

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Kimmo Kaski

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Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, P.O.Box 15500, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Interests: computational science; statistical physics; complex systems; complex networks; data science; computational social science
Prof. Dr. Hang-Hyun Jo

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Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
Interests: statistical physics; complex systems; networks; bursty dynamics
Prof. Dr. Gerardo Iñiguez

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Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University, Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: computational social science; computational sociology; computer and information sciences; network science; social networks; social media; systems science; agent-based modeling; complex systems; computer modeling; computerized simulations; applied mathematics; interdisciplinary physics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The last centuries have seen a great surge in our understanding and control of ‘simple’ physical, chemical, and biological processes through data analysis and the mathematical modelling of their underlying dynamics. Encouraged by its success, researchers have recently embarked on extending such approaches to gain qualitative and quantitative understanding of social and economic systems and the dynamics in and of them. This has become possible due to the massive amounts of data generated by information-communication technologies and the unprecedented fusion of off- and on-line human activity. However, due to the presence of adaptability, feedback loops, and strong heterogeneities of the individuals and interactions making up our modern digital societies, it is yet unclear if statistical ‘laws’ of socio-technical behaviour even exist, akin to those found for natural processes. Such continuing search has resulted in the fields of computational social science and social network science, which share the goal of first analysing social phenomena and then modelling them with enough accuracy to make reliable predictions. This Special Issue invites contributions to such fields of study, with focus on the temporal evolution and dynamics of complex social systems. As topics of interest, we propose research on more realistic models of social dynamics, the use of statistical inference, machine learning, and other cross-disciplinary techniques to complement the analysis of social dynamics, and the creation of loops between data acquisition and model analysis to increase accuracy in the prediction of social trends. We hope this Special Issue will bring together expertise from a wide range of research communities interested in similar topics, including computational social science, network science, information science, and complexity science.

Prof. Dr. Kimmo Kaski
Prof. Dr. Hang-Hyun Jo
Prof. Dr. Gerardo Iñiguez
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • computational social science
  • complex social systems and dynamics
  • social network analysis and modeling
  • collective dynamics in social and economic systems
  • social physics and econophysics
  • temporally evolving social networks
  • online and offline social networks
  • information diffusion, social contagion, and opinion formation
  • collective intelligence
  • crowd-sourcing; herding behavior vs. wisdom of crowds
  • human mobility and transportation
  • group formation, evolution and group behavior analysis
  • modeling, tracking, and forecasting dynamic groups in social media
  • community detection and dynamic community structure analysis
  • social simulation and computing
  • empirical calibration and validation of agent-based models
  • coevolution of network and behavior

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Special Issue “Computational Social Science”
by Gerardo Iñiguez, Hang-Hyun Jo and Kimmo Kaski
Information 2019, 10(10), 307; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10100307 - 1 Oct 2019
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 2689
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The last centuries have seen a great surge in our understanding and control of “simple” physical, chemical, and biological processes through data analysis and the mathematical modeling of their underlying dynamics [...] Full article
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Interactional and Informational Attention on Twitter
by Agathe Baltzer, Márton Karsai and Camille Roth
Information 2019, 10(8), 250; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10080250 - 29 Jul 2019
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Twitter may be considered to be a decentralized social information processing platform whose users constantly receive their followees’ information feeds, which they may in turn dispatch to their followers. This decentralization is not devoid of hierarchy and heterogeneity, both in terms of activity [...] Read more.
Twitter may be considered to be a decentralized social information processing platform whose users constantly receive their followees’ information feeds, which they may in turn dispatch to their followers. This decentralization is not devoid of hierarchy and heterogeneity, both in terms of activity and attention. In particular, we appraise the distribution of attention at the collective and individual level, which exhibits the existence of attentional constraints and focus effects. We observe that most users usually concentrate their attention on a limited core of peers and topics, and discuss the relationship between interactional and informational attention processes—all of which, we suggest, may be useful to refine influence models by enabling the consideration of differential attention likelihood depending on users, their activity levels, and peers’ positions. Full article
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A Novel Approach for Web Service Recommendation Based on Advanced Trust Relationships
by Lijun Duan, Hao Tian and Kun Liu
Information 2019, 10(7), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10070233 - 6 Jul 2019
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Service recommendation is one of the important means of service selection. Aiming at the problems of ignoring the influence of typical data sources such as service information and interaction logs on the similarity calculation of user preferences and insufficient consideration of dynamic trust [...] Read more.
Service recommendation is one of the important means of service selection. Aiming at the problems of ignoring the influence of typical data sources such as service information and interaction logs on the similarity calculation of user preferences and insufficient consideration of dynamic trust relationship in traditional trust-based Web service recommendation methods, a novel approach for Web service recommendation based on advanced trust relationships is presented. After considering the influence of indirect trust paths, the improved calculation about indirect trust degree is proposed. By quantifying the popularity of service, the method of calculating user preference similarity is investigated. Furthermore, the dynamic adjustment mechanism of trust is designed by differentiating the effect of each service recommendation. Integrating these efforts, a service recommendation mechanism is introduced, in which a new service recommendation algorithm is described. Experimental results show that, compared with existing methods, the proposed approach not only has higher accuracy of service recommendation, but also can resist attacks from malicious users more effectively. Full article
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Dynamic Evolution Model of a Collaborative Innovation Network from the Resource Perspective and an Application Considering Different Government Behaviors
by Zhaoyang Wu, Yunfei Shao and Lu Feng
Information 2019, 10(4), 138; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10040138 - 12 Apr 2019
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The evolution of a collaborative innovation network depends on the interrelationships among the innovation subjects. Every single small change affects the network topology, which leads to different evolution results. A logical relationship exists between network evolution and innovative behaviors. An accurate understanding of [...] Read more.
The evolution of a collaborative innovation network depends on the interrelationships among the innovation subjects. Every single small change affects the network topology, which leads to different evolution results. A logical relationship exists between network evolution and innovative behaviors. An accurate understanding of the characteristics of the network structure can help the innovative subjects to adopt appropriate innovative behaviors. This paper summarizes the three characteristics of collaborative innovation networks, knowledge transfer, policy environment, and periodic cooperation, and it establishes a dynamic evolution model for a resource-priority connection mechanism based on innovation resource theory. The network subjects are not randomly testing all of the potential partners, but have a strong tendency to, which is, innovation resource. The evolution process of a collaborative innovation network is simulated with three different government behaviors as experimental objects. The evolution results show that the government should adopt the policy of supporting the enterprises that recently entered the network, which can maintain the innovation vitality of the network and benefit the innovation output. The results of this study also provide a reference for decision-making by the government and enterprises. Full article
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Analysis of SAP Log Data Based on Network Community Decomposition
by Martin Kopka and Miloš Kudělka
Information 2019, 10(3), 92; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10030092 - 1 Mar 2019
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Information systems support and ensure the practical running of the most critical business processes. There exists (or can be reconstructed) a record (log) of the process running in the information system. Computer methods of data mining can be used for analysis of process [...] Read more.
Information systems support and ensure the practical running of the most critical business processes. There exists (or can be reconstructed) a record (log) of the process running in the information system. Computer methods of data mining can be used for analysis of process data utilizing support techniques of machine learning and a complex network analysis. The analysis is usually provided based on quantitative parameters of the running process of the information system. It is not so usual to analyze behavior of the participants of the running process from the process log. Here, we show how data and process mining methods can be used for analyzing the running process and how participants behavior can be analyzed from the process log using network (community or cluster) analyses in the constructed complex network from the SAP business process log. This approach constructs a complex network from the process log in a given context and then finds communities or patterns in this network. Found communities or patterns are analyzed using knowledge of the business process and the environment in which the process operates. The results demonstrate the possibility to cover up not only the quantitative but also the qualitative relations (e.g., hidden behavior of participants) using the process log and specific knowledge of the business case. Full article
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Axiomatisation and Simulation
by Klaus G. Troitzsch
Information 2019, 10(2), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10020053 - 6 Feb 2019
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The paper discusses the relation between the “non-statement view” of the structuralist program in philosophy of science and agent-based simulation and the use of this relation for a deeper understanding of the verification and the validation of simulation models. To this end it [...] Read more.
The paper discusses the relation between the “non-statement view” of the structuralist program in philosophy of science and agent-based simulation and the use of this relation for a deeper understanding of the verification and the validation of simulation models. To this end it uses the history of the gender desegregation process in German schools in the second half of the 20th century and two simulation models trying to explain and understand this historical process. The relation between the two simulation models on one hand and the structuralist reconstruction of the mental and verbal theory of the observed phenomenon is depicted step by step, showing the verification of the more recent simulation model along the lines of the formal definition of this theory. Finally, the simulation model is used to make two unobservable parameters measurable with the help of the formalised theory, which allows new insights into the historical process. Full article
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