Social phenomena : from data analysis to models / Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gonçalves, Bruno, editor.

Perra, Nicola, editor.

Series:

Computational social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Mathematical models.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Data processing.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2015.

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 to 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319140108

9783319140100

OCLC:

898418525