Advances in Computational Social Science

Online Communities and Social Media.- Stock BBS Factor Model Using Principal Component Score.- How Consumer-Generated Advertising Works: An Empirical Agent-Based Simulation.- Understanding Citizens' Channel Choice of Public Service Delivery: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach.- Cyclical Pattern of the Rise and Fall of an Online Community Due to a Troll.- Economic and Social Networks.- On the Indeterminacy of the Clearing Payment Vectors in Numerical Simulations on Financial Networks.- Three-State Opinion Formation Model on Adaptive Networks and Time to Consensus.- Achieving Consensus with Segregation in Multiple Social Contexts.- Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics.- How Does Overconfidence Affect Asset Pricing, Volatility, and Volume?.- Analyzing the Validity of Passive Investment Strategies Under Financial Constraints.- Macroeconomic Forecasting with Agent-Based Models: Prediction and Simulation of the Impact of Public Policies on SMEs.- Influence of the Corporation Tax Rate on GDP in an Agent-Based Artificial Economic System.- Demographics, Health Care, Linguistics, and Sociology.- Semi-Artificial Models of Populations: Connecting Demography with Agent-Based Modelling.- An Agent-Based Approach for Patient Satisfaction and Collateral Health Effects.- Complex Evolutionary Pathways in Interacting Linguistic Communities.- Socio-Cognitive Influences on Social Stratification.- Participatory Modeling.- A Computational Study of Rule Learning in "Do-It-Yourself Lottery" with Aggregate Information.- Agent-Based Social Simulation as an Aid to Communication Between Stakeholders.- Hybrid Approach of Agent-Based and Gaming Simulations for Stakeholder Accreditation.- Methodology.- When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data?.- Towards Validating a Model of Households and Societies in East Africa.- Social Simulation Comparison in Arbitrary Problem Domains: First Steps Towards a More Principled Approach.