Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

Beyond Words: Comparing Structure, Emoji Use, and Consistency Across Social Media Posts.- Bot Impacts on Public Sentiment and Community Structures: Comparative Analysis of Three Elections in the Asia-Pacific.- Understanding Colonial Legacy and Environmental Issues in Senegal through Language Use.- Deploying System Dynamics Models for Disease Surveillance in the Philippines.- MDR Cluster-Debias: A Nonlinear Word Embedding Debiasing Pipeline.- Modeling Interventions for Insider Threat.- Validating Social Media Monitoring: Statistical Pitfalls and Opportunities from Public Opinion.- Lying About Lying on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2019 Canadian Elections.- Breadth verses depth: the impact of tree structure on cultural influence.- Optimizing Attention-Aware Opinion Seeding Strategies.- Polarizing Tweets on Climate Change.- Characterizing Sociolinguistic Variation in the Competing Vaccination Communities.- On Countering Disinformation With Caution: Effective Inoculation Strategiesand Others That Backfire Into Community Hyper-Polarization.- Homicidal Event Forecasting and Interpretable Analysis using Hierarchical Attention Model.- Development of a Hybrid Machine Learning Agent Based Model for Optimization and Interpretability.- Canadian Federal Election and Hashtags That Do Not Belong.- Group Formation Theory at Multiple Scales.- Towards Agent Validation of a Military Cyber Team Performance Simulation.- Developing Graph Theoretic Techniques to Identify Amplification and Coordination Activities of Influential Sets of Users.- Detecting Online Hate Speech: Approaches Using Weak Supervision and Network Embedding Models.- Critical spatial clusters for vaccine preventable diseases.- Multi-cause Discrimination Analysis Using Potential Outcomes.- Twitter is the Megaphone of Cross-Platform Messaging on the White Helmets.- Physiological Signal Embeddings with Nonparametric Hidden Markov Models.- The Rise and Fall of Humanitarian Citizen Initiatives: A simulation-based