Social Informatics
Third International Conference, SocInfo 2011, Singapore, October 6-8, 2011, Proceedings
Published on 7. October 2011
XVII, 342 pages
978-3-642-24704-0 (ISBN)
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2011, held in Singapore in October 2011. The 15 full papers, 8 short papers and 13 posters included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 full paper and 13 poster submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: network analysis; eGovernance and knowledge management; applications of network analysis; community dynamics; case studies; trust, privacy and security; peer-production.
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Social Informatics
Third International Conference, SocInfo 2011, Singapore, October 6-8, 2011, Proceedings
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Content
- Title
- Preface
- Organization
- Table of Contents
- Keynotes
- Digital Media and the Relational Revolution in Social Science
- Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st Century Multidimensional Networks
- Data Mining as a Key Enabler of Computational Social Science
- Predicting Market Movements: From Breaking News to Emerging Social Media
- Invited Talks
- Learning Information Di usion Models from Observation and Its Application to Behavior Analysis
- Analysis of Twitter Unfollow: How often Do People Unfollow in Twitter andWhy?
- Network Analysis
- Robustness of Social Networks: Comparative Results Based on Distance Distributions
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Computing the Distance Distribution
- Removal Strategies and Their Analysis
- Some Removal Strategies
- Measures of Divergence
- Experiments
- Discussion
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Endogenous Control of DeGroot Learning
- Introduction
- DeGroot Belief Learning
- Endogenous Control
- BLIFT Algorithm
- Convergence of BLIFT
- Example
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Mathematical Continuity in Dynamic Social Networks
- Introduction
- Closure
- Neighborhood Closure
- Transformations
- Network Transformations
- Network Growth
- Network Contraction
- Continuity in Practice
- Network Reduction
- Fuzzy Closure
- Summary
- References
- eGovernance and Knowledge Management
- Government 2.0 Collects the Wisdom of Crowds
- An Emerging Wave
- How Does a Government Collect the Wisdom of Crowds?
- Contest
- Wiki
- Social Networking
- Social Voting
- Further Discussions and Conclusions
- References
- Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations for Analyzing Problematic Search Engine Use
- Introduction
- Theoretical Foundations for Problematic Search Engine Use
- Problematic Internet Use
- Cognitive Shift
- Research Framework
- Implications
- Future Avenues
- References
- The Role of Trust and ICT Proficiency in Structuring the Cross-Boundary Digital Government Research
- Introduction
- Literature Review and Hypothesis Development
- Multi-cultural Research Team Structure and the Role of Communication Medium
- Trust and the Role in Collaboration
- Research Design and Methodology
- Results and Discussion
- The Structure of NADGWG Collaboration: Network Closure and "Small World" Network
- Differential Impact of Communication Medium
- The Role of Trust in Structuring Collaboration
- Conclusion
- References
- Integration and Warehousing of Social Metadata for Search and Assessment of Scientific Knowledge
- Introduction
- State of The Art
- Conceptual Model
- Socially-oriented Scientific Resource Space and Metadata Integration
- Metadata Warehousing
- On-demand Data Acquisition and Integration
- Preliminary Results and Conclusion
- References
- Applications of Network Analysis
- Comparing Linkage Graph and Activity Graph of Online Social Networks
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Structural Property Analysis
- Datasets
- Static Properties
- Dynamic Properties
- Degree Correlation
- Network Generator
- Generator Description
- Experiments
- Discussion
- Information Dissemination
- Trust Inference
- Conclusion
- References
- Context-Aware Nearest Neighbor Query on Social Networks
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Shortest Path Search and Keywords Query
- Signature
- Problem Definition
- Hyper-Graph based Approximation
- Basic Idea
- Hyper Graph Index
- Approximated Search Algorithm
- Experiments
- Evaluating Center Node Selection Schemes
- Performance of ACANN Search Algorithm
- Conclusion
- References
- Using Tag Recommendations to Homogenize Folksonomies in Microblogging Environments
- Introduction
- Used Dataset for Recommendations
- Hashtag Recommendations
- Similarity of Messages
- Ranking
- Evaluation
- Recall and Precision, F-Measure
- Refinement of Recommendations
- Related Work
- Conclusion
- References
- Community Dynamics
- A Spectral Analysis Approach for Social Media Community Detection
- Background
- Methodology
- Temporal Coherence Analysis
- Soft Community Detection
- Experiment
- Dataset
- Experiment Results
- Evaluation
- Conclusions
- References
- Design of a Reputation System Based on Dynamic Coalition Formation
- Introduction
- Uncertainty and Subjectivity in Trust Modeling
- Dynamic Coalition Formation
- Model Overview
- Credit Allocation Algorithm
- Stability Analysis and Proof
- Analysis
- Stability Proof
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Guild Play in MMOGs: Rethinking Common Group Dynamics Models
- Introduction
- Models of Guild Formation in MMOGs
- Criticism and Alternative Models
- Experiments and Simulations
- Conclusion
- References
- Tadvise: A Twitter Assistant Based on Twitter Lists
- Introduction
- Tadvise Overview and Components
- Crawler of Tadvise
- User Profile Builder of Tadvise
- Advice Engine of Tadvise
- Evaluation and User Study
- Experiment - Design
- Experiment - Result
- Conclusion
- References
- Case Studies
- A Case Study of the Effects of Moderator Posts within a Facebook Brand Page
- Introduction
- Related Work
- The Method
- The Dataset
- Post Categories Assignment
- Used Variables
- Data Analysis
- Results
- Post Type
- Post Category
- Day of Week
- Discussion and Conclusions
- Future Work
- References
- Cognition or Affect? - Exploring Information Processing on Facebook
- Introduction
- Theoretical Background
- Attitude Formation Process
- Information Processing
- The Model
- Derivation of Hypotheses
- Empirical Study
- Survey Design and Sampling
- Development of Measurement Scales
- Descriptive Statistics
- Evaluation of the Measurement Model
- Evaluation of the Structural Model
- Discussion and Implications
- Conclusion
- Limitations and Next Steps
- References
- Trust, Privacy, and Security
- Trend Analysis and Recommendation of Users' Privacy Settings on Social Networking Services
- Introduction
- Collecting Open Privacy Settings and Profiles
- CollectionMethod and User Categorization
- Analysis of Collected Open Profiles
- Trend Analysis of Open Privacy Settings
- Computing Privacy Score by Item Response Theory
- Privacy Score Distributions
- Assisting Privacy Settings
- Collected Privacy Settings
- Settings Visualization
- Privacy Score Diagnosis
- Recommendation by Attribute Co-occurrence
- System Implementation
- System Architecture
- User Interface
- Evaluation
- Conclusion
- References
- Semantics-Enabled Policies for Information Sharing and Protection in the Cloud
- Introduction
- Research Issues and Contributions
- Background and Related Work
- Semantics-Enabled Formal Policies
- Formal Policy Representation
- Formal Policy Compliance
- Formal Policy Framework
- Formal Policy Deployment
- Unifying Formal Policies
- Formal Policy Integration
- Privacy Protection Policies
- National Security Policies
- Unifying Privacy Protection and National Security Policies
- Formal Policy Enforcement
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Social Mechanism of Granting Trust Basing on Polish Wikipedia Requests for Adminship
- Introduction
- Problem Statement
- Related Work
- Polish Wikipedia Adminship
- Basic RfA Statistics
- Candidates' Experience on Wikipedia
- Comparison of Votes with Wikipedia Implicit Social Network
- Wikipedia Implicit Social Network
- Network Structure
- Common Links in Implicit Social Network and RfA Networks
- Significance of Difference between Mean Values
- Results
- Conclusions
- Further Research
- References
- Revealing Beliefs Influencing Trust between Members of the Czech Informatics Community
- Introduction
- Concept of Trust as "Trusting Intention"
- Review of Trusting Beliefs in Literature
- Trusting Beliefs in SoSIReCR
- Selection Process Evaluation
- Related Work
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Peer-Production
- High-Throughput Crowdsourcing Mechanisms for Complex Tasks
- Introduction
- Formal Notions
- Decisions, Tasks and Functions
- Types of Errors
- Parameters and Figures
- Related Work
- r-Redundancy
- Agreement Games
- Other Approaches
- High-Throughput Crowdsourcing
- Base Case
- v-Voting
- Vote Boosting
- Evaluation
- Experimental Setup
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Designing for Motivation: Focusing on Motivational Values in Two Case Studies
- Introduction
- Value Sensitive Design as a Methodological Framework
- Investigating Motivations from a VSD Perspective
- Conceptual Investigations
- Empirical Investigations
- Technical Investigations
- Conclusion
- References
- A Bounded Confidence Approach to Understanding User Participation in Peer Production Systems
- Introduction
- Related Work
- An Agent-Based Model of Commons-Based Peer Production
- Evaluation Methods
- Computer Code Emulation via Gaussian Processes
- Global Sensitivity Analysis
- Results
- Simulation Scenario
- Transient
- Factor Screening via Global Sensitivity Analysis
- User Lifetime Distribution
- Discussion
- References
- Posters/Demos
- Modelling Social Network Evolution
- Introduction
- The Difference of Graphs - Graph Differential Tuple
- General Concept
- Graph Differential Tuple
- Case Study
- The Measures of Distance between Graphs
- The Sum
- The Normalised Sum
- The Relative Sum
- Based on Edge Modification
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Towards High-Quality Semantic Entity Detection over Online Forums
- Introduction
- Approach with External Resources
- Experiment
- Related Work
- Conclusion
- References
- "I'm Not an Alcoholic, I'm Australian": An Exploration of Alcohol Discourse in Facebook Groups
- Introduction
- Literature Review
- Methodology and Results
- Conclusion
- References
- Impact of Expertise, Social Cohesiveness and Team Repetition for Academic Team Recommendation
- Introduction
- Representation of Socio-semantic Interactions
- Experiments
- Conclusion
- References
- CEO's Apology in Twitter: A Case Study of the Fake Beef Labeling Incident by E-Mart
- Introduction
- Data Methodology
- Sentiment Analysis
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- GViewer: GPU-Accelerated Graph Visualization and Mining
- Introduction
- System Implementation
- Case Studies
- References
- Sharing Scientific Knowledge with Knowledge Spaces
- Introduction
- Knowledge Spaces
- Knowledge Spaces Applications
- Findings, Status and Next Steps
- Reference
- Analysis of Multiplayer Platform Users Activity Based on the Virtual and Real Time Dimension
- Introduction
- Motivation and Conceptual Framework
- Empirical Data Analysis Based on Real and Virtual Time
- Summary and Future Work
- References
- Tracking Group Evolution in Social Networks
- Introduction
- Group Evolution
- Tracking Group Evolution in Social Networks
- References
- Gathering in Digital Spaces: Exploring Topical Communities on Twitter
- Introduction and Related Work
- Research Method and Results
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- "Eco-MAME": Ecology Activity Promotion System Based on Human Psychological Characteristics
- Introduction
- Psychological Factors Related to Environmentally Conscious Behaviors and System Architecture
- Implemented System and Local Experiment
- Conclusion
- References
- SPLASH: Blending Gaming and Content Sharing in a Location-Based Mobile Application
- Introduction
- Introducing SPLASH
- Conclusion
- References
- An Interactive Social Boarding System Using Home Infotainment Platform
- Introduction
- System Architecture
- Proposed Methodology
- Use Case 1: Ordering Food and Booking Table in a Restaurant
- Use Case 2: Connecting Social Network Friends
- Other possible Use Cases
- Conclusion
- References
- Tutorials
- From Computational to Human Trust: Problems, Methods and Applications of Trust Management
- Introduction
- Text Analytics for Social Research
- Introduction
- Author Index
