Social Phenomena

“As a collection of state-of-the-art summaries and several interesting applications, it could easily form the foundation of multidisciplinary conversations on the future of big data and modeling and simulation to advance understanding of social phenomena. Social Phenomena would serve as a solid starting point for those researchers interested in delving into the increasingly large, available datasets to enhance their models.” (Erika Frydenlund, JASSS The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 19 (2), March, 2016)“This book is essentially a reference book on data analysis and models. It does a superb job in this domain.” (M. M. Tanik, Computing Reviews, January, 2016)

• 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.