Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2024, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, during September 1820, 2024.

The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions.

They are grouped into the following topics: advancements in tools and theory; data-driven approaches.

Inhalt

.- Advancements in Tools and Theory.

.- Explicit Stance Detection in the Political Domain: A New Concept and Associated Dataset for Model Development.

.- Multimodal LLMs Struggle with Basic Visual Network Analysis: a VNA Benchmark.

.- Tiny-BotBuster: Identifying Automated Political Coordination in Digital Campaigns.

.- SAARTHI: Smart Auto Assessment and Roadside Technical Help Interface.

.- Comparing Similarity and Homophily-Based Cognitive Models of Influence and Conformity.

.- Developing Epidemiological Models with Differentiated Infected Intensity.

.- VSM-ACT-R: Toward Using Cognitive Architecture For Manufacturing Solutions.

.- User-donated screenshots analysis: feasibility of a new approach to collect objective social media app usage in adolescents.

.- Extending VRAT: from 3D eye tracking visualization to enabling ACT-R to interact with virtual reality environments.

.- A Tool for Distributed Collaborative Causal Discovery.

.- A Cognitive Slack Approach to Organizational Design.

.- Data-Driven Approaches.

.- Moderating Democratic Discourse with LLMs.

.- Deciphering Emotional and Linguistic Patterns in Reddit Suicidal Discourse.

.- Extractive Question Answering for Spanish and Arabic Political Text.

.- Accountability in Search Engine Manipulation: A Case Study of the Iranian News Ecosystem.

.- Analyzing and Predicting Meetup Mobs Outcome Via Statistical Analysis and Deep Learning.

.- Drivers of True and False Information Spread: A Causal Study of User Sharing Behaviors.

.- Examining Socio-Economic Isolation in Urban Spaces.

.- Ablation Studies in Protest Networks: The Role of Influential Agents in Shaping Protests.

.- Unveiling Bias in YouTube Shorts: Analyzing Thumbnail Recommendations and Topic Dynamics.

.- Moral and emotional influences on attitude stability towards COVID-19 vaccines on social media.

.- The Life of a Tie: Social Origins of Network Diversity.

.- Integrated Content-Graph Analysis to Characterize Social Media Conversations During Disaster Evacuations.

.- Assessing the Sociocultural Alignment of Large Language Models: An Empirical Study of Chinese-Speaking Populations.