Social Phenomena From Data Analysis to Models /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gonçalves, Bruno (Editor), Perra, Nicola (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences
• Subjects: Physics.; Application software.; Game theory.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Social sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Numerical and Computational Physics.

This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many...

Table of Contents:

• 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.