Data-Driven Computational Social Science: A Survey

Social science. Computational social science.

Computational Social Science Track

For the second time, the #Microposts workshop features a track to highlight social science perspectives on micro communication structures in online environments. This paper introduces the #Microposts2016 (Computational) Social Science Track, which all contribute to connecting research methods and approaches in computer science and social science. By providing a forum for closer interaction betw...

Data Management in Dynamic Environment-driven Computational Science

Advances in numerical modeling, computational hardware, and problem solving environments have driven the growth of computational science over the past decades. Science gateways, based on service oriented architectures and scientific workflows, provide yet another step in democratizing access to advanced numerical and scientific tools, computational resource and massive data storage, and fosteri...

Computational Social Science: Toward a Collaborative Future∗

Fifteen years ago, as an undergraduate computer science student in the UK, I read a popular science article (Matthews, 1999) profiling the research of my now colleague, Duncan Watts. This article, about the science of small-world networks, changed my life. To understand why, though, it’s necessary to know that in the UK, there is (or at least was during the 1980s and 1990s) a profound ”them-ver...

Computational Social Science: Agent-based social simulation

versus Descriptive. Models can vary in the degree to which they attempt to incorporate the detail of particular targets. An example of a model which aims to be a detailed representation of a specific location and the developments there is the work by Dean et al. (1999) on the Long House Valley, in northern Arizona near Monument Valley. The model covers a time from about A.D. 400 to 1400 and con...