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Hierarchy and the power-law income distribution tail
What explains the power-law distribution of top incomes? This paper tests the hypothesis that it is firm hierarchy that creates the power-law income...
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Who sets the cyber agenda? Intermedia agenda-setting online: the case of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations
Since the early introduction of the notion of agenda-setting, researchers have attempted to determine the factors that shape media agendas. One of...
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The rise of Jihadist propaganda on social networks
Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS sympathizers, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to...
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Asocial balance—how your friends determine your enemies: understanding the co-evolution of friendship and enmity interactions in a virtual world
Social interactions take place simultaneously through different interaction types, such as communication, friendship, trade, exchange, enmity,...
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Evolving activity cascades on socio-technological networks
Networks are the substrate on which social contagion propagates, from the growth of social movements to the adoption of innovations. In the complex...
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Roadmap and research issues of multiagent social simulation using high-performance computing
In this article, we present roadmaps and research issues pertaining to multiagent social simulation to illustrate the directions of technological...
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Cognitive perspectives on opinion dynamics: the role of knowledge in consensus formation, opinion divergence, and group polarization
Two phenomena that are central to simulation research on opinion dynamics are opinion divergence—the result that individuals interacting in a group...
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Big data in social and psychological science: theoretical and methodological issues
Big data presents unprecedented opportunities to understand human behavior on a large scale. It has been increasingly used in social and...
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Fighting fake news: a role for computational social science in the fight against digital misinformation
The massive, uncontrolled, and oftentimes systematic spread of inaccurate and misleading information on the Web and social media poses a major risk...
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Survey of evolutionary computation methods in social agent-based modeling studies
Agent-based modeling is a well-established discipline today with a rich and vibrant research community. The field of evolutionary computation (EC) is...
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An AI-based approach to auto-analyzing historical handwritten business documents:
Matching salient points is a key step in visual tasks. However, many of the existing feature representation methods that are widely applied to these...
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Network models of financial systemic risk: a review
The global financial system can be represented as a large complex network in which banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions are...
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Analytical sociology and computational social science
Analytical sociology focuses on social interactions among individuals and the hard-to-predict aggregate outcomes they bring about. It seeks to...
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Computational social scientist beware: Simpson’s paradox in behavioral data
Observational data about human behavior are often heterogeneous, i.e., generated by subgroups within the population under study that vary in size and...
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From neuroscience to computer science: a topical approach on Twitter
Twitter is perhaps the most influential microblogging service, with 271 million regular users producing approximately 500 million tweets per day....
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Language, demographics, emotions, and the structure of online social networks
Social networks affect individuals’ economic opportunities and well-being. However, few of the factors thought to shape networks—culture, language,...
