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2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Access: news and blog analysis for the social sciences
The social sciences strive to understand the political, social, and cultural world around us, but have been impaired by limited access to the quantitative data sources enjoyed by ...
Mikhail Bautin, Charles B. Ward, Akshay Patil, Ste...
ETS
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Law On-Line: A Collaborative, Web-Based Journey in the Law and Social Sciences
During Spring 1998, we embarked on pedagogical journey into unknown terrains -- the terrains of collaborative teaching and World Wide Web instruction. In this paper we present a j...
Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh
CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Network properties and social sharing of emotions in social awareness streams
The relationship between social sharing of emotions, social networks and social ties is an ongoing topic of research. Such sharing of emotions occurs frequently in “social aware...
Funda Kivran-Swaine, Mor Naaman
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent-based simulation of the spatial dynamics of crime: on the interplay between criminal hot spots and reputation
An important challenge within the field of Criminology is to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of crime. Typical questions in this area are how the behaviour of offenders, ...
Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen
EXPERT
2007
108views more  EXPERT 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Cognitive Social Simulation Incorporating Cognitive Architectures
Agent-based social simulation (with multi-agent systems), which is an important aspect of social computing, can benefit from incorporating cognitive architectures, as they provid...
Ron Sun