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DAY 1, Friday, November 11, 2016
Venue: Old Chatham Ballroom III
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Opening Ceremony
Paul Wang, Guandong Xu, and Shu-Heng Chen
9:15-9:50 Keynote 1: Economic Systems as Constructively Rational Games: Oh, the Places We Could Go!
Speaker: Prof. Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University
Chair: William Lawless
9:50-10:25 Keynote 2: A von Neumann Operator for Exact Analytical Calculus of Hybrid Functions in Complex Systems
Speaker: Prof. Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University
Chair: William Lawless
10:25-10:45 Break
Session: Social Computing and Applications (SCA-1)
Session chair: Koraljka Golub
10:45-12:15 - Mohd Anwar, Wu He and Xiaohong Yuan. Employment Status and Cybersecurity Behaviors
- Jianbo Gao, Scaling Laws Governing the Complexity of Global Political Event Evolutions
- Chris Kuhlman, Gizem Korkmaz and Fernando Vega-Redondo. Can Social Contagion Spread Without Key Players?
- Somayyeh Aghababaei and Masoud Makrehchi. Interpolative Self-training Approach for Sentiment Analysis
12:15-13:30 Lunch
Session: Behavioral and Economic Computing (BEC)
Session chair: Chris Kuhlman
13:30-15:00 - Hongwei Yin, Research on Influence of Chinese Urbanization on Hotel Industry Development
- Jie Zhang, Lin Li, Ge Zhu, Xiangfu Meng and Qing Xie. A Comparison Study of Semi-supervised SVM Algorithms for Small Business Credit Prediction
- German Creamer. Trading Network and Systemic Risk in the Energy Market
- Charles Chu, Guandong Xu, James Brownlow, Bin Fu. Churn Prediction Deployment in Financial Services Industry
Session: Industrial Applications (IA) and Digital Humanities (DH-1)
Session chair: Jianbo Gao
15:00-16:30 - Jianbo Gao. A multiscale theory for sentiment variation in novels
- Yuan Sun, Shiwei Ye, Guiping Su, Yi Sun, Q-matrix Learning and DINA Model Parameter Estimation
- Raul Manongdo and Guandong Xu. Applying client churn prediction modelling on home-based care services industry
- Cheng Chen. Learning Text to Model: A Bayesian Network based L-system Modeling Strategy
16:30-16:50 Break
16:50-17:25 Keynote 3: "Too Big to Fail?" - Intellectual Property Protection of Big Data
Speaker: Susan Freya Olive, Olive and Olive
Chair: Paul Wang
19:10-21:00 Conference Banquet
Speaker: Sam Wang, Synchrony Financial
Chair: Shu-Heng Chen
DAY 2, Saturday, November 12, 2016
Venue: Old Chatham Ballroom III
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:10 Keynote 4: Learning to Coordinate: Experiments with Artificial and Real Agent
Speaker: Prof. John Duffy, University of California at Irvine
Chair: William Rand
10:10-10:30 Break
Session: Social Computing and Applications (SCA-2)
Session chair: German Creamer
10:30-12:00 - Naiyue Chen, Yun Liu, Junjun Cheng and Qing Liu. Parallelizing Label Propagation for Overlapping Community Detection
- Yu Liu, Bin Wu, Yunlei Zhang and Bai Wang. Overlapping Community Detection via Self-constrained Symmetric Non-negative Matrix Factorization
- Min Gu and Yanhui Gu. Research on Interpretation of Norminal Compound
- Hao Chen, Yinghong Dong and Kaisheng Lai. Revisit Hemline Index Theory: Forecasting Daily Trading of Short Skirts by Stock Market in China
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Session: Information Management and Systems (IMS-1)
Session chair: Mohd Anwar
13:30-15:00 - Lu Zhang, Zhan Bu, Zhiang Wu and Jie Cao. DGWC: Distributed and Generic Web Crawler for Online Information Extraction
- Zhiyuan Zhang, Yun Liu, Haiqiang Chen and Qing Liu. POI Recommendation with Geographical and MultiTag Influences
- Jiao Xue, Takao Terano, Hiroshi Deguchi and Manabu Ichikawa. Simulation Analysis of Immunization Policy Diffusion in Social Network with ABM Approach
- Yaxin Hou, Cong Ma and Yidong Li. Research on Fire Risk Factors of Cotton in Railway Transportation
Session: Digital Humanities (DH-2)
Session chair: Changxiu Cheng
15:00-16:30 - Changxiu Cheng, Nikita Murzintcev Event-related information retrieval from social media
- Aihua Jiang and Jianbo Gao. Fractal analysis of complex power load variations through adaptive multiscale filting
- Koraljka Golub and Marcelo Milrad. Digital Humanities as a Cross-Sector and Cross-Discipline Initiative: Prospects in the Linnaeus University Region
- Shi Shen, Changxiu Cheng, Kai Su, Jing Yang and Shanli Yang. Quantitative Visualization about Differences between Scientists concerned Nature Disasters and Historic Events
16:30-16:50 Break
16:50-17:25 Keynote 6: Why Bother with the Brain? The Promise and Challenge of Neuroeconomics
Speaker: Prof. Scott Huettel, Duke University
Chair: Andreas Pape
17:25-18:00 Keynote 7: The Sea Battle Tomorrow: The Identity of Reflexive Economic Agents
Prof. John Davis, Marquette University
Chair: Andreas Pape
DAY 3, Sunday, November 13, 2016
Venue: Old Chatham Ballroom II
9:00-9:35 Keynote 8: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Uncovering Novel Opportunities of Data Science
Speaker: Prof. Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Chair: Guandong Xu
9:35-10:10 Keynote 9: Is Agent Computing the New Calculus for Social Interactions?
Speaker: Prof. Robert Axtell, George Mason University
Chair: Guandong Xu
10:10-10:30 Break
Session: Social Computing and Applications (SCA-3)
Session chair: Wu He
10:30-12:00 - Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi. Interactive Exploration and Understanding of Contagion Dynamics in Networked Populations
- Zhicheng Liu, Jinbin Yu, Weiting Xiong, Jian Lu, Junyan Yang and Qiao Wang. Using Mobile Phone Data to Explore Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Home-Based Daily Mobility Patterns in Shanghai
- Frank Jiang, Jin Gan and Guandong Xu. Coupled Behavioral Analysis for User Preference-based Email Spamming
- Yanhui Gu and Min Gu. Human motion retargeting with trajectory constraints
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Session: Information Management and Systems (IMS-2)
Session chair: I-Hsien Ting
13:30-15:00 - Jiancheng Shen, Feng Dong and Wu He. Using Media-Based Emotion to Predict Commodity Price
- Qian Li, Wei Cao and Zhenglu Yang. An Effective System for Managing Tail-Anchored Protein Data
- Min Gu and Yanhui Gu. Towards Effective Web Page Classification
- Somayyeh Aghababaei, Eren Gultepe, Masoud Makrehchi and Iuliia Chepurna. Activity-Based Sampling of Twitter Users for Temporal Prediction Models
15:00-15:10 Break
Session: User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics (UMPE)
Session chair: Frank Jiang
15:1-16:40 - Aastha Nigam, Salvador Aguinaga and Nitesh V. Chawla. Connecting the Dots to Infer Followers' Topical Interest on Twitter
- Anand Chinchore, Guandong Xu and Frank Jiang. Classifying Sybil in MSNs using C4.5
- Yidong Li, Shugeng Ding, Jianhui Zhang, Liang Chen, Zhen Wang and Qunqun Xu. An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Ranked Fuzzy Keywords Search over Encrypted Cloud Data
- Peng Bian, Luyue Jiang, Yi Jin and Yidong Li. Coupled Feature Spaces Learning with Joint Graph Regularization for Person Re-identification