Computational Social Science

Education systems are webs of interconnected students, teachers, programs, institutions, and decisions. This chapter argues that a …

Collective memory can be quantified through the collective attention received by cultural icons, artifacts, people, scientific ideas, …

This chapter introduces computational social science as a data-driven framework for studying how collective memory forms, persists, and …

Abstract: [ENG] The unprecedented growth in social media use and large-scale information collection pose new threats, but also offer new opportunities. Modeling and managing complex interactive systems requires the analysis of social and technological signals to gain new insights into human society and individual behavior.

Abstract: [ENG] We discuss two projects that quantify the consequences of our network location for our access to resources and rewards in science. First, we investigate the dynamics of international science through the lens of national citation preferences, introducing a novel measure to characterize these processes and enabling a network analysis of global knowledge production.

La Convergencia de las Ciencias Físicas y Sociales: Una Entrevista con el Dr. Cristian Candia En una entrevista reciente, Carla Hermann, Ph.D., la anfitriona del programa Let’s Get Physical, se sentó con el Dr.

Abstract: [ENG] This study seeks to understand how recommender systems can help individuals assemble functionally diverse teams. We run a 2x2 between-subject laboratory experiment with 384 participants to test the effect of a recommender system's algorithms on individuals' teaming experience, team processes, and team performance.

Abstract: [ENG] It is well known that social networks fundamentally impact the dynamic processes of the populations they support. Examples include epidemic outbreaks, the diffusion of innovations, opinion formation, and behavioral evolution.

Abstract: [ENG] Algorithmic matching is a pervasive mechanism in our social and economic lives, used for example in algorithmic job search engines, kidney transplant allocation algorithms, medical residency program allocation, and search engines for finding romantic partners and potential spouses.

This preprint models collective memory as a two-step decay process in which short-lived communicative memory and long-lived cultural …