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Workshop: Computational Approaches to Social Dynamics
The recent explosion of online big data has allowed us to conduct high-resolution quantitative modeling and analysis of complex human social behaviors. This has completely changed the way of studying collective behaviors of humans in social systems. Conventional approaches that attempted to model human behaviors using mathematically rigorous yet idealized game theoretic frameworks often failed to predict real social dynamics, because humans are often irrational and do not follow well-defined decision making protocols. Big data analytics provides us with more empirical methods and tools to capture and analyze such realistic human behaviors. Read more