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WI-IAT 2020 Workshop

The 5th International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2020)

Despite the progress of traditional social science, modern social science is facing a serious paradigm shift due to the development of computer and Internet technologies. Human behavior and social phenomena is possible to be quantified by big data digitall y tracing online activities and mobility records at a granular level. In some cases, big data can be analyzed using technologies evolving in the natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology. Experimental data and multiple results from theoreti cal and computational simulations complement them. Both theoretically and analyticall y grounded insights may open new doors of computational social sciences. From this pe rspective, we hold a series of annual workshops on application of big data for comput ational social science for several years. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, big data applications, big data collection and use, an integrated fra mework for theory, simulation, statistics, and experiments.

DATE & PLACE

December 10-13, 2020. (Melbourne, Australia) December 14-17, 2020. (virtual conference)
In conjunction with the 2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT ’20)
Our workshop will be held on December 14.

RESEARCH TOPICS

• Application of Sociology/Sociophysics using Big Data
• Application of Econometric/Econophysics using Big Data
• Social Media Data analyses from economic/political/social perspective
• Informatics using social Big Data
• Marketing science using social Big Data
• Business analytics using Big Data on consumer behavior
• Culturomics and art management
• Analysis of reputation of entertainment using Big Data

PROGRAM (December 14, 2020)

Each paper has 15 minute presentation and 5 minutes for Questioning and Answering.
Our workshop will be held in Room 2.
https://zoom.us/j/9109287030 (passcode: 008436)

Session 1: Chair: Hiroki Takikawa (11:00-12:00 AEDT / 9:00-10:00 JST)

• Opening (Fujio Toriumi)
• Data Augmentation of High Frequency Financial Data Using Generative Adversarial Network (Yusuke Naritomi and Takanori Adachi)
• A Coalition Formation Framework for Platform Cooperatives of Smallholder Farmers (Samriddhi Sarkar, Mariana Curado Malta, and Animesh Dutta)
• Cross-national Features: Network Analysis of Attitudes Towards Immigrants (Rachael Kei Kawasaki and Yuichi Ikeda)

Lunch break (12:00-13:00 AEDT / 10:00-11:00 JST)

Session 2: Chair: Isamu Okada (13:00-14:00 AEDT / 11:00-12:00 JST)

• The toilet paper issue during the COVID-19 crisis (Taiga Abe, Daisuke Higashi, Daiki Nishiyama, Fujio Toriumi, Serge Galam, and Akira Ishii)
• Sociophysics approach of simulation of diffusion of innovations using new opinion dynamics (Makoto Fujii and Akira Ishii)
• Social simulation of a divided society using opinion dynamics (Akira Ishii and Nozomi Okano)
• Closing and Remark (Akira Ishii)

ACCEPTED PAPERS

The 7 papers will be presented in our workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. (The 1 paper was withdrawn.)

• A Coalition Formation Framework for Platform Cooperatives of Smallholder Farmers (Samriddhi Sarkar, Mariana Curado Malta, and Animesh Dutta)
• Cross-national Features: Network Analysis of Attitudes Towards Immigrants (Rachael Kei Kawasaki and Yuichi Ikeda)
• Data Augmentation of High Frequency Financial Data Using Generative Adversarial Network (Yusuke Naritomi and Takanori Adachi)
• Social simulation of a divided society using opinion dynamics (Akira Ishii and Nozomi Okano)
• Sociophysics approach of simulation of diffusion of innovations using new opinion dynamics (Makoto Fujii and Akira Ishii)
• The toilet paper issue during the COVID-19 crisis (Taiga Abe, Daisuke Higashi, Daiki Nishiyama, Fujio Toriumi, Serge Galam, and Akira Ishii)

IMPORTANT DATES

Schedule details have already been sent to the author from the workshop chair.

SUBMISSION

We accept papers of up to 8 pages. Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated by the Program Committee Members of our workshop.
– Paper Submission Page
Submitted papers should be formatted to the IEEE conference proceedings format (see link to below).
– IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings

All registered papers that presented in this workshop will be submitted to IEEE Xplore with main conference papers, and will be submitted into some indexing system such as Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and others.

Main Chairs

• Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Informatics
• Akira Ishii, Tottori University, Social Physics
• Isamu Okada, Soka University, Informatics
• Hiroki Takikawa, Tohoku University, Sociology
• Mitsuo Yoshida, Toyohashi University of Technology, Informatics

Drop us an email at abcss2020 [at] ss.cs.tut.ac.jp if you have any questions.

Program Committee Members

• Yasuko Kawahata, Rikkyo University
• Satoshi Kurihara, Keio University
• Takayuki Mizuno, National Institute of Informatics
• Karuna Pande Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Takuto Sakamoto, The University of Tokyo
• Kazutoshi Sasahara, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Yoshimichi Sato, Tohoku University / Kyoto University of Advanced Science
• Yoshihiko Suhara, Megagon Labs
• Masanori Takano, CyberAgent, Inc.
• Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics
• Shinichi Yamaguchi, GLOCOM
• Hitoshi Yamamoto, Rissho University

Past Workshops

• 2019 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• 2018 (Seattle, WA, USA)
• 2017 (Boston, MA, USA)
• 2016 (Washington D.C., USA)