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WI-IAT 2021 Workshop

The 6th International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2021)

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 digitally 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 theoretical and computational simulations complement them. Both theoretically and analytically grounded insights may open new doors of computational social sciences. From this perspective, we hold a series of annual workshops on application of big data for computational 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 framework for theory, simulation, statistics, and experiments.

DATE & PLACE

December 14-17, 2021. (Melbourne, Australia)
In conjunction with the 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT ’21)
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, 2021)

Each paper has 15 minute presentation and 5 minutes for Questioning and Answering.
Our workshop will be held in Room 3.
https://zoom.us/j/9109287030 (passcode: 654321)
(Check the WI-IAT 2021 conference program for details. There is zoom information at the bottom.)

Session 1: Chair: Isamu Okada (18:00-19:20 AEDT / 16:00-17:20 JST)

• Opening (Fujio Toriumi)
• Proposal for a Mathematical Model of the Hit Phenomenon Using Cumulative Values of Data (Shunsuke Hatadani)
• Seamless Simulations of Earthquake Disasters and Economy at 1:1 scale Utilizing Big-data (Amit Gill, Maddegedara Lalith, Yoshiki Ogawa, Hideyuki O-tani, Tsuyoshi Ichimura, Kohei Fujita, Filippo Gatti, and Muneo Hori)
• Does Activeness Originate in Individuals or Groups? Analysis of the Interrelationships between Network Indices and Posts Using Multilevel Cross-Lagged Model (Kenta Tsukatsune, Tatsuya Konishi, Yuto Mizutani, Mori Kurokawa, Shuichiro Haruta, and Tomoaki Saito)
• Analyzing Vaccination Priority Judgments for 132 Occupations Using Word Vector Models (Atsushi Ueshima and Hiroki Takikawa)

Lunch break (19:20-19:40 AEDT / 17:20-17:40 JST)

Session 2: Chair: Hiroki Takikawa (19:40-21:00 AEDT / 17:40-19:00 JST)

• Characterizing the Anti-Vaxxers’ Reply Behavior on Social Media (Kunihiro Miyazaki, Takayuki Uchiba, Kenji Tanaka, and Kazutoshi Sasahara)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Discusssion: Evidence from Twitter data using Text Mining (Johannes Schneider, Gramoz Sejfijaj, and Jan vom Brocke)
• A Study on Emotional Analysis Focusing on Onomatopoeia Used on SNS for the COVID-19 (Takuro Okada, Fujio Toriumi, and Maki Sakamoto)
• Prediction of Nikkei VI increase for reducing investment risk using Yahoo! JAPAN stock BBS (Kentaro Ueda, Kodai Sasaki, Hirohiko Suwa, Yuki Ogawa, Eiichi Umehara, Tatsuo Yamashita, Kota Tsubouchi, and Keiichi Yasumoto)
• Closing and Remark (Akira Ishii)

ACCEPTED PAPERS

The 8 papers will be presented in our workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions.

• Analyzing Vaccination Priority Judgments for 132 Occupations Using Word Vector Models (Atsushi Ueshima and Hiroki Takikawa)
• Characterizing the Anti-Vaxxers’ Reply Behavior on Social Media (Kunihiro Miyazaki, Takayuki Uchiba, Kenji Tanaka, and Kazutoshi Sasahara)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Discusssion: Evidence from Twitter data using Text Mining (Johannes Schneider, Gramoz Sejfijaj, and Jan vom Brocke)
• Proposal for a Mathematical Model of the Hit Phenomenon Using Cumulative Values of Data (Shunsuke Hatadani)
• Seamless Simulations of Earthquake Disasters and Economy at 1:1 scale Utilizing Big-data (Amit Gill, Maddegedara Lalith, Yoshiki Ogawa, Hideyuki O-tani, Tsuyoshi Ichimura, Kohei Fujita, Filippo Gatti, and Muneo Hori)
• A Study on Emotional Analysis Focusing on Onomatopoeia Used on SNS for the COVID-19 (Takuro Okada, Fujio Toriumi, and Maki Sakamoto)
• Does Activeness Originate in Individuals or Groups? Analysis of the Interrelationships between Network Indices and Posts Using Multilevel Cross-Lagged Model (Kenta Tsukatsune, Tatsuya Konishi, Yuto Mizutani, Mori Kurokawa, Shuichiro Haruta, and Tomoaki Saito)
• Prediction of Nikkei VI increase for reducing investment risk using Yahoo! JAPAN stock BBS (Kentaro Ueda, Kodai Sasaki, Hirohiko Suwa, Yuki Ogawa, Eiichi Umehara, Tatsuo Yamashita, Kota Tsubouchi, and Keiichi Yasumoto)

IMPORTANT DATES

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 ACM conference proceedings format (see link to below).
– ACM Primary Article Template

All registered papers that presented in this workshop will be submitted to ACM Digital Library 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, University of Tsukuba, Informatics

Drop us an email at abcss2021 [at] ss.cs.tut.ac.jp if you have any questions.

Program Committee Members

• Kimitaka Asatani, The University of Tokyo
• Xiaojie Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Yasuko Kawahata, Rikkyo University
• Teruyoshi Kobayashi, Kobe University
• Satoshi Kurihara, Keio University
• Takayuki Mizuno, National Institute of Informatics
• Kazutoshi Sasahara, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Yoshihiko Suhara, Megagon Labs
• Hirohiko Suwa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• Masanori Takano, CyberAgent, Inc.
• Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics
• Shinichi Yamaguchi, GLOCOM
• Hitoshi Yamamoto, Rissho University

Past Workshops

• 2020 (virtual conference)
• 2019 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• 2018 (Seattle, WA, USA)
• 2017 (Boston, MA, USA)
• 2016 (Washington D.C., USA)