Contrary to the structural aspect of conventional social network analysis, a new method in behavioral analysis is proposed. We define behavioral measures including self-loops and multiple links and illustrate the behavioral analysis with the networks of Wikipedia editing. Behavioral social network analysis provides an explanation of human behavior that may be further extended to the explanation...

Social credit assignment is a process of social judgment whereby one singles out individuals to blame or credit for multi-agent activities. Such judgments are a key aspect of social intelligence and underlie social planning, social learning, natural language pragmatics and computational models of emotion. Based on psychological attribution theory, this paper presents a preliminary computational...

AIM Assessing social competence is important for clinical and preventive interventions of depression. The aim of the present paper was to examine the factor structure of the Japanese Interpersonal Competence Scale (JICS). METHODS Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the survey responses of 730 participants. Simultaneous multigroup analyses were conducted to confirm fa...

The field of social psychology explores how a person behaves within the context of other people. The social context can play a substantive role in non-market allocation decisions given peoples choices and values extend beyond the classic market-based exchange institution. Herein we explore how social psychology has affected one aspect of environmental economics: preference elicitation through s...

In this paper, we extend the classical BDI architecture for the treatment of social commitments based communication by: (1) linking social commitments and individual intentions, (2) providing a model of the cognitive aspect of communication pragmatics in order to automatize social commitment based communication. In particular, we introduce a general decision-making process leading to attitude c...

Preserving privacy while publishing social network data has become a serious issue with the rapid growth of Social Networks. In this work, we propose a perturbation based approach for privacy preserving publication of social network graphs and evaluate the utility aspect of our proposed method using real world dataset.

The distinctive feature of social commerce is its focus on supporting the social aspect of an online shopping experience. Social commerce websites are designed to be online shopping communities, examples including Pinterest and Kaboodle in the US, and Mogujie, Meilishuo, and Taojianghu in China. Social commerce websites offer many unique features to facilitate online social interactions, such a...

Social tags offer a novel aspect to study learning resources, its metadata and how users interact with them. The key theme in this research is to understand the central role of social tagging for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), more specifically, for digital learning resources in a multilingual context. The main hypothesis is that the self-organisation aspect of a social tagging system on a...

Social Network Analysis is an approach to analysing organisations focusing on relationships as the most important aspect. In this paper we discuss visualisation techniques for Social Network Analysis, including spring-embedding and simulated annealing techniques. We introduce a visualisation technique based on Kohonen neural networks, and also introduce social flow diagrams for demonstrating th...