The BRiMS Society and Conference (Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS, brimsconference.org) promotes cross-disciplinary and crossorganizational communication for basic and applied scientific research in the realm of modeling and simulation of human behavior, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on government-related tasks and behavior. Thus, the BRiMS conference ...

Recent sensor technologies have enabled the capture of users’ behavior data. Given the large amount of data currently available from sensor-equipped environments, it is important to attempt characterization of the sensor data for automatically modeling users in a ubiquitous and mobile computing environment. As described herein, we propose a method that predicts a customer model using features b...

This research proposes a predictive modeling framework for Web user behavior with Web usage mining (WUM). The proposed predictive model utilizes sequence-based clustering, in order to group Web users into clusters with similar Web browsing behavior and Markov chains, in order to model Web users’ Web navigation behavior. This research will also provide a performance evaluation framework and sugg...

A key objective of information technology (IT) research is to assess the value of technology for users and to understand the factors that ascertain this value in order to better deploy IT resources. A variety of new models are developed to understand the users’ IT behavior; it seems reasonable to examine if the existing models of users’ behavior will still apply. This paper uses structural equa...

An underlying problem of current interface agent research is the failure to adequately address e ective and e cient knowledge representations and associated methodologies suitable for modeling the users' interactions with the system. These user models lack the representational complexity to manage the uncertainty and dynamics involved in predicting user intent and modeling user behavior. A util...

background: there can be little doubt that the construction is the most hazardous industry in the worldwide. this study was designed to modeling the factors affecting unsafe behavior from the perspective of safety supervisors. methods: the qualitative research was conducted to extract a conceptual model. a structural model was then developed based on a questionnaire survey (n=266) by two stage ...

COMBINING INTENT MODELING and visual user interfaces can help users discover novel information and dramatically improve their information-exploration performance. Current-generation search engines serve billions of requests each day, returning responses to search queries in fractions of a second. They are great tools for checking facts and looking up information for which users can easily creat...

Twitter (and similar microblogging services) has become a central nexus for discussion of the topics of the day. Twitter data contains rich content and structured information on users’ topics of interest and behavior patterns. Correctly analyzing and modeling Twitter data enables the prediction of the user behavior and preference in a variety of practical applications, such as tweet recommendat...