Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems

Paul K. Davis , Angela O'Mahony , Jonathan Pfautz 지음

Wiley 2019년 04월 03일 출간

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This volume describes frontiers in social-behavioral modeling for contexts as diverse as national security, health, and on-line social gaming. Recent scientific and technological advances have created exciting opportunities for such improvements. However, the book also identifies crucial scientific, ethical, and cultural challenges to be met if social-behavioral modeling is to achieve its potential. Doing so will require new methods, data sources, and technology. The volume discusses these, including those needed to achieve and maintain high standards of ethics and privacy. The result should be a new generation of modeling that will advance science and, separately, aid decision-making on major social and security-related subjects despite the myriad uncertainties and complexities of social phenomena. Intended to be relatively comprehensive in scope, the volume balances theory-driven, data-driven, and hybrid approaches. The latter may be rapidly iterative, as when artificial-intelligence methods are coupled with theory-driven insights to build models that are sound, comprehensible and usable in new situations. With the intent of being a milestone document that sketches a research agenda for the next decade, the volume draws on the wisdom, ideas and suggestions of many noted researchers who draw in turn from anthropology, communications, complexity science, computer science, defense planning, economics, engineering, health systems, medicine, neuroscience, physics, political science, psychology, public policy and sociology. In brief, the volume discusses: Cutting-edge challenges and opportunities in modeling for social and behavioral science Special requirements for achieving high standards of privacy and ethics New approaches for developing theory while exploiting both empirical and computational data Issues of reproducibility, communication, explanation, and validation Special requirements for

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Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Part I: Introduction and Agenda Chapter 1: Understanding and Improving the Human Condition: A Vision of the Future for Social- Behavioral ModelingJonathan Pfautz, Paul K. Davis, and Angela O’Mahony Chapter 2: Improving Social-Behavioral ModelingPaul K. Davis and Angela O’Mahony Chapter 3: Ethical and Privacy Issues in Social-Behavioral ResearchRebecca Balebako, Angela O’Mahony, Paul K. Davis and Osonde Osoba Part II: Social-Behavioral Science Foundations Chapter 4: Building on Social Science: Theoretic Foundations for ModelersBenjamin Nyblade, Angela O’Mahony and Katharine Sieck Chapter 5: How Big and How Certain? A New Approach to Defining Levels of Analysis for Modeling Social Science TopicsMatthew E. Brashears Chapter 6: Toward Generative Narrative Models of the Course and Resolution of ConflictSteven R. Corman, Scott W. Ruston and Hanghang Tong Chapter 7: A Neural Network Model of Motivated Decision-making in Everyday Social BehaviorStephen J. Read and Lynn C. Miller Chapter 8: Dealing with Culture as Inherited InformationLuke J. Matthews Chapter 9: Social Media, Global Connections, and Information Environments: Building Complex Understandings of Multi-Actor InteractionsGene Cowherd and Daniel Lende Chapter 10: Using Neuroimaging to Predict Behavior: An overview with a Focus on the Moderating Role of Sociocultural ContextSteven H. Tompson, Emily B. Falk, Danielle S. Bassett, and Jean M. Vettel Chapter 11. Social Models from Non-Human SystemsTheodore P. Pavlic Chapter 12: Moving Social-Behavioral Modeling Forward: Insights from Social ScientistsKatharine Sieck, Mel Konner, Christian Madsbjerg, Matthew Brashears, and Laura McNamara

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저자(글) Paul K. Davis

Paul K. Davis, PhD, is a senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Angela O'Mahony, PhD, is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Jonathan Pfautz, PhD, is a Program Manager at DARPA.

저자(글) Angela O'Mahony

저자(글) Jonathan Pfautz