Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2019 @ WI 2019)

Dear Colleagues,

Contemporary social sciences are facing a serious paradigm shift because of the developments in computer and Internet technologies, though traditional social sciences are still very important. Big data, such as digital traces of online activities and mobility records, allow us to quantify human behavior and social phenomena at a fine-grained level, yet they are global in scale, thereby complementing experimental data and theoretical and computational simulation results. In some cases, we can even employ the methods of natural sciences, including physics, chemistry or biology, in order to analyze big data. From this perspective, we are organizing the workshop ABCSS2019 @ WI2019 of “Applications of Big Data for Computational Social Science”. The scopes of the workshop include the applications of big data, as well as the methods for collecting and using big data for computational social science. Moreover, theoretical frameworks and computational techniques for big data are also very important topics in our workshop. In this workshop, social sciences are not limited to sociology, economics, marketing, and political science but also include informatics, complexity science, econophysics, sociophysics, culturomics, and the arts.

Selected papers which were presented at ABCSS2019@WI2019 are invited to be submitted as extended versions to this Special Issue of the journal Information. The conference paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper; authors are asked to disclose that it is a conference paper in their cover letter and include a statement on what has been changed compared to the original conference paper. Each submission to this journal issue should contain at least 50% of new material, e.g., in the form of technical extensions, more in-depth evaluations, or additional use cases. All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure. Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Information and collected together on this Special Issue website.

Prof. Isamu Okada
Dr. Fujio Toriumi
Dr. Mitsuo Yoshida
Prof. Akira Ishii
Dr. Hiroki Takikawa
Guest Editors

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