| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:15 | Welcome from the Chairs |
| 9:30 | Keynote: Francesco Bullo, UC Santa Barbara (Chair: Yanbing Mao) Title: On the Mathematics of Wisdom of Crowds and Social Influence |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Paper Session I: Belief/Opinion Dynamics (Chair: Shengzhong Liu) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Arsal Imtiaz, Danish Khan, Hanjia Lyu and Jiebo Luo. Taking sides: Public Opinion over the Israel-Palestine Conflict in 2021. |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Siyi Guo, Keith Burghardt, Ashwin Rao and Kristina Lerman. Emotion Regulation and Dynamics of Moral Concerns During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic. |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Brodie Mather, Ian Perera, Vera Kazakova, Daniel Capecci, Muskan Garg, Damon Woodward and Bonnie J. Dorr. Vision: Explainable Hidden Mental States as Influence Indicators. |
| 11:45 | General Discussion on Paper Session I |
| 12:00 | Panel I: Modeling Social Info-Dynamics: A Research Roadmap o Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois (Moderator) o Jean-Luc Cambier, Office of the Secretary of Defense o Mark Finlayson, Florida International University o Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania o Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Paper Session II: Social Information Mining & Operations (Chair: Yanbing Mao) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Yichi Qian, Qiyi Shan, Hanjia Lyu and Jiebo Luo. Look behind the Censorship: Reposting-User Characterization and Muted-Topic Restoration. |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Mei Fukuda, Kazuyuki Shudo and Hiroki Sayama. Detecting and Forecasting Local Collective Sentiment Using Emojis. |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Patrick Pho and Alexander V. Mantzaris. Exploring the Regularized SGC in Application to Social Network Data. |
| 14:45 | General Discussion on Paper Session II |
| 15:00 | Panel II: Social and Cognitive Basis for Information Dynamics o Ivan Garibay, University of Central Florida (Moderator) o Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University o Brian Kettler, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency o Michael Macy, Cornell University o Bart Russell, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:30 | General Discussion: Mapping the Future Research Agenda |
| 17:30 | Wrap Up |