Title
Learning a Macroscopic Model of Cultural Dynamics
Abstract
A fundamental open question that has been studied by sociologists since the 70s and recently started being addressed by the computer-science community is the understanding of the role that influence and selection play in shaping the evolution of socio-cultural systems. Quantifying these forces in real settings is still a big challenge, especially in the large-scale case in which the entire social network between the users may not be known, and only longitudinal data in terms of masses of cultural groups (e.g., political affiliation, product adoption, market share, cultural tastes) may be available. We propose an influence and selection model encompassing an explicit characterization of the feature space for the different cultural groups in the form of a natural equation-based macroscopic model, following the approach of Kempe et al. [EC 2013]. Our main goal is to estimate edge influence strengths and selection parameters from an observed time series. To do an experimental evaluation on real data, we perform learning on real datasets from Last. FM and Wikipedia.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICDM.2015.126
IEEE International Conference on DataMining
Keywords
Field
DocType
cultural dynamics
Data modeling,Macroscopic model,Data mining,Feature vector,Cultural group selection,Social network,Computer science,Cultural diversity,Artificial intelligence,Market share,Politics,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-4786
1
0.35
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aris Anagnostopoulos1105467.08
Mara Sorella253.13