We consider the effects of social learning on the individual learning and genetic evolution of a colony of artificial agents capable of genetic, individual and social modes of adaptation. We confirm that there is strong selection pressure to acquire...
This paper studies the extent to which social capital drives performance in the Chinese venture capital market and explores the trend toward VC syndication in China. First, we propose a hybrid model based on syndicated social networks and the latent-...
A god-simulation sandbox game built on Godot 4 as a multi-agent AI social simulation system. In this virtual world, AI characters possess independent thinking and memory, capable of autonomous social interactions, task completion, and developing complex social…
In this position paper we intend to advocate for participatory design methods and mobile social matching apps as ripe contexts for exploring novel human-AI interactions that benefit marginalized groups. Mobile social matching apps like Tinder and Bum...
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I've seen a local 'Round Table's social club promoted on Facebook. It looks appealing. A social club for men aged 18 to 44. Mainly 30 years old from the photos. The whole concept seems a little odd. T...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) provide a venue for virtual interactions and relationships between individuals. In some communities, OSNs also facilitate arranging online meetings and relationships. FetLife, the worlds largest anonymous social network...
Social issues are distinguished from economic issues; however, some issues (such as immigration) have both social and economic aspects. Some issues do not
Corruption is a social plague: gains accrue to small groups, while its costs are borne by everyone. Significant variation in its level between and within countries suggests a relationship between social structure and the prevalence of corruption, yet...
Social reproduction describes the reproduction of social structures and systems, mainly on the basis of particular preconditions in demographics, education
The social recommender system that supports the creation of new relations between users in the multimedia sharing system is presented in the paper. To generate suggestions the new concept of the multirelational social network was introduced. It cover...
La Administración del Seguro Social (SSA, siglas en inglés) anuncia que más de 100 millones de personas de los EE. UU. han creado cuentas personales de my Social Security.
Social science (or the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within
A society (/sə.ˈsaɪ.ə.ti/) is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social
The structure of close communication, contacts and association in social networks is studied in the form of maximal subgraphs of diameter 2 (2-clubs), corresponding to three types of close communities: hamlets, social circles and coteries. The concep...
A probabilistic approach to the epidemic evolution on realistic social-contact networks allows for characteristic differences among subjects, including the individual number and structure of social contacts, and the heterogeneity of the infection and...
We develop a novel framework that aims to create bridges between the computational social choice and the database management communities. This framework enriches the tasks currently supported in computational social choice with relational database co...
The aim of this paper consists in the application of a recent epidemiological model, namely SEIR with Social Distancing (SEIR--SD), extended here through the definition of a social distancing function varying over time, to assess the situation relate...
Social contact studies, investigating social contact patterns in a population sample, have been an important contribution for epidemic models to better fit real life epidemics. A contact matrix $M$, having the \emph{mean} number of contacts between i...
Many online social networks allow directed edges: Alice can unilaterally add an "edge" to Bob, typically indicating interest in Bob or Bob's content, without Bob's permission or reciprocation. In directed social networks we observe the rise of two di...