Social Phenomena: From Data to Models
Forthcoming book by Springer. B. Goncalves, N. Perra editors

The book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years with many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this area of research merging an extremely heterogeneous array of datasets and models. We divide the book in to two parts. The first one deals with modeling social behavior under normal conditions. How we live, travel, collaborate and interact with each other in our daily lives. The second part, deals with societal behavior under exceptional conditions such as protest, armed insurgencies, terroristic attacks, and reactions to infectious diseases. The books offers an overview of one of the most fertile emerging field bringing together practitioners from scientific communities as different as Computer Science, Social Sciences and Physics. The aim is to not only provide an unifying framework to understand and characterize social phenomena, but also to help foster the dialog between researchers working on similar problems from different fields, and prospective.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
B. Gonçalves, N. Perra

Part I – Social Behavior under normal conditions

2. Human mobility 
Y.-A. Montoye, J. Toole, M. Gonzales, S. Pentland

3. Face-to-face interactions 
A. Barrat, C. Cattuto

4. Modeling and predicting human infectious diseases 
B. Gonçalves, N. Perra, A. Vespignani

5. Early Signs of Financial market moves reflected by Google searches 
T. Preis, S. Moat

6. Online interactions 
L. Weng, F. Menczer, A. Flammini

7. The contagion of prosocial behavior and the emergence of voluntary-contribution communities 
M. Tsvetkova, M. Macy

8. Understanding the Scientific enterprise: citation analysis, data, and modelling 
F. Radicchi, C. Castellano


Part II – Social Behavior under stress

 9. Behavioral changes and adaptation induced by epidemics 
P. Poletti, M. Ajelli, S. Merler

10. Uncovering criminal behavior with computational tools
E. Ferrara, G. Fiumara, S. Catanese 

12. Modeling human conflict and terrorism across geographic scales
N. Johnson, E.M. Restrepo, D.E. Johnson

11.  Event-related Crowd Activities on Social Media
Y.-R. Lin

Forthcoming book by Springer. B. Goncalves, N. Perra editors