MULTIFARIOUS MODELING DISCUSSIONSStable versus flexible dynamic decision making across cultures: A growth mixture modeling approach, C. Güss, P. Fadil and J. Evans, USA, and S. Strohschneider, GermanyCreating the foundations for modeling irregular warfare, D. Hartley and L. Lacy, USAGranular ABM simulations for operational use: Forecasting and what-if experiments with models of Kandahar and Kunduz, B. Alcorn, M. Garces and I. Lustick, USACulture that works, S. Wertheim and M. Agar, USADiscovering entity characteristics and relationships through topic modeling, I. Yohai, B. Riordan, A. Duchon and M. Paley, USAA non-therapeutic, micro-worlds based, application of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to fostering cross-cultural competence, K. Reene, M. Crozier and G. Sarkessian, USAWhat lies beneath: Forecast transparency to foster understanding and trust in forecast models, J. Wedgwood, A. Ruvinsky and T. Siedlecki, USACombining social and environmental models, I. Yohai, R. McCormack, J. Sidman, J. Galantowicz, C. Borden and S. Pritchett, USAVERIFICATION, VALIDATION, AND ASSESSMENTFundamentals in empirical validation of and analysis with social science models, P. Davis, USAAl-Qa'ida through a discursive lens, E. Larson, USACountering the adversary, B. Levey, S. Shellman and P. Bentley, USAInterfacing and validating models of the US Army TRAC tactical war game, D. Duong and C. Bladon, USAMulti-modeling and socio-cultural complexity: Reuse and validation, K. Carley, G. Morgan, M. Lanham and J. Pfeffer, USAA V&V approach for complex models: A use case example, J. Salerno, D. Leedom, J. Wedgewood, B. Schlicher and J. Smith, USAMulti-modeling and meta-modeling of human organizations, A. Levis, A. Zaidi and M. Rafi, USAVerification as a form of validation: Deepening theory to broaden application of DOD protocols to the social sciences, I. Lustick and M. Tubin, USAEstablishing bounds of responsible operational use of social science models via innovations in verification and validation, A. Ruvinsky, J. Wedgwood and J. Welsh, USAContextual validation: Concept and application, D. Sallach, USALANGUAGE, TRUST, AND CULTUREImprovements in the Jabari event coder, D. Van Brackle and P. Haglich, USAEffect of culture on search strategies, M. Fendley and P. Kidambi, USAUsing language to influencing another's decision, R. Yager and F. Petry, USAAssessing attitudes in unstructured text, T. Hawes and P. David, USAAnalysis of discourse for indications and warnings, L. Fenstermacher, L. Kuznar and M. Yager, USASocio-linguistic factors and gender mapping across real and virtual world cultures, A. Lawson, K. Leveque, J. Murray and W. Wang, USA, N. Taylor, J. Jenson and S. de Castell, CanadaThe language of distance perception: Cultural and linguistic implications in distance perception, T. Endsley, UKBuilding trust in a counterinsurgency context, D. Combs, USA, C. Garris, Saudi Arabia, S. Blincoe, USA, and S. Aldamer, Saudi ArabiaSOCIAL MEDIA AND CULTURESocial networks, social media, social change, J. Pfeffer and K. Carley, USAIdentifying differences in cultural behavior in online groups, M. Gregory, D. Engel, E. Bell and L. McGrath, USAInferring demographic attributes and extracting political discourse from Nigerian social media, C. Fink, J. Kopecky and N. Bos, USAThe use of microworlds in the study of dynamic decision making across cultures, C. Güss and J. Evans, USASpeech and cultural recognition in a virtual experiential environment, D. Rea, USANetwork discovery: Measuring cause and effect behind event and social networks, P. Walker, T. Anglero and I. Davidson, USACultural analytics through image features extraction and exploration, P. Naeimi and E. Stroulia, CanadaSOCIAL SCIENCE AND CULTUREHow the Obama Administration misconstrued the Arab Spring and repeated the errors of the Bush Doctrine, J. Pidluzny, USAThe crisis of the West, the challenge of technology, and the reaffirmation of political philosophy, M. Bessette, USAAmerican legal education and the Supreme Court in the 1920s, R. Williams, USAThe philosophical foundations of the crisis of Western Civilization, M. Hail, USAA toolbox for countering extremist religious truths, S. Bar, IsraelFrom particles to people: Social, cultural and behavioral dynamics in insurgency, terrorism and beyond, N. Johnson, USAWhat is cross-culture? A. Löfström, SwedenSocio-cultural modeling through decision-theoretic agents with theory of mind, D. Pynadath and S. Marsella, USAPredictive societal indicators of radicalism – Forecasting political violence, S. Bell, A. Caglayan, L. Cassani and A. Murdie, USAPopulation sentiment modeling in support of ISAF Joint Command, L. Cassani, A. Caglayan, J. Alavedra, S. Das, W. Morgan and L. Mooney, USASemantic integration of socio-cultural knowledge for complex operations, L. Cassani, A. Caglayan, W. Morgan, L. Mooney, A. Boyles and B. Weiss, USA
