Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling

The book "Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling" documents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, which took place online from July 6 to 9, 2021. This volume includes 32 full papers that were carefully selected from 56 submissions. The contributions are organized into thematic sections addressing COVID-related topics, methodologies, social cybersecurity, and social networks, as well as the modeling of people and agents. The diversity of disciplines represented in these works ranges from computer science to psychology, sociology, communication studies, public health, bioinformatics, political science, and organizational science. The authors employ a variety of computational methods, including machine learning, speech technology, social network analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation, and statistics.