@inproceedings{66cb778dca6f412a8a2b1ab430d29176,
title = "Simulating Online Social Response: A Stimulus/Response Perspective",
abstract = "The paper describes a methodology for simulating online social media activities that occur in response to external events. A large number of social media simulators model information diffusion on online social networks. However, information cascades do not originate in vacuum. Rather, they often originate as a reaction to events external to the online medium. Thus, to predict activity on the social medium, one must investigate the relation between external stimuli and online social responses. The paper presents a simulation pipeline that features stimulus/response models describing how social systems react to external events of relevance to them. Two case studies are presented to test the fidelity of different models. One investigates online responses to events in the Venezuela election crisis. The other investigates online responses to developments of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). These case studies indicate that simple macroscopic stimulus/response models can accurately predict aggregate online trends.",
author = "Huajie Shao and Tarek Abdelzaher and Jiawei Han and Minhao Jiang and Yuning Mao and Yu Meng and Wenda Qiu and Dachun Sun and Ruijie Wang and Chaoqi Yang and Zhenzhou Yang and Xinyang Zhang and Yu Zhang and Sam Cohen and James Flamino and Gyorgy Korniss and Omar Malik and Aamir Mandviwalla and Boleslaw Szymanski and Lake Yin",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 2021 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2021 ; Conference date: 12-12-2021 Through 15-12-2021",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1109/WSC52266.2021.9715347",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
booktitle = "2021 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2021",
address = "United States",
}