8-9 am: Keynote Talk: Dinesh Verma, IBM Research

9:15-10 Understanding the Medium: Social Modeling and Prediction I

Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Criminal Activity
Michail Misyrlis; Chung-Ming Cheung; Ajitesh Srivastava; Rajgopal Kannan; Viktor K. Prasanna

Correlated Friends' Impacts in Social-crowdsensing
Wei Chang; Wei-Shih Yang; Jie Wu

A Machine Learning Approach to Demographic Prediction using Geohashes
Avipsa Roy; Edzer Pebesma

10:00-10:25 Break

10:25-11:25 Panel: Understanding the Social in Social Sensing

Edward Palazzolo, ARO (Chair)
Art Ramirez, Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications, University of South Florida
Matthew Brashears, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina
Jana Diesner, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dawn Gilpin, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Kristy Hollingshead, Natural Language Processing, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition

11:25-12:10 Understanding the Dynamics: Social Modeling and Prediction II

Crowdsourcing Social Media for Military Operations
Heather Roy; Sue E Kase; Elizabeth Bowman

From Ideas to Social Signals: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Social Media Dynamics
Filipe Condessa; Radu Marculescu

Airborne Disease Propagation on Large Scale Social Contact Network
Md Shahzamal; Raja Jurdak; Reza Arablouei; Minkyoung Kim; Kanchana Thilakarathna; Bernard Mans

12:10-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 On Social Sensing Efficacy

Graph-Theoretic Approach for Increasing Participation in Social Sensing
Waseem Abbas; Aron Laszka; Xenofon Koutsoukos

Does Confidence Reporting From the Crowd Benefit Crowdsourcing Performance?
Qunwei Li; Pramod Varshney

Exploring Compliance: Observations from a Large Scale Fitbit Study
Louis Faust; Rachael Purta; David Hachen; Aaron D Striegel; Christian Poellabauer; Omar Lizardo; Nitesh Chawla

The Fog Makes Sense: Enabling Social Sensing Services With Limited Internet Connectivity
Ruben Mayer; Harshit Gupta; Enrique Saurez; Umakishore Ramachandran

2:30-3:15 Applications

Identifying the Space Buddies to Track Lost Items
Eyuphan Bulut; Boleslaw K Szymanski

Audio Analysis as a Control Knob for Social Sensing
Dinesh Verma; Bong Jun Ko; Shiqiang Wang; Xiping Wang; Graham Bent

Unsupervised Event Tracking by Integrating Twitter and Instagram
Shiguang Wang; Prasanna Giridhar; Lance Kaplan; Tarek Abdelzaher

Sensing User-Generated Multimedia Traffic
Bradley Rougeau; Mea Wang

3:15-3:40 Break

3:40-4:20 Visions Session

Heterogeneous Social Signals Capturing Real-world Diffusion Processes
Minkyoung Kim; Raja Jurdak

Integration of Social Behavioral Modeling for Energy Optimization in Smart Environments
Simone Silvestri; Denise Baker; Valeria Dolce

Localize Online Social Network User via Social Sensing
Zidong Yang; Shibo He; Jiming Chen; Youxian Sun

Mining mobile sensor data for social behaviors
Huan Li; YuanJie Gou

Privacy Mindset for Developing Internet of Things Applications for Social Sensing: Software Engineering Challenges
Charith Perera; Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Social Sensing in Developing Regions: Challenges for Bus Arrival Time Prediction
Teogenes Moura; Gabriel Kalejaiye; Henrique Orefice; Matheus Bafutto; Marcelo M Carvalho

4:20-5:20 Panel: Sensing in Social Spaces: A Research Roadmap

Mani Srivastava, UCLA
Sajal Das, MST
Pramod K. Varshney, Syracuse University
JinHee Cho, ARL
Guohong Cao, Penn State University