Mi-Young Kim, J. Rabelo, Kingsley Okeke, R. Goebel
{"title":"Legal Information Retrieval and Entailment Based on BM25, Transformer and Semantic Thesaurus Methods","authors":"Mi-Young Kim, J. Rabelo, Kingsley Okeke, R. Goebel","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00103-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00103-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 1","pages":"157 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43442473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation of Shocks in Individual Firms Through Supplier-Customer Relationships.","authors":"Ryoji Sato, Takayuki Mizuno","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00123-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00123-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We quantify the magnitude of shock that propagates individual firms through direct supplier-customer relationships. First, we construct machine learning models that predict a firm's sales growth rate based on corporate attributes and sales information of the firm and its suppliers/customers. The prediction models indicate that not only macroeconomic factors, such as the year and country, but also sales fluctuation of suppliers/customers are important predictors of the firm's sales growth rate. Second, we plot the change in the predicted sales growth rates in accordance with those of suppliers/customers using a partial dependence plot. Thus, we quantify how much a firm's sales growth rate changes in accordance with the changes of its suppliers/customers, namely, the magnitude of shock propagation. Finally, we verify the magnitude of shock propagation by comparing it with the sales growth rate of firms that have suppliers/customers negatively impacted by Hurricane Sandy in the U.S. in 2012. The comparison indicates that there is no significant difference between them and further demonstrates that we can simulate how much the shock that occurred in the disaster-affected firms propagates to their transaction firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 2","pages":"377-398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33497369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulations of the Diffusion of Innovation by Trust-Distrust Model Focusing on the Network Structure.","authors":"Makoto Fujii","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00113-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00113-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study is to examine the role of interaction between mass media and people in the diffusion of innovation using the Trust-Distrust model, one of the theories of opinion dynamics. Therefore, in this study, we ran simulations using the Trust-Distrust model to confirm the differences in opinion distribution across different network structures. We used the five adopter categories as the agents of the Trust-Distrust model and applied the random network, scale-free network, and small-world network as the networks for simulation. As a result, we confirmed that differences in network structure lead to differences in the diffusion of innovations (distribution of opinions).</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":" ","pages":"527-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9383692/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40433135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface of Special Issue on Data Science Questing for a Better Society.","authors":"Takayuki Mizuno, Takaaki Ohnishi, Ryohei Hisano, Hiroshi Iyetomi, Tsutomu Watanabe","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00124-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00124-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 2","pages":"333-335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33484295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music Roles Affect the Selection of Consumption Means: A Questionnaire Survey of People's Expectations for Music and Exploratory Factor Analysis.","authors":"Makoto Takeuchi, Soichiro Morishita, Yukie Sano","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00115-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00115-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People listen to music for various purposes, and the roles that listeners expect from music can vary from person to person. In recent years, \"subscription-based streaming services\" (hereinafter referred to as \"subscription\") have increased their share in the music market, thereby changing the way people listen to music. Though, the impact of this change on the role of music, is yet to be explored. This study analyzed survey data to reveal the relationship between the expected roles of music and the choice of music consumption means, including subscription. In particular, we obtained that a factor in the use of subscription is the expectation of constructing a personal identity. We also found that both purchase and live usage are affected by two factors: <i>the expectation of fan identity construction</i> and <i>the expectation of artist contribution</i>. This indicates that subscription is not an alternative to the existing means, but a new kind of consumption means in the music market. It was also found that subscription facilitates the construction of personal identity through music.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12626-022-00115-x.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":" ","pages":"453-464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9434533/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40352289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Spatial Separation of New and Existing Residents: Case Study of Tsukuba City in Greater Tokyo Area.","authors":"Takayuki Mizuno, Akihiro Kobayashi, Daisuke Kamisaka, Yoko Hata, Atsunori Minamikawa","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00118-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00118-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For balancing the improvement of social capital through mutual interaction among residents and measures against infectious diseases, municipalities must understand where their residents interact with each other during epidemics. By distinguishing between new and existing residents based on the average age of the houses in their residential areas, we measured the degree of separation between them at various locations and facilities in the Tsukuba City in the Greater Tokyo Area during the daytime based on smartphone location information. We also investigated separation by visitors' residential savings and income class and their age and gender in each location. Separation was observed in almost all the public places in Tsukuba City, even before the COVID-19 outbreak. During the outbreak, many public places and facilities were visited by fewer people, and yet their separation increased. On the other hand, separation lessened in parks, increasing opportunities for residents to interact. Even after the outbreak began, lower separation environments remained in places where food courts and department stores were located compared to other places. In the post-outbreak period, separation returned to its normal level.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":" ","pages":"559-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9470078/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40367651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chia-Sung Yen, I-Hsien Ting, Shu-Chen Yang, Chia-Yin Kang
{"title":"Changes in Consumer Purchasing Behavior of Cultural and Creative Products During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Chia-Sung Yen, I-Hsien Ting, Shu-Chen Yang, Chia-Yin Kang","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00129-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00129-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 has led the changes of many business models, including rapid growth in e-commerce that had made the change of consumers' shopping behavior from physical to online shopping. This study takes Taiwan's cultural and creative industry as an example to understand the relationship between the development of e-commerce and the design of commodity packaging during COVID-19, as well as the changes in consumer consumption patterns during the epidemic period. After exploring more than a dozen cultural and creative brand operators in the target research area using qualitative research methods, this study found that the epidemic has indeed affected the sales of some cultural and creative brands, but through the change of packaging design, consumers' visual perception stimulates the sales of goods and re-established pay attention to the cultural and creative brands when add some new packaging designs, and bring positive effects on e-commerce sales to the brand. Also, the good packaging design brought some more attention and procurement of goods, and also brings the effect of quality improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 2","pages":"615-622"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9542466/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33516522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing the Predictive Performance of Credibility-Based Fake News Detection Using Ensemble Learning.","authors":"Amit Neil Ramkissoon, Wayne Goodridge","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00127-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12626-022-00127-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fake news detection continues to be a major problem that affects our society today. Fake news can be classified using a variety of methods. Predicting and detecting fake news has proven to be challenging even for machine learning algorithms. This research employs Legitimacy, a unique ensemble machine learning model to accomplish the task of Credibility-Based Fake News Detection. The Legitimacy ensemble combines the learning potential of a Two-Class Boosted Decision Tree and a Two-Class Neural Network. The ensemble technique follows a pseudo-mixture-of-experts methodology. For the gating model, an instance of Two-Class Logistic Regression is implemented. This study validates Legitimacy using a standard dataset with features relating to the credibility of news publishers to predict fake news. These features are analysed using the ensemble algorithm. The results of these experiments are examined using four evaluation methodologies. The analysis of the results reveals positive performance with the use of the ensemble ML method with an accuracy of 96.9%. This ensemble's performance is compared with the performance of the two base machine learning models of the ensemble. The performance of the ensemble surpasses that of the two base models. The performance of Legitimacy is also analysed as the size of the dataset increases to demonstrate its scalability. Hence, based on our selected dataset, the Legitimacy ensemble model has proven to be most appropriate for Credibility-Based Fake News Detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 2","pages":"259-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9483524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33484294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network Analysis of the Gender Gap in International Remittances by Migrants.","authors":"Zelda Marquardt, Yuichi Ikeda","doi":"10.1007/s12626-022-00125-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-022-00125-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Financial inclusion is considered a key enabler of international development goals. Despite the expansion of financial access overall, the gender inequalities in basic access have remained consistent. This research investigates the predictive power of global remittance and migration flows on the gender gap in financial inclusion. First, singular value decomposition is applied to the World Bank's 2017 Global Findex data to identify the financial inclusion variables that most contribute to the gender gap in financial inclusion. We find that indicators pertaining to account ownership, emergency funding, and receiving payments are especially significant. Based on the identified variables, a novel Financial Inclusion Gender Gap Score is calculated for 143 economies. The score is then incorporated into a complex network analysis of global remittance and migration networks. We analyze how network features such as node attributes, community membership, and bow-tie structure can be used to make inferences about the magnitude of a financial inclusion gender gap. Our findings suggest that weaker linkages in the network, characterized by lower node strength and peripheral positions in the bow-tie structure, are determinants of a notable financial inclusion gender gap. We also highlight communities in the remittance and migration networks with a more substantial gender imbalance, and discuss the the social- and cultural-leaning factors driving community formation in the migration network that seem to predicate a greater gap.</p>","PeriodicalId":75184,"journal":{"name":"The review of socionetwork strategies","volume":"16 2","pages":"337-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526384/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33497368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}