Applications of Data-Centric Science to Social Design: Qualitative and Quantitative Understanding of Collective Human Behavior

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The intention behind this book is to illustrate the deep relation among human behavior, data-centric science, and social design. In fact, these three issues have been independently developing in different fields, although they are, of course, deeply interrelated to one another. Specifically, fundamental understanding of human behavior should be employed for investigating our human society and designing social systems. Insights and both quantitative and qualitative understandings of collective human behavior are quite useful when social systems are designed. Fundamental principles of human behavior, theoretical models of human behavior, and information cascades are addressed as aspects of human behavior. Data-driven investigation of human nature, social behavior, and societal systems are developed as aspects of data-centric science. As design aspects, how to design social systems from heterogeneous memberships is explained. There is also discussion of these three aspects—human behavior, data-centric science, and social design—independently and with regard to the relationships among them. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 How to Design Society from a Data-Centric Point of View (Aki-Hiro Sato)....Pages 3-16 Practical Methods for Data Analysis (Aki-Hiro Sato)....Pages 17-31 An Approach to Product Design Involving Heterogeneous Stakeholders (Aki-Hiro Sato)....Pages 33-49 Designing Human-Machine Systems Focusing on Benefits of Inconvenience (Hiroshi Kawakami)....Pages 51-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Information Cascade and Phase Transition (Masato Hisakado, Shintaro Mori)....Pages 65-79 Information Cascade, Kirman’s Ant Colony Model, and Kinetic Ising Model (Masato Hisakado, Shintaro Mori)....Pages 81-97 Information Cascade and Networks (Masato Hisakado, Shintaro Mori)....Pages 99-118 The Pitman-Yor Process and Choice Behavior (Masato Hisakado, Shintaro Mori)....Pages 119-139 Domino Effect in Information Cascade (Shintaro Mori, Masato Hisakado)....Pages 141-165 Information Cascade Experiment: General Knowledge Quiz (Shintaro Mori, Masato Hisakado)....Pages 167-179 Information Cascade Experiment: Urn Quiz (Shintaro Mori, Masato Hisakado)....Pages 181-191 Information Cascade and Bayes Formula (Masato Hisakado, Shintaro Mori)....Pages 193-202 Front Matter ....Pages 203-203 How Betters Vote in Horse Race Betting Market (Shintaro Mori, Masato Hisakado)....Pages 205-216 Smart Micro-sensing: Reaching Sustainability in Agriculture via Distributed Sensors in the Food Chain (R. Dolci, L. Boschis)....Pages 217-224 High-Frequency Data Analysis of Foreign Exchange Markets (Aki-Hiro Sato)....Pages 225-245 On Measuring Extreme Synchrony with Network Entropy of Bipartite Graphs (Aki-Hiro Sato)....Pages 247-266