Category: Computational Social Science

Chatbots have increasingly gained popularity in museums and exhibitions, enhancing visitors’ self-guided tour experiences. Compared to traditional tours, chatbots offer more personalized interactions, providing new version to the exhibition. This study, taking the YunTech Sustainable Expo as a case, explores whether visitors with varying levels of technological experience require more guided experiences on Chatbot-guide. Employing …

Droughts present a series of significant problems that affect both the environment and society. Problems arise in diferents intensity, scope, type of impact by region, for example water scarcity affects supply of water for human consumption, agriculture, industry and the environment. To address these problems, it is crucial to implement water management strategies and a …

An estimated count of 154 million Filipinos are suffering from depression and it is considered to be one of the mental health concerns in the Philippines. It is a mental disorder that can be seen in various social contexts that display its level of functioning specially when exposed or triggered in a specific environment. Depression …

Peoples communicated on the current social media were mainly to share emotions and experiences in addition to exchanging information. However, the researches for discussing how to design the interface for interconnectedness communication are still very rare till now. It is especially true for this kind of communication based on the use of virtual characters. This …

The main issue of this paper concerns the future of social machines, analyzed as united system of computers and people. Starting from existing social networks as Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia etc., which have an enormous impact on every aspect of our lives, and thanks to an explosion of new technologies, the opportunity for creation of new …

Travelling salesman problem with time windows (TSPTW) is a well-known NP-hard problem in which the objective is to minimize the total travel cost or makespan when visiting each of a set of customers within a given time period. In the literature, TSPTW with the objective of travel cost minimization is extensively studied and a good …