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AgentSociety 2: An Integrated Research Environment for Executable Social Science
Jinghua Piao, Jun Zhang, Haoyu Huang +16
AI scientist systems are beginning to automate parts of scientific research, but social science poses a distinct challenge: its objects of inquiry are not merely datasets or labora…
AI Urban Scientist: Multi-Agent Collaborative Automation for Urban Research
Tong Xia, Jiankun Zhang, Ruiwen You +8
Urban research aims to understand how cities operate and evolve as complex adaptive systems. With the rapid growth of urban data and analytical methodologies, the central challenge…
OmniScientist: Toward a Co-evolving Ecosystem of Human and AI Scientists
Chenyang Shao, Dehao Huang, Yu Li +18
With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents have demonstrated increasing proficiency in scientific tasks, ranging from hypothesis generation and experimen…
An Evaluation of Cultural Value Alignment in LLM
Nicholas Sukiennik, Chen Gao, Fengli Xu +1
LLMs as intelligent agents are being increasingly applied in scenarios where human interactions are involved, leading to a critical concern about whether LLMs are faithful to the v…
Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus (Just accepted by Nature, to be online soon)
Qianyue Hao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li +1
Development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has accelerated scientific discovery. Alongside recent AI-oriented Nobel prizes, these trends establish the role of AI tools in science.…
Cyber Food Swamps: Investigating the Impacts of Online-to-Offline Food Delivery Platforms on Healthy Food Choices
Yunke Zhang, Yiran Fan, Peijie Liu +2
Online-to-offline (O2O) food delivery platforms have greatly expanded urban residents' access to a wide range of food options by allowing convenient ordering from distant food outl…
Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity
Lin Chen, Fengli Xu, Zhenyu Han +4
Balancing social utility and equity in distributing limited vaccines represents a critical policy concern for protecting against the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. What is the nature…
Understanding the Role of Intermediaries in Online Social E-commerce: An Exploratory Study of Beidian
Zhilong Chen, Hancheng Cao, Fengli Xu +3
Social e-commerce, as a new form of social computing based marketing platforms, utilizes existing real-world social relationships for promotions and sales of products. It has been…
Learning from Home: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Live Streaming Based Remote Education Experience in Chinese Colleges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Zhilong Chen, Hancheng Cao, Yuting Deng +5
The COVID-19 global pandemic and resulted lockdown policies have forced education in nearly every country to switch from a traditional co-located paradigm to a pure online 'distanc…
Smartphone App Usage Prediction Using Points of Interest
Donghan Yu, Yong Li, Fengli Xu +2
In this paper we present the first population-level, city-scale analysis of application usage on smartphones. Using deep packet inspection at the network operator level, we obtaine…
Trajectory Recovery From Ash: User Privacy Is NOT Preserved in Aggregated Mobility Data
Fengli Xu, Zhen Tu, Yong Li +3
Human mobility data has been ubiquitously collected through cellular networks and mobile applications, and publicly released for academic research and commercial purposes for the l…