CX Team
Faculty
Graduate Students
Chester Balingit, M.S.
Damian Dailisan, M.S.
Ivan Fenis
Kenneth Leo
Undergraduate Students
Jona Ann Vistal
Kelvin Bartilad
Mark Louise Badua
Olyn Desabelle
Elmo Domino Jose
Overview
The group investigates sociotechnical systems that are rich in empirical data. We are actively involved in data mining social media, agent-based modeling of ecological systems, agent-based modeling of vehicular traffic, and analyzing complex networks.
Recent Publications
D. N. Dailisan and M. T. Lim. Vehicular traffic modeling with greedy lane-changing and inordinate waiting. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (Feb 2019) [DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2019.01.107]
Richard N. Muallil, Samuel S. Mamauag, Reniel B. Cabral, Emerlinda O. Celeste-Dizon, Porfirio M. Aliño, Status, trends and challenges in the sustainability of small-scale fisheries in the Philippines: Insights from FISHDA (Fishing Industries' Support in Handling Decisions Application) model, Marine Policy 44, 212-221 (2014). [DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.08.026].
Reniel B. Cabral, Porfirio M. Aliño and May T. Lim, Modelling the impacts of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and fish enhancing devices (FEDs) and their implications for managing small-scale fishery, ICES Journal of Marine Science (2014). [DOI:10.1093/icesjms/fst229].
Christian Alis and May Lim, Spatio-Temporal Variation of Conversational Utterances on Twitter, PLoS ONE 8(10): e77793 (2013). [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0077793].
Reniel Cabral, Annabelle Cruz-Trinidad, Rollan Geronimo, Lydia Napitupulu, Paul Lokani, Delvene Boso, Christine Marie Casal, Nurulhuda Ahmad Fatan, and Porfirio Aliño, Crisis sentinel indicators: Averting a potential meltdown in the Coral Triangle, Marine Policy 39, 241–247 (2013). [DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.012].
Reniel B Cabral, Porfirio M Aliño, and May T Lim, A coupled stock-recruitment-age-structured model of the North Sea cod under the influence of depensation, Ecological Modelling 253, 1–8 (2013). [DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.12.031].
Christian M. Alis and May T. Lim, Adaptation of fictional and online conversations to communication media, European Physical Journal B 85, 397 (2012).[DOI:10.1140/epjb/e2012-30711-0].
Jay Samuel L. Combinido and May T. Lim, Crowding Effects in Vehicular Traffic, PLoS ONE 7(11), e48151 (2012). [DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0048151].
In the News
Nature News FEATURE FOR THE PUBLICATION:
Reniel B. Cabral, Porfirio M. Aliño and May T. Lim, Modelling the impacts of fish aggregating devices (FADs) and fish enhancing devices (FEDs) and their implications for managing small-scale fishery, ICES Journal of Marine Science (2014).
[Nature News] Use of 'fish aggregating devices' could be unsustainable (Daniel Cressey)
PRESS/BLOG COVERAGE OF THE PUBLICATION:
Christian Alis and May Lim, Spatio-Temporal Variation of Conversational Utterances on Twitter, PLoS ONE 8(10): e77793 (2013).
[MIT Technology Review online] Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
“Christian Alis and May Lim at the University of the Philippines say they have measured how the length of tweets have changed between September 2009 and December 2012 and say that tweets have shrunk dramatically in that time.”
[TIME.com] The Incredible Shrinking Tweet
http://techland.time.com/2013/10/16/the-incredible-shrinking-tweet/
“Study authors Christian Alis and May Lim attribute the shortening of tweets to the increased use of jargon, implying Twitter users are self-segregating into subgroups that understand the same lingo ....”
[GMANews online] Tweets are shrinking, UP physicists say
[Neuroskeptic blog @ DISCOVER Magazine] Why Are (Some) Tweets Getting Shorter?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/11/11/lost-art-twitter-conversation/
[National Post] Who needs 140 characters anymore? Tweets keep getting shorter, new study finds
[The Switch @ Washington Post]
“Good tweeting is often an exercise in good editing — cramming any thought into 140 characters can be a challenge in itself, let alone coming up with something smart or witty. But it turns out that a lot of us have actually become pretty effective at not hitting the character limit.”