part Section I: Multifarious Modeling Discussions -- chapter 1 Stable versus flexible dynamic decision making across cultures: A growth mixture modeling approach -- chapter 2 Creating the foundations for modeling irregular warfare / chapter 3 Granular ABM simulations for operational use: Forecasting and what-if experiments with models of Kandahar and Kunduz -- chapter 4 Culture that works / chapter 5 Discovering entity characteristics and relationships through topic modeling -- chapter 6 A non-therapeutic, micro-worlds based, application of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) to fostering cross-cultural competence -- chapter 7 What lies beneath: Forecast transparency to foster understanding and trust in forecast models -- chapter 8 Combining social and environmental models / part Section II: Verification, Validation, and Assessment -- chapter 9 Fundamentals in empirical validation of and analysis with social science models -- chapter 10 Al-Qa'ida through a discursive lens / chapter 11 Countering the adversary / chapter 12 Interfacing and validating models of the US Army TRAC tactical war game -- chapter 13 Multi-modeling and socio-cultural complexity: Reuse and validation / chapter 14 AV&V approach for complex models: A use case example / chapter 15 Multi-modeling and meta-modeling of human organizations / chapter 16 Verification as a form of validation: Deepening theory to broaden application of DOD protocols to the social sciences -- chapter 17 Establishing bounds of responsible operational use of social science models via innovations in verification and validation -- chapter 18 Contextual validation: Concept and application / part Section III: Language, Trust, and Culture -- chapter 19 Improvements in the Jabari event coder / chapter 20 Effect of culture on search strategies / chapter 21 Using language to influencing another's decision / chapter 22 Assessing attitudes in unstructured text / chapter 23 Analysis of discourse for indications and warnings / chapter 24 Socio-linguistic factors and gender mapping across real and virtual world cultures -- chapter 25 The language of distance perception: Cultural and linguistic implications in distance perception -- chapter 26 Building trust in a counterinsurgency context / part Section IV: Social Media and Culture -- chapter 27 Social networks, social media, social change / chapter 28 Identifying differences in cultural behavior in online groups -- chapter 29 Inferring demographic attributes and extracting political discourse from Nigerian social media -- chapter 30 The use of microworlds in the study of dynamic decision making across cultures -- chapter 31 Speech and cultural recognition in a virtual experiential environment -- chapter 32 Network discovery: Measuring cause and effect behind event and social networks -- chapter 33 Cultural analytics through image features extraction and exploration / part Section V: Social Science and Culture -- chapter 34 How the Obama Administration misconstrued the Arab Spring and repeated the errors of the Bush Doctrine -- chapter 35 The crisis of the West, the challenge of technology, and the reaffirmation of political philosophy -- chapter 36 American legal education and the Supreme Court in the 1920s / chapter 37 The philosophical foundations of the crisis of Western Civilization / chapter 38 A toolbox for countering extremist religious truths / chapter 39 From particles to people: Social, cultural and behavioral dynamics in insurgency, terrorism and beyond -- chapter 40 What is cross-culture? / chapter 41 Socio-cultural modeling through decision-theoretic agents with theory of mind -- chapter 42 Predictive societal indicators of radicalism and#8211; Forecasting political violence -- chapter 43 Population sentiment modeling in support of ISAF Joint Command / chapter 44 Semantic integration of socio-cultural knowledge for complex operations.