Mar 31, 2015 – Apr 3, 2015
Washington DC, USA
Abstract Registration Due: Nov 7, 2014
Submission Deadline: Nov 14, 2014
Notification Due: Dec 19, 2014
Final Version Due: Jan 16, 2015
http://sbp-conference.org/
SBP is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. SBP also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior within a social context. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences.
The SBP conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government agencies to exchange ideas on current challenges in social computing, behavioral modeling and prediction, and on state-of-the-art methods and best practices being adopted to tackle these challenges.
Call for Papers:
Papers (both regular and short papers) are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. Topics
of interests include, but are not limited to,
Basic Research on Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes using SBP
Group interaction and collaboration
Group formation and evolution
Group representation and profiling
Collective action and governance
Cultural patterns & representation
Social conventions and social contexts
Influence process and recognition
Public opinion representation
Viral marketing and information diffusion
Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Methodological Issues in SBP
Mathematical foundations
Verification and validation
Sensitivity analysis
Matching technique or method to research questions
Metrics and evaluation
Methodological innovation
Model federation and integration
Evolutionary computing
Network analysis and optimization
Military & Security Applications
Group formation and evolution in the political context
Technology and flash crowds
Networks and political influence
Group representation and profiling
Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Health Applications of SBP
Social network analysis to understand health behavior
Modeling of health policy and decision making
Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other Applications of SBP
Economic applications of SBP
Reasoning about development aid through SBP
Reasoning about global educational efforts through SBP
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Registration Deadline: November 7, 2014 (11:59pm, EST)
Paper Submission: November 14, 2014 (11:59pm, EST)
Author Notification: December 19, 2014 (11:59pm, EST)
Format and Submission:
SBP15 Conference Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LCNS) by Springer. The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Papers for SBP15 can be in one of two categories: regular papers or short papers. Regular papers will have up to 10 pages and short papers will have up to 6 pages. The short papers will be presented as posters at the conference. Both regular and short papers will be included in the final conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted in PDF before the specified deadlines.
Submission website is open at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbp15.