2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
July 09-12, 2019, Lehman Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Regular Paper Submission: 01-March-2019 (Midnight EST)
Author Notification: 22-March-2019
Final Version Submission for Regular Papers: 12-April-2019
Working Paper Submission*: 17-May-2019
Doctoral Consortium Submission due: 17-May-2019
Tutorial Submission: 17-May-2019
Demo Submission: 17-May-2019
Challenge Response Submission: 17-May-2019

Submit your paper here. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission.

To submit the final version, the authors should update easychair with their final submission and any zips (containing source images) at the same location as their original submission. In addition, authors should download and sign the copyright form and upload it in easychair along with their submission. The editors of the proceedings are: Robert Thomson, Chris Dancy, Halil Bisgin, Ayaz Hyder. Please list them on your copyright form as the editors.

Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. All accepted regular papers will be published in the physical proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume. This volume is considered archival.

All accepted papers require confirmation of conference registration when uploading final versions. Each accepted paper requires a separate registration.

All papers will be a maximum of 10 pages.

All accepted late breaking papers will be published in the on-line proceeding and presented as posters.

PAPER FORMATTING GUIDELINE:

The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. View sample LaTeX2e and WORD files. It is not required to submit a cover page first. This is optional.

All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and references. All accepted and finalized papers will be published in the formal printed proceedings. This is an archival document.

TOPICS:

Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:

Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling

Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution

Collective action and governance

Cultural patterns & representation

Social conventions, social contexts and processes

Influence process and recognition

Public opinion representation, identification and modeling

Information diffusion

Psycho-cultural situation awareness

Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling

Models of reasoning and decision making

Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking

Intelligent tutoring systems

Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction

Human behavior issues in model federations

Information, Systems, & Network Science

Data mining on social media platforms

Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks

Inference of network topologies and changes over time

Analysis of link formations and link types

Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks

Analysis of high-dimensional networks

Analytics for social and human dynamics

Military & Intelligence Applications

Group formation and evolution in the political context

Networks and political influence

Group representation and profiling

Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them

Cyber and attribution

Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities

Applications for Health and Well-being

Social network analysis to understand health behavior

Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making

Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread

Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma)

Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health

Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community

Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction

Model federation, integration, verification, or validation

Evolutionary computing and optimization

Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation

CHALLENGE PROBLEM:

The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted soon. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to receive updates. The deadline for submissions this year will be 17-May-2019.

PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:

Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full conference. More details regarding the preconference tutorial sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted as soon as this information becomes available. For further information, please contact sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:

Previous SBP conferences have included a Cross-fertilization Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross-fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering on future SBP-related research collaborations. The Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives from federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Army Research Office (ARO), National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

HOTEL AND LOGISTICS:

Information on hotel and logistics is provided in the Location and Travel section.

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:

It is anticipated that a limited number of travel scholarships will be available on a competitive basis to students who are presenting papers. Additional information will be provided soon.

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Download:

Download Call for Papers in PDF format here.

* Late breaking and short papers are now referred to as working papers.

Submit

 

The submission website is available here. To submit your paper, use the standard Easychair submission website. Until the final paper deadline, you will be able to update your submission.