16th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
September 20-22, 2023, Hybrid.
Gates Hillman Complex
4902 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

All papers are eligible to be considered 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: 5- Jun-2023
Review Deadline: 26- Jun-2023
Author Notification: 3- Jul-2023
Final Files Due: 17- Jul-2023

Submission of Panels & Working Papers: 10- Jul-2023
Author Notification: 17- Jul-2023
Final Files Due: 1-Aug-2023

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

Note: Submissions are single blind. All papers undergo a rigorous peer review process for presentation in the plenary, regular, or poster sessions. All papers accepted to the plenary sessions will be published in the archival proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume. Only Regular papers will be evaluated for either the archival or online proceedings. The remaining tracks will be published online for 1 year on our non-archival conference website. Each accepted paper requires confirmation of conference registration and requires a separate registration prior to being considered for a plenary session (oral or poster).

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. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and references.

CHALLENGE PROBLEM:

See Challenge page for more information.

CONFERENCE PANELS:

See Panels page for more information.

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 will be posted as soon as this information becomes available..

FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:

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, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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).

ATTENDANCE 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.

TOPICS:

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

Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling Agent-based modeling

  • Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution
  • Collective action and governance
  • Cultural patterns & representation
  • Social conventions, social contexts and processes
  • Influence process, recognition, and diffusion
  • Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
  • 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 overtime
  • 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, Cyber, & 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
  • 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)
  • 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
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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.

     

    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.
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