18th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
October 15-17, 2025, Hybrid, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.


Life Time Achievement Award - Lynn Smith-Lovin

Outstanding Service Award - Annetta Burger

Best Paper Award - Sayde King, Hoorad Abootalebi, Georgia Ng Wai, and Tempestt Neal. Evaluating Visual and Behavioral Signals of Deception in Real-World Contexts.

Best Student Paper Award - Sayantan Bhattacharya, Nitin Agarwal, and Diwash Poudel. Analyzing Democratic Trust Through Symbolic Communication: A Case Study of Taiwan's Presidential Election.

Best Student Paper Award - Changyang Wu, Meryl Ye, and Patrick Park. Tied to Place: Geographic Origins of Tie Survival.

LLM Simulation Challenge Winners - Grace Bai and Aurora Schmidt. Modeling the Spread of Rumors in Large Language Model-Integrated Agent-Based Simulations.

Medical Innovation Challenge Winner - Kyle Herdrich, Luke Prakarsa, Evan Williams, and Kathleen M. Carley. Graph Neural Networks to Predict Technological Adoption.


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