19th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
October 12-14, 2026, Hybrid.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213.

A link to view the online copy of the conference proceedings published by Springer will be posted here soon. It will be available for four weeks starting October 12, 2026.

• Jason Jeffrey Jones. "Support for AI Development: Automated Daily Measurement with Open Data and Code"

• Jack Moody, Iain Cruickshank and Lynnette Hui Xian Ng. "Characterizing Behavioral Deviation in Endpoint Telemetry via ATT&CK Transitions"

• Keegan Woodburn, Caleb Frey, Jeremy Schurke, Ryan Reeves, Joshua Hammonds and Ian McCulloh. "Interpretable Archetype Discovery for Mixed-Type Survey Modeling"

• Nhu Trang Nguyen and Viet Thanh Pham. "RegionalOpinionQA: Benchmarking Distributional Prediction of Large Language Models to Subnational Public Opinion"

• Robert Thomson and Christian Lebiere. "Generalizing Firmware Vulnerabilities from Sequential Expert Decisions Using Smith-Waterman Alignment"

• Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng and Kathleen Carley. "User-Reported Misinformation Exposure Across Social Media Platforms"

• Cathy Wang, Jeongkeun Shin, Siyuan Zhai, L. Richard Carley and Kathleen Carley. "Network-Based Defense Optimization Against Ransomware Campaigns"

• Jeongkeun Shin, L. Richard Carley and Kathleen Carley. "Network-Based Cost-Aware Optimization of Ransomware Mitigation Strategies"

• Eunhee Park, Dian Hu, David Broniatowski and Monica Ruiz. "Self-Disclosed Substance Use During Pregnancy on Reddit (2020-2022): LLM-Assisted Identification of Cas-es, Substances, and Barriers to Care"

• Alexander Hough. "Information Effect Scalability with a Cognitive Architecture and Agent-based Modeling"

• Andrew Johnson, Kevin Sparks, Nicole Johnson, Gautam Thakur and Martin Smyth. "Built-Environment Predictors of Street-Segment Pedestrian Activity in New York City, NY, USA"

• Nitin Agarwal and Diwash Poudel. "Symbols of Dissent: How Visual Symbolism Shapes Engagement and Emotions in Nepal’s 2025 Anti-Corruption Movement"

• Nitin Agarwal and Bishwa Prakash Subedi. "Role of Symbolic Configurations in Competing Narrative Diffusion on YouTube During the 2025 Indonesia Protests"

• Ridwan Amure and Nitin Agarwal. "Campaign-Level Behavioral Archetypes Transfer Across Political Campaigns"

• Prasiddha Siwakoti, Micah Windsor, Connor Lewis and Ignacio Segovia-Dominguez. "Quantum Machine Learning for Conflict Fatality and Romantic Relationship Prediction: Entangled with Promise, Measured in Practice"

• Narae Reed and Yan Liu. "Dimensionality Assessment in Small Samples: Comparing EGA and EFA"

• Dian Hu, Allison Ducharme-Smith, Brittany Strelow, Diana Varghese, Elham Ahmed, Kimia Anaraki, Emma Silverman and Rozalina McCoy. "From LLM-Assisted Dialogue Identification to Clinical Sensemaking: A Case Study of Disaster-Preparedness Discourse in Type 1 Diabetes Subreddits"

• Ramya Rakkiappan and Hamdi Kavak. "An Agent-Based Model of Recidivism"

• Samantha Phillips and Kathleen M. Carley. "An Assessment of Identity Complexity in Social Media Bios"

• Xihao Cao. "From Detection to Frontline Decision Support: A Configurable AI Framework for Anti-Trafficking Triage and Resource Allocation"

• Shankhanabha Ghosh, Aamir Sahil Chandroth, Nithya Ramakrishnan and Sanjay Chandrasekharan. "Minimal agents can generate and self-regulate novel social behaviors using just Reinforcement Learning"

• Haoting Gao, Kapotaksha Das, Liang Zhang, Mohamed Abouelenien, Michael Cole, James Cooke and Vitaliy Popov. "Visual Attention is Not Memoryless: Higher-Order Sequence Modeling of Teamlead Gaze in VR Cardiac Arrest Simulation"

• Peter Carragher and Kathleen Carley. "Interaction Diversity in News Ecosystems: Accounting for Organizational Structure and Ownership"

• John Benson. "What LLMs Understand about Dynamic Networks"

• Shaurya Gupta. "Modeling Authorization Saturation in AI-Governed Institutions"

• Gordon Hew, Christine Lepird and Ian McCulloh. "Finfluencing Portfolio Asset Allocation"

• Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Andrew Tham, Joel Sim, Weijie Ng, Chang Hong How and Elsie Toh. "Personal History and Community RAG Improve Reddit Reply Simulation"

• Daneul Kim and Yuyeong Kim. "Conditions for Social Trajectory Collapse: Agent-Based Simulation of Time-Geographic Trajectory Distributions"

• Muhammad Hamza Arshad Majeed, Sid Ahmed Benabderrahmane and Talal Rahwan. "Interpretable Crisis Behavior Analysis Using Mobility and Social Media Data"

• Harihar Rengan and Ali-Mansur Valiyev. "Empirical and behavioral-simulation based evidence for portfolio-style allocation in student study time"

• Nitin Agarwal and Tope Falade. "Toxic Unity Beyond Borders: Analyzing Behavioral Homogenization Across Global South Digital Protests"

• Nitin Agarwal and Muhammad Hassam Aslam Khan. "Tracking Competing Narratives in the Russia--Ukraine Conflict Using Stance-Aware Epidemiological Models"

• Nitin Agarwal and Richa Pokhrel. "Grievance Expression and Collective Discourse in Instagram Protest Communication: Evidence from the 2025 Indonesian Protests"

• Mitchelle Ashley Creado. "SignFarm: Community-Driven Agricultural Sign Coinage with LLM Grounding"

• Frederick Hayes. "Internal Control Regimes for Behavior Representation in Partially Observable Agents"

• Maria Laricheva, Yan Liu, Vered Shwartz and Amery Wu. "Investigating the Presence of Gender Bias in Masked Language Models Trained with Counselling Data"

• Guljannat Huseynli and Erika Frydenlund. "Objective Functions as Governance Choices: An Agent-Based Exploration of Efficiency and Equity in Humanitarian AI"

• Pouya Shaeri, Yasaman Mohammadpour and Ariane Middel. "ClimateEmote: Multi-Task Sentiment, Emotion, Misinformation, and Stance Detection in Climate-Related Social Media"

• Jeongkeun Shin, Ellen Kim, Clarissa Chau, L. Richard Carley and Kathleen Carley. "Emotion-Based Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Hybrid Cyber Attack Scenarios"