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CALL FOR PAPERS--- Deadline approaching
2015 International Conference on
Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP15)
March 31 – April 3, 2015, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA
Conference Website: http://sbp-conference.org/
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Registration Deadline: November 7, 2014
Paper/full text Due: November 14, 2014
Author Notification: December 19, 2014
Camera-ready version: January 16, 2015
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: March 31, 2015
SBP15 Conference (Single Track), April 1-3, 2015
SPONSORED BY:
An up to date list of sponsors will be available on the conference website.
Sponsors for SBP in previous years included:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Army Research Office (ARO)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
ABOUT SBP:
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.
For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please send to
[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and indicate “SBP 2015” in the subject to avoid being trapped by spam filter.
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions:
Four half-day sessions will be offered: two concurrent sessions in the morning and two
concurrent sessions in the afternoon on the day before the full conference. Sessions
will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group will consist
of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science,
engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will
be designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with medical
backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal education in
the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology,
theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based fields, especially
with respect to modeling approaches.
More details regarding the preconference tutorial
sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information will be
posted to the conference website (http://sbp-conference.org/) as soon as this information becomes available.
Note that the plans for the tutorial sessions are in progress and are subject to change.
Please see the SBP15 website for more details. Keynotes and tutorials delivered in
the previous SBP meetings are available through the website http://sbp-conference.org/.
SBP15 CHALLENGE TRACK:
This year's challenge is problem-centered -- participants will be presented with a general problem aligned with the theme of social computing, behavioral-cultural modeling, and prediction and be asked to come up with innovative solutions. We will allow participants to use their own datasets, and will favor those who provide or utilize publicly available datasets in their submission. To this end, we will provide some sample datasets to get participants started. Submissions will be judged by an interdisciplinary panel, and winners will be invited to present their work at SBP. More details on problem, submission website, deadline and awards to come.
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 NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, ARO, USDA, etc.
Best Paper Awards:
SBP15 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All papers are
qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers where the senior author says the principal
author is a student will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
Hotel and Logistics:
Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference website as it becomes available.
http://sbp-conference.org/
Travel Scholarships:
It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available on a
competitive basis. Additional information will be provided at the SBP Conference website
as it becomes available at
http://sbp-conference.org/
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
STEERING COMMITTEE
Nathan D. Bos, Johns Hopkins University
Sun-Ki Chai, University of Hawaii
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Patty Mabry, National Institutes of Health
Dana Nau, University of Maryland
John Salerno, Air Force Research Lab
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla George Mason University
S. Jay Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Jeff Johnson, East Carolina University
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas
Kevin Xu, Technicolor Research
Nathaniel Osgood, University of Saskatchewan
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Fahmida N. Chowdhury, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Rebecca Goolsby, Office of Naval Research
John Lavery, Army Research Lab/Army Research Office
Joseph Lyons, Air Force Research Lab
Patty Mabry, National Institutes of Health
Tisha Wiley, National Institutes of Health
POSTER SESSION CHAIR
Lei Yu, Binghamton University
TUTORIAL CHAIR
Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University
CHALLENGE PROBLEM CHAIRS
Fred Morstatter, Arizona State University
Kang Zhao, University of IowaKenneth Joseph, Carnegie Melon University
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Fahmida N. Chowdhury, NSF
Tisha Wiley, National Institutes of Health
SPONSORSHIP CHAIR
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
WEB CHAIR
Katherine Chuang, Soostone Inc.
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Donald Adjeroh, West Virginia University
Further Information about SBP15
Additional information will be posted at the conference website
http://sbp-conference.org/ as it becomes available.
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