<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello all,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The latest CFP for SBP-BRiMS is below. If you have any questions regarding SBP-BRiMS 2017 (or would like to get more involved in the meeting itself, please feel free to contact me.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Some of this is cut short for your convenience, the full CFP is </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Chris</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">------</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">SBP-BRiMS 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">2017 International Conference on Social Computing, </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS)</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">July 5</span></span> (Wed) -- 8 (Sat), 2017, Lehman Auditorium, George </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Washington University, Washington DC, USA</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Conference Website: <a href="http://sbp-brims.org/" target="_blank">http://sbp-brims.org</a></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">receiving these awards will be invited to publish an extended version in a </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Theory.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">IMPORTANT DATES:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Regular Paper Abstract Submission : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">February 22</span></span> (Wed), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Regular Paper Submission                 : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 1</span></span> (Wed), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Author Notification<span class="gmail-m_-2903623236300689453Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>                             : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 24</span></span> (Fri), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Final Version Submission                   : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">April 7</span></span> (Fri), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Note, all regular papers will be evaluated for: presentation in plenary, </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">presentation in regular session, presentation as poster, or no presentation. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All accepted papers will be published in the physical proceedings – the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Springer LNCS volume.  This volume is considered archival.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Challenge Problem Submission       : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">May 12</span></span> (Fri), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Those submitting a response to the challenge are to submit a poster and a </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">short paper by this date. All accepted papers will be published in the online </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">proceedings only and will not be included in the Springer LNCS volume.  </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The online proceedings is not considered archival.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Posters & Demos Short Paper Submission : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">May 12</span></span> (Fri), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This short paper submission is intended for late breaking results, </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">technology demos, and those papers from industry, government or the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">military where constraints prevent the authors from writing a full paper. All </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">short papers (including those describing demos) will be evaluated for: </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">presentation as a poster, or no presentation. All accepted papers will be </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">published in the online proceedings only and will not be included in the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Springer LNCS volume.  The online proceedings is not considered </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">archival.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tutorial Proposal Submission                 : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">March 10</span></span> (Fri), 2017</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conference<span class="gmail-m_-2903623236300689453Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>                                               : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">July 5</span></span>(Wed) to 8(Sat), 2017, </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">                                                                     including the following:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions          : <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">July 10, 2017</span></span> (first day conference)</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Poster Session<span class="gmail-m_-2903623236300689453Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>                                         : At Conference Poster Night</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Technology Demos<span class="gmail-m_-2903623236300689453Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>                                  : Lunch times & Poster Night</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Challenge Problem Evaluation              : At Conference Poster Night</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ABOUT SBP-BRiMS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">conference has grown out of two related meetings: SBP and BRiMS, which </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">were co-located in previous years.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural behavioral </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sciences to the social and health sciences.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">researchers across traditional disciplines to share ideas, discuss research </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please see the SBP-BRiMS17 website for more details. Keynotes and </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">tutorials delivered in the previous SBP and BRiMS meetings are available </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">through  the websites <a href="http://sbp-brims.org/" target="_blank">http://sbp-brims.org</a> and </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://cc.ist.psu.edu/BRIMS2015/" target="_blank">http://cc.ist.psu.edu/<wbr>BRIMS2015/</a> .</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, and applications. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Topics of interests include the following:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Processes</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Group interaction and collaboration</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Group formation and evolution</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Group representation and profiling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Collective action and governance</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Cultural patterns & representation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Social conventions, social contexts and processes</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Influence process and recognition</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Public opinion representation, identification and modeling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Information diffusion</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Psycho-cultural situation awareness</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Behavior Modeling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Models of reasoning and decision making</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Model validation & comparison</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Socio-cultural M&S: team/group/crowd/behavior</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Physical models of human movement</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Performance assessment & skill monitoring/tracking</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Performance prediction/enhancement/<wbr>optimization</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Intelligent tutoring systems</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Knowledge acquisition/engineering</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Human behavior issues in model federations</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Methodological Challenges</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Mathematical foundations</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Verification and validation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Sensitivity analysis</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Matching technique or method to research questions</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Metrics and evaluation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Methodological innovation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Model federation and integration</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Evolutionary computing</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Optimization</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Information, Systems, & Network Science</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Data mining on social media platforms</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Inference of network topologies and changes over time</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Analysis of link formations and link types</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Analysis of high-dimensional networks</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Analytics for social and human dynamics</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Military & Intelligence Applications</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Evaluation, modeling and simulation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Group formation and evolution in the political context</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Technology and flash crowds</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Networks and political influence</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Group representation and profiling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Applications for Health and Well-being</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Social network analysis to understand health behavior</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Modeling of health policy and decision making</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Other Applications</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Viral marketing</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Reasoning about development aid through social modeling</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Reasoning about global educational efforts through cognitive simulation</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The conference solicits three categories of papers:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regular papers (max. 10 pages)</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All topics and authors (academic, government, industry) welcome</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Published in a Springer volume and online. Plenary or poster presentation.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Short papers and Late-breaking results (max. 6 pages)</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All topics and authors welcome.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Published online. Typically a poster presentation.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Demos (2-page abstract, or max. 6 pages)</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Published online. Typically a poster or demo presentation.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paper Formatting Guideline</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">are available at <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/<wbr>computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-</a></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">793341-0. It is not required to submit a cover page. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format.  All submissions for </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">posters, demo-presentations, challenge problem entries and late breaking </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">results should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 6 pages using </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the same format as the regular papers. All accepted entries will be posted </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on the SBP-BRiMS 2017 website. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A selection of authors will be invited to contribute journal versions of their </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">papers to one of two planned special issues of the Springer journal </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">“Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory” and another high-</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">profile journal. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The submission website will be available at: </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=sbpbrims2017</a><wbr>. To register a </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">paper abstract, use the standard Easychair submission website and </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">submit your title and abstract. Until the final paper deadline, you will be </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">able to update your submission. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PUBLICATION</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">program chairs at <a href="mailto:sbpbrims2017@gmail.com" target="_blank">sbpbrims2017@gmail.com</a>.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Several half-day sessions will be offered on the day before the full </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">conference. Sessions will be designed to meet the needs of one of two </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">distinct groups. One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">in computational science; computer science, engineering, and other </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial sessions will be </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">designed for behavioral and social scientists and others (e.g. those with </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">understanding of terminology, theories, and general approaches employed </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">by computationally based fields, especially with respect to modeling </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">approaches.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tutorial proposal submission:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tutorial proposals should be submitted online to </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu</a>.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At minimum, each proposal must contain the following information:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Title of the tutorial.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Description of the tutorial topic and structure.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Expected audience (including the expected backgrounds of the </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">attendees). </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Short bio and contact information of the organizers.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">More details regarding the pre-conference tutorial sessions, including </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">instructors, course content, and registration information will be posted to </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the conference website (SBP-BRiMS.org) as soon as this information </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">becomes available. For further information, please contact </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu</a>.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CHALLENGE:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">previous years.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Additional details will be posted on the conference website.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Previous SBP-BRiMS conferences have included a Cross-fertilization </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Roundtable session or a Funding Panel. The purpose of the cross-</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better acquainted </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">partnering on future SBP-BRiMS-related research collaborations. The </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Funding Panel provides an opportunity for conference participants to </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Participants for the previous funding panels have included representatives </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">from federal agencies, such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, USDA, </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">etc. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BEST PAPER AWARDS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SBP-BRiMS17 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Award. All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">HOTEL AND LOGISTICS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Information on hotel and logistics will be provided at the conference </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">website as it becomes available.</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP-</div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BRiMS Conference website as it becomes available. </div><div style="font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div></div></div>