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