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</span><span style="font-size:17pt; font-family:Avenir,sans-serif">July 10 (Tuesday) - 13 (Friday), 2018</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt; font-family:"Avenir",sans-serif; color:#222222">, </span></p>

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<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">New Deadline: 1</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">1</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">-January 2018</span></span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>

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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Final Version Submission: </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:red">

</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">26-February-2018</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:red"></span></p>

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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">14-May-2018</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:red"></span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Final Version Submission for Short Papers:  18-June 2018</span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student

 Paper Award. Top papers will be invited to publish an extended version in a special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">All accepted regular papers will be published in our archival physical proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume.

</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Short papers are intended for late breaking findings, research at a more conceptual stage, and other research not appropriate as a regular paper. Accepted short papers will be published only in

 our on-line non-archival proceedings.</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">The conference will include the following special sessions:</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""> July 10

</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">(first day of the conference)</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Graduate Consortium: July 13<br>

Poster Session: At Conference Poster Night <br>

Technology Demos: During Conference lunch times and Poster Night <br>

Challenge Problem Evaluation: At Conference Poster Night</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">Funding Panel & Cross-Fertilization Roundtable*</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">*</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666"> Previous SBP conferences have included a Cross-Fertilization and/or Funding

 Panels. The purpose of these panels is to help participants become better acquainted with people outside of their discipline and provide an opportunity for conference participants to interact with program managers from various federal funding agencies.</span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">See our webpage (</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a href="http://sbp-brims.org/" id="LPlnk944789" previewremoved="true">http://sbp-brims.org</a><span style="color:#666666">)

 for format details. For any questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email at </span></span><a href="mailto:sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:rgb(66,139,202)">sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">.</span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">SBP-BRIMS is an interdisciplinary conference integrating methods from the computational sciences and the social sciences.

 Submissions are solicited on research issues, theories, methodologies, and applications. Late-breaking research is encouraged. Historical topics of interest have included the following, however this is by no means exhaustive or exclusive:</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Avenir",sans-serif; color:#222222">Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Group formation, interaction, and evolution<br>

* Collective action, public opinion representation, and governance<br>

* Cultural patterns, representation, and psycho-cultural situation awareness<br>

* Social conventions, social contexts and influence processes<br>

* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Models of reasoning and decision making</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking<br>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Data mining and analytics on social media for social and human dynamics<br>

* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks<br>

* Detection and inference over network topologies and changes over time<br>

* Analysis of high-dimensional networks, link formations, and link types</span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Evaluation, modeling and simulation of military capacities and political influence<br>

* Impact of technological innovation on influence and information spread<br>

* Group representation and profiling, including extremist behaviors and policies </span>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">* Cybersecurity, cyber-policy, and attribution</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">* Methods of collating open source data into information describing events and activities</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Avenir",sans-serif; color:#222222">Applications for Health and Well-being</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt; background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Social network analysis to understand health behavior<br>

* Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making<br>

* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br>

* Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma)

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* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666"></span></p>

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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Model federation, validation and integration<br>

* Evolutionary computing and optimization</span></p>

<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#666666">* Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation</span></p>

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