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<p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SBP-BRiMS 2019</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoTitleCxSpMiddle" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation
in Modeling and Simulation </span></b></p>
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July 9-12, 2019, </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://sbp-brims.org/</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">#sbpbrims</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">CALL FOR PAPERS:</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">SBP-BRiMS is an interdisciplinary computational social science conference focused on both modeling complex socio-technical systems and using computational techniques to reason about and study
complex socio-technical systems.<span style=""> </span>The participants in this conference take part in forming the conversation on how computation is shaping the modern world and helping us to better understand and reason about human behavior. Both papers
addressing basic research and those addressing applied research are accepted.<span style="">
</span>All methodological approaches are encouraged; however, the vast majority of papers use computer simulation, network analysis or machine learning as the method of choice in addressing human social and behavioral activities.<span style="">
</span>At the conference, these paper presentations are complemented by data science challenge problems, demonstrations of new technologies, and a government funding panel.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:</span></p>
<h2 style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution<br>
* Collective action and governance<br>
* Information, belief, technology of disease diffusion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Public opinion representation, identification and modeling<br>
* Information diffusion<br>
* Psycho-cultural situation awareness</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Models of reasoning and decision making<br>
* Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Intelligent tutoring systems</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Human behavior issues in model federations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Validation and analysis techniques for social behavioral models</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Information, Systems, & Network Science</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Data mining on social media platforms<br>
* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks<br>
* Inference of network topologies and changes over time or space<br>
* Analysis of link formations and link types<br>
* Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks<br>
* Analysis of high-dimensional networks<br>
* Analytics for social and human dynamics<br style="">
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<h2 style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Military & Intelligence Applications</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Group formation and evolution in the political context<br>
* Networks and political influence<br>
* Group representation and profiling<br>
* Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Cyber and attribution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Social Cyber-Security applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Social simulation for military training</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Cyber diplomacy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities</span></p>
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<h2 style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Applications for Health and Well-being</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Data science applied to health behavior<br>
* </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* 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<br style="">
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<h2 style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Model federation, integration, verification, or validation<br>
* Evolutionary computing and optimization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#F8F8F8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">* Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">CHALLENGE PROBLEMS:</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">There will be two data science challenges, one on opioids and one on disinformation.
<span style=""> </span>Additional details are posted on the conference website, </span>
<a href="http://sbp-brims.org/challenge" id="LPlnk148004" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black; text-decoration:none">SBP-BRiMS.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">/challenge. The deadline
for submissions this year will be 17-May-2019.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Regular Paper Submission:
<b style="">22-February-2019<br>
</b>Author Notification: <b style="">22-March-2019</b><br>
Final Version Submission for Regular Papers: <b style="">12-April-2019</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">Challenge Problem Paper Submission:
<b style="">17-May-2019</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">All accepted papers require confirmation of conference registration when uploading final versions. Each accepted paper requires a separate registration.
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All regular papers will be a maximum of 10 pages including all figures, tables and references. See http://sbp-brims.org/cfp for more information on formatting</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AWARDS:</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; color:black">All papers are qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers with student first authors will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Those receiving these awards will be invited to publish
an extended version in a special issue of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.<span style="">
</span>Submission of a paper to the conference means that the authors consent to send an extended version to the special issue, should they receive one of the awards. Papers receiving the best paper awards, the best student paper award, winner of the opioid
challenge, and winner of the disinformation challenge will then send an extended version of their paper for publication in the best of SBP-BRiMS 2019 special issue.</span></p>
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