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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SBP-BRiMS 2021</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2021 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation </span></b></p>
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<div style="margin:0px 0px 10px; box-sizing:border-box"><span style="margin:0px">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. 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. 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. At the conference, these paper presentations are complemented by data science challenge problems, demonstrations of new technologies, and a government funding panel.<br>
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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<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/10588" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:transparent; color:rgb(66,139,202)">Computational
and Mathematical Organization Theory</a></em>.</p>
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Regular Paper Submission:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold"><font color="red" style="box-sizing:border-box">16-April-2021 (Midnight EST)</font></strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Author Notification:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold"><font color="red" style="box-sizing:border-box">06-May-2021</font></strong></strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Camera-ready Submission (Regular Papers):<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">16-May-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Working/Late-breaking Paper:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">23-May-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Doctoral Consortium:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">23-May-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Tutorial, Demo Submission:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">23-May-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Acceptance Notification:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">14-June-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Challenge Submission:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">23-May-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Challenge Notification:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">14-June-2021</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Final Video and PowerPoint Submission:<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">28-June-2021</strong></p>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021sbpbrims" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Submit your paper here.</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>Until
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Note</strong><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">, all papers undergo a rigorous peer review process for presentation in the plenary,
regular, or poster sessions. All papers accepted to the plenary sessions will be published in the archival proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume. Only Regular papers will be evaluated for either the archival or online proceedings. The remaining tracks will
be published online for 1 year on our non-archival conference website. Each accepted paper requires confirmation of conference registration and requires a separate registration prior to being considered for a plenary session (oral or poster).</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">
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The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines.<span> </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:transparent; color:rgb(66,139,202)">View
sample LaTeX2e and WORD files</a>. All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:bold">10 pages</strong>. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and references.</p>
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Special Track on Human-Agent Teaming </h3>
<span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">This year we are soliciting papers for a special workshop on human-agent teaming (or human-AI teaming) to be held during the conference. When submitting your paper in EasyChair please
whether you want to be considered for this track.</span>
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Special Track on COVID-19 & Validation</h3>
<span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">This year we are soliciting papers for a special workshop on the COVID-19 pandemic to be held during the conference. We are particularly interested in papers focused on validation studies
of models and tools used for COVID-19 response efforts. Validation studies evaluate the influence of important threats to validity, such as missing data, measurement error, and confounding. Validation studies are particularly important for assessing the utility
of models and tools outside of similar settings (e.g., application of models and tools to the next pandemic or global disaster). When submitting your paper in EasyChair please indicate whether you want to be considered for this track.</span>
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CHALLENGE PROBLEM:</h3>
<span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">The conference expects to announce a computational challenge as in previous years. Additional details will be posted in December. Follow us on<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SBPBRiMS/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Facebook</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">,<span> </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/sbpbrims" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Twitter</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>and<span> </span></span><a href="http://linkedin.com/company/sbpbrims/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">LinkedIn</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>to
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PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL SESSIONS:</h3>
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FUNDING PANEL & CROSS-FERTILIZATION ROUNDTABLES:</h3>
<span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important">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, such as the<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">National
Science Foundation</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(NSF),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nih.gov/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">National
Institutes of Health</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(NIH),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.onr.navy.mil/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Office
of Naval Research</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(ONR),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/afosr/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Air
Force Office of Scientific Research</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(AFOSR),<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.dtra.mil/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Defense
Threat Reduction Agency</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(DTRA),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(DARPA),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.aro.army.mil/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">Army
Research Office</a><span style="background-color:rgb(248,248,248); display:inline!important"><span> </span>(ARO),<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.nga.mil/Pages/Default.aspx" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box; background:rgb(248,248,248); color:rgb(66,139,202)">National
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Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:</p>
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Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling Agent-based modeling</h3>
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<li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Collective action and governance</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Cultural patterns & representation</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Social conventions, social contexts and processes</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Influence process, recognition, and diffusion</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Public opinion representation, identification and modeling</li><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box; font-family:Avenir,Lato,sans-serif; font-weight:280; line-height:1.1; color:rgb(34,34,34); margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:10px; font-size:24px; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">
Psycho-cultural situation awareness</h3>
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Military, Cyber, & Intelligence Applications</h3>
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Health and Well-being</h3>
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<li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Social network analysis to understand health behavior</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases
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Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community</h3>
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