<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear All,</span><br><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Due to multiple requests that we have received, the Committee of BESC 2021 is delighted to announce the extension of the deadline for paper submission. The following is our new timeframe.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Call for Submissions</b></span><br><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="times new roman, serif">The 8th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2021) will be a Virtual Conference, hosted by Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar 29-31 October 2021.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">BESC conference aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioral and psychological sciences could present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Conference Page: </span><a href="http://besc-conf.org/2021/call_for_papers.html" style="color:blue">http://besc-conf.org/2021/call_for_papers.html</a><br><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Keynote Speakers</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">1. </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dr. Ingmar Weber</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Qatar Computing Research Institute, QATAR</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2. </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Prof. Christian Montag</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ulm University, Germany</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Submission Page:</span> <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2021" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(0,126,223);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2021</span></a><br><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b>Important Dates</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Abstract Submission: </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">August 5^th, 2021 [Mandatory]</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Paper Submission: Extended to </span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">August 9th</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, 2021</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> [Strict]</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Paper Acceptance: Sep 15, 2021</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Camera Ready: Oct 05, 2021</span><br><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Conference Date: Oct </span><strong><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal">29-31, 2021</span></strong><br><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Best Regards,</font></p><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China<br>Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<br>Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia<br>Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</font></span><br></div>