<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Dear Colleague,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">You are all invited to attend the 8th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2021) that will take place on October 29-31, 2021 (fully virtual).</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">We will have a great program: two tutorials (1- </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sentiment Analysis and 2- Assessing digital skills and competencies), long and short papers, and two keynote talks by Dr. Ingmar Weber on Big data usage to monitor sustainable development and Prof. Christian Montag on the strategies to combat Internet Use Disorders. The full program is available below.</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Full Program: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Zw_4Cvl1j7SNnYD7tXhRtZ?domain=eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">http://besc-conf.org/2021/agenda.html</span></a></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The BESC organizers are happy to announce that we secured funding to waive the registration fees.</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Registration link: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EUboCxnglNCM5721iwfVEn?domain=eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/besc/registration</span></a></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Conference page: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sq48CzvknNUgYk0MUwhItr?domain=eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">http://besc-conf.org/2021/index.html</span></a></font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(32,31,30);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best Regards,</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Raian Ali, HBKU, Qatar</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</font></p></div>