Connectionists: Call for Papers: SBP-BRiMS'2018 -- Social Computing, Behavior/Cultural Modeling, Prediction and Simulation

[Asier Erramuzpe Aliaga]

On behalf of Donald Adjeroh:

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2018 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation
July 10 (Tuesday) - 13 (Friday), 2018,

George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

http://sbp-brims.org

IMPORTANT DATES:

Regular Paper (10-page) Submission: 22-December-2017
Author Notification: 05-February-2018
Final Version Submission:  26-February-2018

Short/Late Breaking Paper (6-page) Submission: 14-May-2018

Tutorial, Demo, and Challenge Problem Submissions: 14-May-2018

Doctoral consortium submissions due: 14-May-2018

Author Notification: 01-June-2018

Final Version Submission for Short Papers:  18-June 2018

Final Version Submission for Challenge Problem: 25-June 2018

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.

All accepted regular papers will be published in our archival physical
proceedings - the Springer LNCS volume. 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.

The conference will include the following special sessions:

Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: July 10 (first day of the conference)

Graduate Consortium: July 13
Poster Session: At Conference Poster Night
Technology Demos: During Conference lunch times and Poster Night
Challenge Problem Evaluation: At Conference Poster Night

Funding Panel & Cross-Fertilization Roundtable*

* 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.



FORMAT AND SUBMISSION:

See our webpage (http://sbp-brims.org) for format details. For any
questions and inquiries concerning submissions, please email at
sbpbrims at andrew.cmu.edu.


CALL FOR PAPERS:

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:

Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling

* Group formation, interaction, and evolution
* Collective action, public opinion representation, and governance
* Cultural patterns, representation, and psycho-cultural situation awareness
* Social conventions, social contexts and influence processes
* Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling

* Models of reasoning and decision making

* Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking

Information, Systems, & Network Science

* Data mining and analytics on social media for social and human dynamics
* Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
* Detection and inference over network topologies and changes over time
* Analysis of high-dimensional networks, link formations, and link types

Military & Intelligence Applications

* Evaluation, modeling and simulation of military capacities and political
influence
* Impact of technological innovation on influence and information spread
* Group representation and profiling, including extremist behaviors and
policies

* Cybersecurity, cyber-policy, and attribution

* Methods of collating open source data into information describing events
and activities

Applications for Health and Well-being

* Social network analysis to understand health behavior
* Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making
* Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
* Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic
diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma)
* Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health

Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community

* Model federation, validation and integration
* Evolutionary computing and optimization

* Education, training, professional development and workforce training in
modeling and simulation


 TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS:

It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be
available on a competitive basis. Additional information will be provided
on the SBP-BRiMS Conference website <http://sbp-brims.org/awards/> as it
becomes available.
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