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Date: 2021-04-21 08:38:30+00:00
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz@gmail.com>
Subject: First Call for papers - The 8th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2021) - Doha, Qatar
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 8th International Conference on Behavioral and
Social Computing (BESC 2021)
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, November 9-11, 2021
Conference website: http://besc-conf.org/
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The 8th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing
(BESC 2021) will take place in Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar,
9-11 November 2021. 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.
The BESC Organizing Committee invites submissions of applied or
theoretical research and application-oriented papers on any below
topics as well as two special sessions and a Doctoral Symposium track.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Natural Language Processing
- Web mining and its social interpretations
- Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
- Opinion mining and social media analytics
- Credibility of online content
- Computational Linguistics
- Mining big social data
- Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
* Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications
- Computational models of social phenomena
- Social behavior
- Social network analysis
- Semantic web
- Collective intelligence
- Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
- Social recommendation
- Social influence and social contagions
- Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
- Forecasting of social phenomena
- Science and technology studies approaches to computational
social science
- Social media and health behaviors
- Social psychology and personality
- New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social
science
* Digital Humanities
- Digital media
- Digital humanities
- Digital games and learning
- Digital footprints and privacy
- Crowd dynamics
- Digital arts
- Digital healthcare
- Activity streams and experience design
- Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming,
etc.)
* Information Management and Information Systems (IS)
- Decision analytics
- E-Business
- Decision analytics
- Computational finance
- Societal impacts of IS
- Human behavior and IS
- IS in healthcare
- IS Security and privacy
- IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts
- Service science and IS
* Behavior and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics
- Behavior change
- Positive technology
- Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
- Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation
- Web dynamics and personalization
- Privacy, perceived security and trust
- Technology and Wellbeing
- Ethics of computational research on human behavior
This year, we also welcome submissions to two special sessions and a
Doctoral Symposium track:
* Special Session 1 - Covid-19 and Social Computing
We call for papers focusing on the relation between Computing and Social
Psychology in the context of Covid-19. This includes papers relating to
usage of social media and all aspects of social behaviour in the online
world in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
* Special Session 2 - Psychology for Cyber Security
Papers for this session will focus on how psychology can be applied to
cybersecurity. A wide range of aspects of this topic are welcomed, which
encompass understanding the motivations of hackers and the social context
in which they operate, and how psychology can be applied to protect
individuals and organisations from cyber attacks.
* Doctoral Symposium track
The BESC 2021 Doctoral Symposium aims to provide a supportive environment
that enables doctoral students to get constructive feedback on their
research. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their work with
experienced members in the interdisciplinary field of behavioral and social
computing. The BESC doctoral symposium covers the same research topics as
the conference. The Doctoral Symposium track has its own important dates,
please consult the Doctoral Symposium track website for more details.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: 30 Jul 2021
Acceptance notification: 15 Sep 2021
Conference date: 9-11 Nov 2021
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
The paper submission system is available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2021
All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to BESC 2021, originality, significance and
clarity. Please note:
* Submissions are not anonymous (Single Blind Review process)
* All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are
available from
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
* All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper
submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2021 accepts research
papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium
papers (4 pages).
* The page count above excludes the references.
* Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that
have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal
or a conference with proceedings.
* Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected
based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and
clarity of presentation.
* Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that,
should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register
and attend the conference to present the work.
All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI.
Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected
for extension and publication in several special issues of international
journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence, and
Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer).
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CONTACTS
All inquiries about the conference, including submissions, can be
directed to the organising committee:
ieee.besc@gmail.com
For inquiries specific to the special sessions, please contact:
Emily Arden-Close <eardenclose@bournemouth.ac.uk>
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Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar
tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992
wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building
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