*** The 4th International Conference on Behavioural, Economic, 
  and Social-Cultural Computing -  16-18 October, 2017 (BESC 2017) ***
      AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland 
      http://www.besc-conf.org/2017 
 
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 
The 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural
Computing (BESC2017)  will  take  place  in  AGH  -  University of Science 
and Technology - Krakow - POLAND, 16-18 October, 2017. 


BESC aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers and industry 
practitioners from data  mining, artificial intelligence, statistics 
and analytics, business and marketing, finance and politics, 
and behavioral, economic, social 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. 

All accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well 
as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services, e.g. EI, DBLP and Thomson Reuters 
(Web of Science). Top quality papers after presented in the conference 
will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues 
of international journals, including World Wide Web Journal (Springer), 
Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer) and Information 
Discovery and Delivery Journal (SSCl-Indexed). 

This edition of the conference takes place in Krakow, at the AGH University 
of Science and Technology. Krakow is the second largest and one  
of the oldest cities in Poland. The city is located in the southern part of Poland 
in the Lesser Poland region. The history of the city dates back to the 7th century. 
Since the Middle Ages Kraków had been the capital of the Polish state until 
the 17th century  and has kept the character of a spiritual capital till the present day.
Poland is a member of the European Union since  May 2004 and Schengen Area since 2007.

The AGH University of Science and Technology is one of the leading technical universities 
in Poland.  The university was established on 20th October, 1919, and was formerly known as 
the University of Mining and Metallurgy. Being mainly a technical school, AGH serves science 
and industry through educating students, the development of academic staff, 
as well as research and development. 


** Important Dates:  **
 Submissions Papers due: 29/05/2017  
 Notification due:       16/07/2017
 Camera-ready due:       02/08/2017
 Conference date:     16-18/10/2017

 
** Areas of interest: **

* Behavioral and Economic Computing 
   - Agent-based modeling
   - Artificial/experimental markets
   - Asset pricing
   - Computational finance
   - Financial crises
   - Monetary policy
   - Optimization
   - Volatility modeling
   - Evolutionary economics

* Digital Humanities
   - Digital media
   - Digital humanities
   - Digital games and learning
   - Digital footprints and privacy
   - Twitter histories creation
   - Crowd dynamics
   - Digital arts
   - Digital Healthcare
   - Mobile technologies
   - Activity streams and experience design   

* Information Management and Systems 
   - Decision Analytics
   - E-Business
   - 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
   
 * Social Computing and Applications
   - Social behavior
   - Social network analysis
   - Semantic web
   - Collective intelligence
   - Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
   - Social commerce and related applications
   - Social recommendation
   - Social data mining

 * User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics
   - Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
   - Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation
   - Web dynamics and personalization
   - Privacy, perceived security and trust

   
** Submissions: **

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis 
of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. 

Papers must be submitted in PDF format through: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2017 
* All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from 
  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html 
* BESC2017 accepts scientific papers (6 pages), position papers (2 pages) 
  and demo papers (2 pages) 
* Submission of a paper is 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. 

  
** Organizing Committee **
  
 Conference Co-Chairs: 
  Jaroslaw Kozlak, Faculty of IET, AGH-UST, Poland 
  Klaus Mueller, Faculty of Humanities, AGH-UST, Poland 
  
 Program Committee Co-Chairs: 
  Yves Demazeau, CNRS, France 
  JianBo Gao, Guangxi University, China 
 
 Steering Committee: 
  Guandong Xu, UTS, Australia 
  (TBA)
 
 
** Address: **
  Jaroslaw Kozlak
  Department of Computer Science 
  Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics 
    and Telecommunications (IET), 
  AGH University of Science and Technology, 
  al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND 
  e-mail: IEEE.BESC@gmail.com
  phone: +48 123283308 

  
** Organisers and Sponsorship: ** 
 AGH University of Science ane Technology, Krakow, Poland 
 UTS University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 IEEE 
 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society