[agents] 2nd CfPs: 2014 Int'l Conf. on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2014)

[Xiaohui Tao]

*****  Call for papers *****

2014 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2014)
30 October 2 November, 2014, Shanghai, China
Website: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/besc14/

Important Dates
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Paper Submission deadline: 	5 June, 2014
Notification of acceptance: 	10 August, 2014
Final Camera-ready papers due: 	30 August, 2014
    
Submissions
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https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc14
    
Publications
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer through LNAI series. Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the conference for extension and publication in the special issue of some international journals.

Introduction
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Behavioral, economic and socio-cultural aspects are increasingly recognized as key components in business intelligence and problem-solving. Accordingly, Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC) has been emerged as  new scientific fields that study effective methodologies, techniques and tools for
(1) deeply understanding cognitive and psychological capacities of human beings, and cultural, economic, social, political, legal, online, social media, spatial, environmental, and biological factors, systems, organizations, and institutions; 

(2) effectively representing, modeling, analyzing, simulating, evaluating and managing behavioral, economic, social and cultural phenomena, factors, characteristics, dynamics, evolution, consequence and knowledge; 

(3) developing quantitative and computational methodologies, approaches, algorithms, tools and systems towards a deeper understanding of dynamics and evolution, relations and interactions, structures and distributions, rules, patterns and exceptions, effects and consequences, and intelligence and emergence in individual and collective BESC entities, systems and organizations; 

(4) delivering a deep modeling, analysis and learning of social concepts including trust, credibility, privacy and influence, and intrinsic behavior/economic/socio-cultural patterns and impacts; and 

(5) showcasing the intellectual, value, process, and impact contexts that govern the development and use of science and technology into various BESC applications and domains. 
BESCí2014 aims to increase potential collaborations and partnerships by bringing together academic researchers and industry practitioners from data mining, statistics and analytics, business and marketing, finance and politics, and behavioral, economic, social and psychological sciences with the objectives to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.
    
Scope and Topics
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BESC'014 encourages topics related but not limited to:
(1) Computational foundations: including statistical/mathematical/logic/evolutionary/formal methodologies, models and theories for engineering, representing, visualizing, analyzing, modeling, evaluating and managing cognitive, behavioral, economic, political, online, social media-based, and socio-cultural phenomena, factors, interactions, relations, structures, contexts and situations, systems and organizations; and for understanding their formation and evolution, dynamics, self-organization, mobility, learning and adaptation, change and emergence, influence, conventions, trust, norms, protocols, roles, responsibilities, utility, effects, privacy, risk, security, and decision-making and formation processes;

(2) Techniques and approaches: including specific tools, algorithms, models, systems, evaluation metrics for acquisition, extraction, detection, summarization, knowledge representation, visualization, classification, regression, clustering, pattern discovery, factor/event/effect analysis, reasoning, relation/structure/distribution analysis, collaborations/conflicts/negotiation mechanisms and crowding/community formation/grouping and diffusion understanding of BESC related systems and organizations; and for collecting, analyzing, managing and utilizing BESC-related networking, textural, imaging, sequential, spatio-temporal, multimedia, graphic and streaming data; and 

(3) Applications and systems:  including innovative use and showcases, simulation and visualization of BESC problems not limited to networking, socialization, globalization, exception and risk management, crisis analysis and management, security, compliance, recommendation, retrieval and search, innovation, and decision-support. 

Submission Guidelines
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A submission of up to 16 pages in the Springer's LNCS format is encouraged. Please follow the Springer's guidelines and technical instructions for the preparation of contributions. (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0)

Advisory Committee
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* Usama Fayyad 		ChoozOn Corporation, USA
* Masaru Kitsuregawa	University of Tokyo, Japan
* Rao Kotagiri		University of Melbourne, Australia
* Bengchin Ooi		National University of Singapore
* Xin Yao		University of Birmingham, UK
* Philip S Yu		University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Steering Committee
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* Huan Liu		Arizona State University, USA
* Irwin King		Chinese University of Hong Kong
* Wolfgan Nejdl 	Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany
* V.S. Subrahmanian 	University of Maryland, USA
* Shu-Heng Chen		National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Yong Shi		Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Feiyue Wang		Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Geun-Sik Jo		Inha University, South Korea
* Longbing Cao 		University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Ee-Ping Lim		Singapore Management University, Singapore
* Guandong Xu		University of Technology, Sydney, Australia


Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
* V.S. Subrahmanian	University of Maryland, USA
* Shu-Heng Chen	National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Conference Chairs
* Osmar Zaiane		University of Alberta, Canada	
* Herve Martin		Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
* Geun-Sik Jo		Inha University, South Korea
* Jian Cao 		Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Program Committee Chairs
* Huan Liu 		Arizona State University, USA
* Guandong Xu 		University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
* Wolfgang Nejdl 	Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany 

Local Arrangement Chairs	
* Hongming Cai 		Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
* Wei Liu		University of Technology, Sydney

Workshop Chairs 
* Bo An			Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
* Ya Zhang		Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
* Jie Wang		Stanford University, USA

Tutorial Chairs 
* Jiuyong Li		South Australia University, Australia
* Jaideep Srivastava	University of Minnesota

Panel Chairs 
* Gabriella Pasi	Universit‡ di Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Ee-Peng Lim		Singapore Management University, Singapore

Sponsorship Chairs		
* Guangtao Xue		Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Publicity Chairs
* Xiaohui Tao		University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Xin Wang		University of Calgary, Canada
* Xiaodong Yue		Shanghai University

Registration/Finance Chair
* Qi Gu			Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Publication Chair 
* Frank Jiang		University of Technology, Sydney

Technical Sponsors
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* IEEE Computational Intelligence Society  
* ACM SIGKDD Australian and New Zealand Chapter  
* Springer

Sponsors
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* University of Technology Sydney
* Shanghai Jiaotong University
* Stanford University



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