[AISWorld] CFP: BESC2015

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                       Call for Papers
The Second International Conference on Behavior, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2015)
October 30 -- November 1, 2015, Nanjing, China

               Website: http://besc2015.njue.edu.cn/
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The 2nd International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2015) will take place in Nanjing, October 30 - November 1, 2015.  BESC aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers and industry practitioners from data mining, 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. BESC is technically sponsored by IEEE CIS and SIGKDD.

All accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and EI Compendex. Authors of high-quality papers will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in a special issues on World Wide Web Journal (SCI-indexed), Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering (SCI-indexed), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Data Science and Deep Analytics (Springer, forthcoming) and Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review (Springer).

We call for papers on any topics of advanced data mining and applications, including but not limited to:
  - Social Computing and Applications: social behavior; social network analysis and mining; semantic web; social intelligence; security, privacy, trust and cryptography in social contexts; social commerce and related applications; social recommendation; data mining.
  - Behavioral and Economic Computing: agent-based modeling; artificial/experimental markets; asset pricing; computational finance; financial crises; monetary policy; optimization; volatility modeling; evolutionary economics.
  - 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.
  - Digital Humanities: digital media; digital humanities; digital games and learning; digital footprints and privacy; Twitter histories creation; crowd dynamics; digital arts; mobile technologies; activity streams and experience design.

Submissions and Important Dates
    - Research Paper Abstract Submission: 10 June 2015 
    - Research Paper Submission: 17 June 2015 
    - Paper Notification of Acceptance: 12 August 2015 
    - Special Session Proposal Submission: 4 April 2015
    - Special Session Proposal Notification: 25 April 2015
Organizing Committee
  Honorary Chairs:
    Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Australia
  General Chairs:
    Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
    Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
  Program Committee Chairs:
    Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan 
    Yves Demazeau, CNRS, France
    Junjie Wu, Beihang University, China
    Michael Gavin, University of South Carolina, USA
  Special Session Chairs:
    Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
    Antoaneta Serguieva, University College London, UK
  Tutorial & Panel Chairs:
    Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
    Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, South Korea
  Industry Forum Chair:
    Jie Wang, Stanford University, USA
  Sponsorship Chair:  
    Guandong Xu, University of Technology, Australia
  BESC Liaison:    
   Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
  Local Arrangement Chair: 
   Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
  Publicity Chairs:
   Frank Jiang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
   Fang Dong, Southeast University, China
   Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
  Registration Chair:
   Changjian Fang, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
  Publication Chair:
   Zhan Bu, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
 Steering Committee:
  Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
  Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
  Wolfgang 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, Australia
  Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore
  Guandong Xu, University of Technology, Australia
  Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
  Jie Wang, Stanford University, USA
 Web Management and Conference Secretary:
  Dr. Zhan Bu, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China
  Email:  besc2015 at 163.com
  Tel: +86-25-8349-3900