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<p class="MsoNormal">=== Sorry for cross-posting ===</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*** BSIC2013: Call for Papers (Due on April 06, 2013) ***</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">====================================================================================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 2013 International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing (BSIC2013)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">URL: <a href="http://bsic2013.bsic.info/">http://bsic2013.bsic.info/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission System: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsic2013">
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsic2013</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Held in conjunction with </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2013), August 3-8, 2013, Beijing, China</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">URL: <a href="http://ijcai13.org/">http://ijcai13.org/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Accepted papers will be published through Springer LNAI series proceedings. Selected best quality papers
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from the workshop will be recommended for publication in World Wide Web Journal (SCI-Indexed) and other
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">top international journals after substantial extension (to be confirmed)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">====================================================================================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper Submission Deadline: April 6, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author Notification: May 20, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-Ready Deadline: May 30, 2013</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: August 3-4, 2013
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop Scope</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Behavior and social science are increasingly recognized as a key component in business intelligence and problem-solving. Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing (BSIC) has been emerged as a new scientific field that studies effective
methodologies, techniques and technical tools for representing, modeling, analyzing, understanding and managing human behaviors and social characteristics. Unlike traditional behavior and social science, which mainly focuses on qualitative and explicit behavior
and social appearance and drivers, BSIC intends to support explicit behavioral and societal involvement through a conversion from transactional entity spaces to behavior/social feature spaces, through a better understanding of interactions between users and
computing systems and better modeling of social concepts like trust, credibility, privacy, and, and influence, further genuine analysis of native behavior/social patterns and impacts, and the facilitation of deployment of information technologies in various
socially-centric application domains. A typical BSIC process consists of key components including behavior/social modeling and representation, behavior/social data construction, behavior/social impact modeling, behavior/social pattern analysis and utilization,
and behavior/social interplay with information technologies. Some popular examples of BSIC include web usage and user preference analysis, collective intelligence and crowd behavior, credit evaluation, exceptional behavior analysis of terrorist and criminals,
and trading pattern analysis of investors in capital markets.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recent years have witnessed increasing research attention on behavior/social-oriented analyses including behavioral and social interaction and network, behavioral/social patterns, behavioral/social impacts, the formation of behavioral/social-oriented
groups and collective intelligence, and behavioral/social intelligence emergence. This trend raises the need for launching the International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics and Computing (BSIC). The main aim of the proposed workshop is to continue
the success and impact achieved. It will become a premier forum, in which BSIC is promoted as a serious and important research forum by its own with relevant challenging problems and emerging issues to be formally addressed, and we would like to merge the
contributing taskforce from these two communities into a synergy of excellence, to create a new disciplinary area with increased scientific profile and influence. BSIC’2013 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, social and psychological sciences with the objectives to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational
and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BSIC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topics of Interest</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(1) Foundational Methods</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Complex sequence analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Temporal-sequential pattern mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Impact-oriented behavior and social mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Event/activity/action mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Agent-based data mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Frequent pattern mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Domain-driven behavior mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior data visualization</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Algorithms and protocols inspired by societies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(2) Behavior/Social Modeling and Representation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Computational models of behavior and social informatics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior and social informatics theories</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Abstract behavior model</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior life cycles</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior structure understanding</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior detection and extraction </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Sequential behavior modeling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Parallel/concurrent behavior modeling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Distributed behavior modeling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior and social dynamics </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Temporal-spatial relationship modeling </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior and social privacy processing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Modeling social conventions and context</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(3) Behavior/Social Pattern Analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Frequent behavior/social pattern </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social classification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social clustering</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Demographic-behavioral combined pattern </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Interaction pattern analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Stream behavior/social pattern</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Cultural patterns and representation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social media mining and intelligence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Trust, privacy, risk and credibility in social contexts</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social behavior analysis and synthesis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(4) Behavior/Social Impact Analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Positive/negative impact modeling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Risk, benefit, cost and trust of behavior </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• High-impact behavior identification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Impact-transferred behavior pattern</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Cause-effect analysis </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Exceptional/outlier behavior </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Critical event detection and prediction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Critical group detection and prediction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social influence analysis and ranking</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social cognition and social intelligence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Impact on people activities in complex and dynamic environments</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Impact of technology on socio-economic</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social influence and diffusion models of social influence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social choice mechanism in e-society</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(5) Behavior /Social Emergence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social self-organization</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social evolution </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social impact emergence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social group emergence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social mobility</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining and representation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Emotional intelligence and influence process</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social blog, micro-blog, Internet forum</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(6) Behavior/Social Network</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Intrinsic mechanisms inside a network</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Convergence and divergence of associated behavior
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Hidden group and community formation and identification</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social network topological structures
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Linkage formation and identification </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Group formation and evolution</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Community detection</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Community behavior analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(7) Behavior/Social Simulation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior convergence and divergence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior learning and adaptation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Group behavior formation and evolution</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social simulation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social interaction and linkage</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior/social impact emergence</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Critical event replay</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Emergent event detection and signaling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Handheld/mobile social computing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(8) Behavior/Social Presentation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Rule-based behavior presentation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Flow visualization</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Graph-based behavior/social modeling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Sequence presentation and visualization</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Dynamic/hidden group presentation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Visual behavior/social network</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social system design and architecture</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Opinion dynamics, human and social dynamics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Markey dynamics and crowd behavior</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(9) Application-Oriented Behavior/Social Analysis and Mining</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Web usage mining and interpretation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Customer analytics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Recommender system and personalization</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Fraud detection</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Misuse and anomaly detection</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Human-computer interactions</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• AI games</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Facial expression and human gesture analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Computational linguistics</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Intelligent decision support system</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Student learning behaviors in intelligent tutoring system</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Criminal behavior analysis </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social networking behavior analysis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Behavior analysis in video data.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Enterprise process and workflow analysis </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Design and analysis of social/collaborative Web applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Human-Computer interaction and interface design</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Socio-economic systems and applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Social computing applications and case studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper Submissions</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submitted papers must be formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted electronically through the BSIC 2013 paper submission site. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and electronic templates are available on the IJCAI
2013 website: <a href="http://ijcai13.org/files/ijcai13.zip">http://ijcai13.org/files/ijcai13.zip</a>. Submission is only electronic using the BSIC b2013 paper submission software linked here (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsic2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsic2013</a>).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paper Length and Format</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submitted technical papers must be no longer than six pages, including all figures but excluding references, and must be formatted according to posted IJCAI 2013 guidelines. References can be up to one page. Papers must be formatted for
letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper, in double-column format with a 10pt font. Electronic templates for the LaTeX typesetting package, as well as a Word template, that conform to IJCAI 2013 guidelines will be made available at the conference website in December 2012.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors are required to submit their electronic papers in PDF format. Files in Postscript (ps) or any other format will not be accepted.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publication</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Accepted papers will be published through Springer LNAI series proceedings. Selected best quality papers from the workshop will be recommended for publication in World Wide Web Journal (SCI-Indexed) and other top international journals
after substantial extension (to be confirmed)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">==========================</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Organization Committee</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steering Committee</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Longbing Cao, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, The university of British Columbia, Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wolfgan Niegel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">General Chair</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wolfgan Niegel, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Program Co-Chairs:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ee-peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Organizing Chair:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Supported by</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IEEE Task Force on Behavior and Social Informatics (<a href="http://www.bsic.info/">http://www.bsic.info/</a>)</p>
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