<div dir="ltr"><div>Apologize for the duplicated circulation.</div><div><br></div><div>==== Proceedings will be published by IEEE and indexed by EI, SCI-indexed journal special issue opportunities ====</div><div>==== BESC'2014 is in cooperation with ACM SIGKDD and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. ====</div>
<div><br></div><div>2014 IEEE International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC'2014)</div><div>30 October - 1 November, 2014, Shanghai, China</div><div>Website: <a href="http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/besc14/">http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/besc14/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>================</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission deadline: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5 July, 2014</div><div>Notification of acceptance: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10 August, 2014</div>
<div>Final Camera-ready papers due: <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>30 August, 2014</div><div> </div><div>Submissions</div><div>============</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc14">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc14</a></div>
<div> </div><div>Publications</div><div>=============</div><div>All accepted papers will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE. Selected top quality papers after presented in the conference will be invited for extension and publication in the special issue of international journals, including IEEE Intelligent Systems, WWWJ, and Neurocomputing.The accepted workshop papers will be published through Springer CCIS series, which will be indexed by EI.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Introduction</div><div>=============</div><div><br></div><div>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</div>
<div>(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; </div>
<div><br></div><div>(2) effectively representing, modeling, analyzing, simulating, evaluating and managing behavioral, economic, social and cultural phenomena, factors, characteristics, dynamics, evolution, consequence and knowledge; </div>
<div><br></div><div>(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; </div>
<div><br></div><div>(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 </div>
<div><br></div><div>(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. </div><div><br></div><div>
BESC'2014 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><div>Scope and Topics</div><div>=================</div><div><br></div><div>BESC'2014 encourages topics related but not limited to:</div><div>(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;</div>
<div><br></div><div>(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 </div>
<div><br></div><div>(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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Submission Guidelines</div><div>=====================</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of seven (7) pages, in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Press Proceedings Author Guidelines: <a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> ). All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to conference topics of interest, originality, significance, and clarity. Author names and affiliations must not appear in the submissions, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Press.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Advisory Committee</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>* Usama Fayyad <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Barclays, United Kingdom</div><div>* Masaru Kitsuregawa<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Tokyo, Japan</div>
<div>* Rao Kotagiri<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Melbourne, Australia</div><div>* Vipin Kumar<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Minnesota, USA</div><div>* Bengchin Ooi<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>National University of Singapore</div>
<div>* Xin Yao<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Birmingham, UK</div><div>* Philip S Yu<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>* Longbing Cao <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div>* Shu-Heng Chen<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>National Chengchi University, Taiwan</div>
<div>* Geun-Sik Jo<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Inha University, South Korea</div><div>* Irwin King<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chinese University of Hong Kong</div><div>* Ee-Ping Lim<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Singapore Management University, Singapore</div>
<div>* Huan Liu<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Arizona State University, USA</div><div>* Wolfgan Nejdl <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany</div><div>* Yong Shi<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div>
<div>* V.S. Subrahmanian <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Maryland, USA</div><div>* Feiyue Wang<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div>* Guandong Xu<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organizing Committee</div><div>====================</div><div><br></div><div>General Chairs</div><div>* V.S. Subrahmanian<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Maryland, USA</div>
<div>* Shu-Heng Chen<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>National Chengchi University, Taiwan</div><div><br></div><div>Conference Chairs</div><div>* Osmar Zaiane<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Alberta, Canada<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div>
<div>* Herve Martin<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France</div><div>* Geun-Sik Jo<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Inha University, South Korea</div>
<div>* Jian Cao <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee Chairs</div><div>* Huan Liu <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Arizona State University, USA</div>
<div>* Guandong Xu <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div>* Wolfgang Nejdl <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany </div>
<div><br></div><div>Local Arrangement Chairs<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>* Hongming Cai <span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div><div>* Wei Liu<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs </div><div>* Bo An<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</div><div>* Ya Zhang<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div>* Jie Wang<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Stanford University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Tutorial Chairs </div><div>* Jiuyong Li<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>South Australia University, Australia</div>
<div>* Jaideep Srivastava<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Minnesota</div><div><br></div><div>Panel Chairs </div><div>* Gabriella Pasi<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Universitidi Milano Bicocca, Italy</div>
<div>* Ee-Peng Lim<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Singapore Management University, Singapore</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsorship Chairs<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>* Guangtao Xue<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>* Xiaohui Tao<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Southern Queensland, Australia</div><div>* Xin Wang<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Calgary, Canada</div>
<div>* Xiaodong Yue<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai University</div><div><br></div><div>Registration/Finance Chair</div><div>* Qi Gu<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Publication Chair </div><div>* Frank Jiang<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney</div><div><br></div><div>Technical Sponsors</div><div>===================</div>
<div><br></div><div>* ACM SIGKDD </div><div>* IEEE Computational Intelligence Society </div><div>* Springer</div><div>* IEEE Task Force on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing</div><div>* IEEE NSW Section</div>
<div>* ACM SIGKDD Australia and New Zealand Chapter</div><div><br></div><div>Conference organizers</div><div>======================</div><div><br></div><div>* University of Technology Sydney, Australia</div><div>* Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div>* Stanford University, USA</div><div>* University Joseph Fourier, France</div><div><br><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" style="width:396px;height:18px;max-height:18px;background-color:#f5f5f5;padding:5px;color:#222;font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid #ddd">
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