<div dir="ltr">Apologize for the duplicated circulation.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><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/" target="_blank">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 style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>5 July, 2014</div><div>Notification of acceptance: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>10 August, 2014</div>
<div>Final Camera-ready papers due: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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 style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Barclays, United Kingdom</div><div>* Masaru Kitsuregawa<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Tokyo, Japan</div>
<div>* Rao Kotagiri<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Melbourne, Australia</div><div>* Vipin Kumar<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Minnesota, USA</div><div>* Bengchin Ooi<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>National University of Singapore</div>
<div>* Xin Yao<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Birmingham, UK</div><div>* Philip S Yu<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div>* Shu-Heng Chen<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>National Chengchi University, Taiwan</div>
<div>* Geun-Sik Jo<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Inha University, South Korea</div><div>* Irwin King<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Chinese University of Hong Kong</div><div>* Ee-Ping Lim<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Singapore Management University, Singapore</div>
<div>* Huan Liu<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Arizona State University, USA</div><div>* Wolfgan Nejdl <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany</div><div>* Yong Shi<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div>
<div>* V.S. Subrahmanian <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Maryland, USA</div><div>* Feiyue Wang<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div><div>* Guandong Xu<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Maryland, USA</div>
<div>* Shu-Heng Chen<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>National Chengchi University, Taiwan</div><div><br></div><div>Conference Chairs</div><div>* Osmar Zaiane<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Alberta, Canada<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div>* Herve Martin<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France</div><div>* Geun-Sik Jo<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Inha University, South Korea</div>
<div>* Jian Cao <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee Chairs</div><div>* Huan Liu <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Arizona State University, USA</div>
<div>* Guandong Xu <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney, Australia</div><div>* Wolfgang Nejdl <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany </div>
<div><br></div><div>Local Arrangement Chairs<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div>* Hongming Cai <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div><div>* Wei Liu<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Technology, Sydney</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs </div><div>* Bo An<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</div><div>* Ya Zhang<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div>* Jie Wang<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Stanford University, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Tutorial Chairs </div><div>* Jiuyong Li<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>South Australia University, Australia</div>
<div>* Jaideep Srivastava<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Minnesota</div><div><br></div><div>Panel Chairs </div><div>* Gabriella Pasi<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Universitidi Milano Bicocca, Italy</div>
<div>* Ee-Peng Lim<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Singapore Management University, Singapore</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsorship Chairs<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div>* Guangtao Xue<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>* Xiaohui Tao<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Southern Queensland, Australia</div><div>* Xin Wang<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>University of Calgary, Canada</div>
<div>* Xiaodong Yue<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai University</div><div><br></div><div>Registration/Finance Chair</div><div>* Qi Gu<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Shanghai Jiaotong University, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Publication Chair </div><div>* Frank Jiang<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </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></div>
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