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Call for Papers
2015 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 2015 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.
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) and Data Science and Deep Analytics (Springer, forthcoming).
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
Advisory Committee:
Usama Fayyad, Barclays Bank, UK
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
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@163.com
Tel: +86-25-8349-3900
