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CALL FOR PAPERS
PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSION DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
2012 International Conference on
Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP12)
April 3 – April 5, 2012, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Conference Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: April 2, 2012
SBP12 Conference (Single Track), April 3-5, 2012
Cross-Fertilization Roundtables, April 3 (Afternoon), 2012
Sponsored by
An up to date list of sponsors will be listed on the conference website.
Sponsors for
SBP 2011 included:
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Army Research Organization (ARO)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
ABOUT SBP
The SBP conference is the result of merging two successful international
conferences on closely related subjects:
the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and
Prediction (SBP) and
the International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD.) The
combined conference
retains the acronym SBP, with “Behavioral” replaced by “Behavioral-Cultural”.
Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social
behavior
within a social context. Cultural behavioral modeling refers to representing
behavior
and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct
virtual
experiments and scenario planning. Both social computing and cultural
behavioral
modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex
behaviors,
patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are
inherently
interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of
analysis
(i.e., “cells to societies”) and cross disparate disciplines.
Call for Papers and Posters
Papers and posters are solicited on research issues, theories, and
applications. Topics
of interests include, but are not limited to,
Military and security applications of SBP
o Group formation and evolution in the political context
o Technology and flash crowds
o Networks and political influence
o Information diffusion
o Group representation and profiling
o Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Health applications of SBP
o Social network analysis to understand health behavior
o Modeling of health policy and decision making
o Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
o Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Other applications of SBP
o Economic applications of SBP
o Reasoning about development aid through SBP
o Reasoning about global educational efforts through SBP
Basic research on sociocultural and behavioral processes using SBP
o Group interaction and collaboration
o Group formation and evolution
o Group representation and profiling
o Cultural patterns and representation
o Social conventions and social contexts
o Influence process and recognition
o Public opinion representation
o Viral marketing and information diffusion
o Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Methodological issues in SBP
o Verification and validation
o Sensitivity analysis
o Matching technique or method to research questions
o Metrics and evaluation
o Methodological innovation
o Model federation and integration
o Limitations of and barriers to SBP
o Research gaps and opportunities
Important Dates
Submission Open: October 1, 2011
Paper Registration Deadline: Friday, October 28, 2011
Paper/full text poster Due: Friday, November 4, 2011
Notification of acceptance: December 5, 2011
Camera-Ready: December 19, 2011
Format and Submission
SBP12 Conference Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science
(LCNS) by Springer. The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted
according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are
available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Abstract and full text for both oral presentations and posters should be
submitted
electronically before the specified deadlines. The maximum length of papers is
8 pages
and should be submitted in PDF following the instruction at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/callforpapers.html.
For any questions and inquiries, please send to
[email protected].
Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions
Four half-day sessions will be offered: two concurrent sessions in the morning
and two
concurrent sessions in the afternoon on the day before the full conference.
Sessions
will be designed to meet the needs of one of two distinct groups. One group
will consist
of attendees who have backgrounds in computational science; computer science,
engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines. Other tutorial
sessions will be
designed for behavioral and social scientists and others
(e.g. those with medical backgrounds or training in public health) who may have
limited
formal education in the computational sciences. Attendees will gain an
understanding of
terminology, theories, and general approaches employed by computationally based
fields,
especially with respect to modeling approaches.
More details regarding the preconference tutorial
sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration information
will be
posted to the conference website as soon as this information becomes available
at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/.
Note that the plans for the tutorial sessions are in progress and are subject
to change.
Cross-fertilization Roundtables
The SBP12 Cross-fertilization Roundtable session will be held in the afternoon
of the
first day of the technical portion of the conference. The purpose of the
cross-fertilization roundtables is to help participants become better
acquainted with
people outside of their discipline and with whom they might consider partnering
on a
future SBP project.
Best Paper Awards
SBP 2012 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All
papers are
qualified for the Best Paper Award. Papers where the senior author says the
principal
author is a student will be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
Hotel and Logistics
The Marriott Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland University
College. Their
home page includes directions, maps, etc. http://www.marriott.com/wasum
Travel Scholarships
It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be available
on a
competitive basis. Additional information will be provided on the SBP
Conference website
as it becomes available at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/.
SBP Conference Committees
Conference Co-Chairs:
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, [email protected]
Nathan Bos, JHU APL, [email protected]
Program Co-Chairs:
Shanchieh (Jay) Yang, RIT, [email protected]
Ariel Greenberg, JHU APL, [email protected]
Mica Endsley, SA Technologies, [email protected]
Steering Committee:
Huan Liu, Arizona State University, [email protected]
John Salerno, AFRL, [email protected]
Sun-Ki Chai, University of Hawaii, [email protected]
Dana Nau, University of Maryland, [email protected]
VS Subrahmanian, UMD, [email protected]
Advisory Committee:
Rebecca Goolsby, ONR, [email protected]
Joesph Lyons, AFOSR, [email protected]
Jeff Johnson, ARL/ARO, [email protected]
Fahmida N. Chowdhury, NSF, [email protected]
Poster Session Chair:
Lei Yu, Binghamton University, [email protected]
Tutorial Chair:
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, [email protected]
Challenge Problem Chair:
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock , [email protected]
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Fahmida N. Chowdhury, NSF, [email protected]
Bethany Deeds, NIH, [email protected]
Sponsorship Committee Co-Chairs:
Huan Liu, ASU, [email protected]
Student Arrangement Chair:
Patrick Roos, UMD, [email protected]
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Donald Adjeroh, West Virginia University, [email protected]
Gerardo Simari, Oxford University, [email protected]
Web Master:
Damon Earp, UMD, [email protected]
For Further Information about SBP12
Additional information will be posted to the conference website
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012 as it becomes available.
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