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Registration is now open for SBP15, the 2015 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. SBP15 will be held at the UCDC Center, downtown Washington DC, USA March 31 - April 3, 2015. Link to the main conference pages, http://sbp-conference.org/ Link directly to registration page, http://sbp-conference.org/registration/ *** Please note that early registration deadline is February 27, 2015. *** Link directly to registration page, http://sbp-conference.org/registration/ STUDENT TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE The SBP Conference will provide a limited number of student registration/travel awards to assist students to attend the conference. The awards will cover conference registration via reimbursement for local students. For non-local students, the award will cover reimbursement of up to $700 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. To apply for the award, students must: 1) Submit their request online using the Travel Scholarship Application Form available at http://sbp-conference.org/awards/ 2) Ask a university faculty member to submit a simple letter of support confirming the applicant's student status to [email protected] Incomplete application will not be processed. The awards will be allocated on the basis of student qualifications, need, and available funding. Please note that students do not have to be an author of a paper or a winner of the challenge program of SBP 2015 in order to apply. Deadline for Applications: February 26, 2015 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME EXCITING ITEMS ON THE PROGRAM! SBP 2015 CHALLENGE – see: http://sbp-conference.org/challenge/ The SBP Challenge aims to demonstrate the real-world and interdisciplinary impact of social computing. The challenge will engage the social computing research community in solving a relevant, interesting, and challenging research problem that will advance the theory, methodology, and/or application of social computing. TUTORIALS – see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/ Morning and afternoon tutorials are offered on Tuesday, March 31 (included with registration fee): Morning Session (1) Big Data Analytics for Behavioral Modeling Presenters: Hsuanwei Michelle Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, San Jose State University, Shuyuan Mary Ho, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Florida State University Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information, San Jose State University (2) A Tutorial on Text and Network Analysis Methods Presenter: David Broniatowski, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, The George Washington Afternoon Session (1) Behavioral Mining, Cultural Differences and Social Network Analysis in Massive Online Games Presenters: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, PhD Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota Jaideep Srivastava, PhD Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota (2) Introduction to social network and spatial data in R and Python to social scientists Jose Manuel Magallanes, PhD Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, and Department of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru For a full description of tutorials, see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/ SBP15 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (1) Scott Page, PhD Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics, The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2) Mark Newman, PhD Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor (3) Phil Bourne, PhD Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health (4) CDR Joseph Cohn, PhD Office of the Secretary of Defense For more information on the keynote speakers, see: http://sbp-conference.org/keynote.shtml Please visit the conference website for further information about the conference: http://sbp-conference.org/index.shtml
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