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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and
Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2018)
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 12-14 November, 2018

Conference Website: http://besc-conf.org/2018/
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The 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and
Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2018) will take place in Garden
Villa Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 12-14 November, 2018.

BESC aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers
and industry practitioners from data mining, artificial intelligence,
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 submitted for inclusion into
IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I), e.g. EI
and DBLP. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will
be selected for extension and publication in several special issues
of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer)
and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer).

The conference committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical
research and application-oriented papers on any below areas/tracks.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Social Computing and Applications
- Social behavior
- Social network analysis
- Semantic web
- Collective intelligence
- Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
- Social commerce and related applications
- Social recommendation
- Social data mining

* Digital Humanities
- Digital media
- Digital humanities
- Digital games and learning
- Digital footprints and privacy
- Twitter histories creation
- Crowd dynamics
- Digital arts
- Digital Healthcare
- Mobile technologies
- Activity streams and experience design

* Behavioral and Economic Computing
- Agent-based modeling
- Artificial/experimental markets
- Asset pricing
- Computational finance
- Financial crises
- Monetary policy
- Optimization
- Volatility modeling
- Evolutionary economics

* Social Computing and Applications
- Social behavior
- Social network analysis
- Semantic web
- Collective intelligence
- Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
- Social commerce and related applications
- Social recommendation
- Social data mining

* User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics
- Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
- Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation
- Web dynamics and personalization
- Privacy, perceived security and trust

* 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

* Applications of Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing
- Applications of Behavioral computing
- Applications of Economic computing
- Applications of Socio-Cultural computing
- Criss-disciplinary applications of computing in Behavioral Science,
Economy, and Socio-Cultural Science

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers Submission due: 15 June 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2018
Camera-ready due: 1 September 2018
Conference date: 12-14 November 2018

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to BESC 2018, originality, significance
and clarity. Please note:

- All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are
available from
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper
submission system in PDF format only, BESC2018 accepts scientific
papers (6 pages), short papers (2 pages) and demo papers (2 pages).
- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that
have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a
journal or a conference with proceedings.
- Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected
based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance,
and clarity of presentation.
- Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that,
should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will
register and attend the conference to present the work.

Paper submission system is available at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2018

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* General Chair:
Leon S. L. Wang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Tzung Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

* Steering Committee Chair:
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

* Program Committee Chairs:
I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

* Publication Chair:
Hsing-Chang Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

* Publicity Chairs:
Been-Chian Chien, National Tainan University, Taiwan
Haoran Xie, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Xujuan Zhou, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Yongrui (Louie) Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK

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CONTACTS
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* General enquiry: IEEE-BESC@gmail.com
* PC related: I-Hsien Ting iting@nuk.edu.tw