-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] SBP10: 2nd Call for Papers - 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction Datum: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:34:01 -0500 Von: Nitin Agarwal nxagarwal@ualr.edu Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

CALL FOR PAPERS and SAVE THE DATE!

2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10)

Conference Website: http://sbp.asu.edu

March 29 - April 1, 2010

Natcher Auditorium National Institutes of Health (NIH) Main Campus Bethesda, MD

* Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions (TBA) : March 29, 2010 * SBP10 Conference (Single Track) March 30 - 31, 2010 * Post-conference Cross-Disciplinary Workshop: (Tentative), morning, April 1, 2010

Sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Air Force Research Laboratories Office of Naval Research National Institutes of Health

ABOUT SBP Due to the overwhelming success of its workshops in 2008 and 2009, Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction (SBP) has become a high visibility, high-impact, international conference. Detailed information on SBP workshops (SBP08 and SBP09) including proceedings, presentations and invited speakers can be found at http://sbp.asu.edu

Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior and social context. Behavioral modeling refers to representing behavior in the abstract and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario planning. Both social computing and 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.

Conference Offerings and Opportunities SBP10 is a highly interdisciplinary conference offering a rare and exciting opportunity for behavioral and social science researchers to come together with computational and computer scientists and other related disciplines in order to:

* Gain fundamental working knowledge in a discipline outside one’s own through half-day pre-conference tutorials (More information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available). * Showcase SBP research at paper and poster sessions * Meet people in complementary disciplines through deliberate exercises aimed at exploring potential research partnerships during the post-conference half day workshop

Because this conference is being held in the Washington, D.C. area there will be a unique opportunity to meet with program staff across a variety of federal agencies including: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

This conference is emphatically interdisciplinary and provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, program staff from federal agencies and graduate students in disciplines such as sociology, behavioral science, psychology, cultural study, health sciences, economics, computer science, engineering, information systems, and operations research to convene in one place. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of social and behavioral computing and evaluation as they inform critical decision and policy making. The program will include invited speakers from government, industry, and academia, as well as research presentations and discussions.

Call for Papers and Posters Papers or 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

* 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

* 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 Paper/full text poster Due: Friday, November 6, 2009 Notification of acceptance: November 27, 2009 Camera-Ready: December 11, 2009

Format and Submission Papers (maximum 8 pages) should be submitted in PDF format. Full text of posters should also be submitted. Format instructions and a Word template from Springer can be found at the conference website http://sbp.asu.edu

SBP10 Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer Papers should be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbp10

Questions and inquiries are welcome. Please send them to sbpconf10@gmail.com

SBP Conference Committees

SBP10 Conference Organizing Committee - Conference Co-Chairs Patricia L. Mabry, Ph.D. Conference Chair Senior Advisor Program Lead, Systems Science Initiatives Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Institutes of Health http://obssr.od.nih.gov/about_obssr/staff/patricia_mabry_bio.aspx Ed Wegman, Ph.D. Co-Chair Professor of Information Technology and Applied Statistics Chair, Data Sciences Program, School of Computational Sciences Director of the Center for Computational Statistics George Mason University http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/stats/faculty/wegman.html

Yasmin Said, Ph.D. Co-Chair Ruth L. Kirschstein National Fellow Co-Director of the Center for Computational Data Sciences George Mason University

SBP10 Program Committee Chairs Sun-Ki Chai, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sunki/

John Salerno, Ph.D. AFRL/RIEA Air Force Research Laboratory Rome, NY

SBP Steering Committee This committee selects conference chairs and assures consistency and quality of the conference across years. Huan Liu, Ph.D. Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/

John Salerno, Ph.D. Chair Principal Computer Engineer Air Force Research Laboratory Rome, NY

Sun-Ki Chai, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sunki/

SBP Advisory Committee Rebecca Goolsby, Ph.D. Office of Naval Research

Terrance Lyons, Ph.D. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Patricia L. Mabry, Ph.D. Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research National Institutes of Health For Further Information about SBP10 Additional information will be posted to the conference website http://sbp.asu.edu as it becomes available.