2019 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

SBP-BRiMS 2019


Computing Systems



All regular paper submissions should be submitted as a paper with a maximum of 10 pages using the foregoing format. Total page count includes all figures, tables, and references. All accepted and finalized papers will be published in the formal printed proceedings. This is an archival document.
TOPICS:
Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include but are not limited to the following:
Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling
- Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution
- Collective action and governance
- Cultural patterns & representation
- Social conventions, social contexts and processes
- Influence process and recognition
- Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
- Information diffusion
- Psycho-cultural situation awareness
- Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
- Models of reasoning and decision making
- Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking
- Intelligent tutoring systems
- Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
- Human behavior issues in model federations
Information, Systems, & Network Science
- Data mining on social media platforms
- Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
- Inference of network topologies and changes over time
- Analysis of link formations and link types
- Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
- Analysis of high-dimensional networks
- Analytics for social and human dynamics
Military & Intelligence Applications
- Group formation and evolution in the political context
- Networks and political influence
- Group representation and profiling
- Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
- Cyber and attribution
- Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities
Applications for Health and Well-being
- Social network analysis to understand health behavior
- Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making
- Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
- Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity, asthma)
- Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community
- Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
- Model federation, integration, verification, or validation
- Evolutionary computing and optimization
- Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation