The 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2017) will take place in AGH - University of Science and Technology - Kraków - POLAND, 16-18 October, 2017.

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) services, e.g. EI, DBLP and Thomson Reuters (Web of Science). 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), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer) and Information Discovery and Delivery Journal (SSCI Indexed).

Submission Guidelines

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2017, originality, significance, and clarity.

• All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

• BESC2017 accepts scientific papers (6 pages), position papers (2 pages) and demo papers (2 pages)

• Papers should be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair system:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2017

• 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 presented in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.

• Submission of a paper is 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.

List of Topics

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

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

• 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   

• 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
     

• 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
  

Committees

Organizing committee

• General Chair:
    Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
      	

• Conference Chairs: 
    Jaroslaw Kozlak, Faculty of IET, AGH-UST, Krakow, Poland 
    Klaus Mueller, Faculty of Humanities, AGH-UST, Krakow, Poland 
    

• Program Committee Chairs: 
    Yves Demazeau, CNRS, France 
    JianBo Gao, Guangxi University, China 
  
  

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

• Research Track Chairs:
  
    Behavioral and Economic Computing:
     Tony He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
     Herbert Dawid, Bielefeld, Germany
  
    Digital Humanities:
     Koraljka Golub, Linnaeus University, Sweden
     Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia  
     Krzysztof Pietrowicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, 
     
    Information Management and Systems:
     Wu He, Old Dominion University, USA 
     Xitong Li, HEC Paris, France 
  
    Social Computing and Applications: 
     Chris Kuhlman, Virginia Tech, USA 
     Anna Zygmunt, AGH-UST, Krakow, Poland   
  	 
    User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics: 
     Yidong Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China 
     Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
  	 
    Applications: 
      Juan Manuel Corchado,  University of Salamanca, Spain
      Xin Li, iFlyTek, China
  		 

• Special Session Chair:
    I-Hsien (Derrick) Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan 
    

• Publicity Chairs:
    Shaowu Liu, UTS, Australia
    Malgorzata Zabinska, AGH-UST Krakow, Poland,  

Publication

Previous BESC proceedings have been included into IEEE Xplore as well as EI, DBLP. All papers accepted by BESC2017 will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.

Venue

The conference will be held in AGH - University of Science and Technology, Krakow, POLAND / 16-18 October, 2017

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to IEEE-BESC@gmail.com