Workshop Description

Human decision making is central in many functions across a broad spectrum of fields such as marketing, investment, smart contract formulations, political campaigns, and organizational strategic management. Behavioral economics seeks to study the psychological, cultural, and social factors contributing to decision making along reasoning. It should be highlighted here that behavioral economics do not negate classical economic theory but rather extend it in two distinct directions. First, a finer granularity can be obtained by studying the decision making process not of massive populations but instead of individuals and groups with signal estimation or deep learning techniques based on a wide array of attributes ranging from social media posts to physiological signs. Second, time becomes a critical parameter and changes to the disposition towards alternative decisions can be tracked with input-output or state space models. The primary findings so far are concepts like bounded rationality and perceived risk, while results include optimal strategies for various levels of information awareness and action strategies based on perceived loss aversion principles. From the above it follows that behavioral economics relies on deep learning, signal processing, control theory, social media analysis, affective computing, natural language processing, and gamification to name only a few fields. Therefore, it is directly tied to computer science in many ways. THECOG will be a central meeting point for researchers of various backgrounds in order to generate new interdisciplinary and groundbreaking results.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please note that the review process will be double blind. For more information regarding paper submission please read carefully the CIKM 2021 guidelines. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (up to 9 pages long) describing in detail technical solutions to problems in the areas of THECOG 2021 interest.
• Short papers (up to 4 pages long) explaining case studies, experiments, and industry applications of the above areas.

List of Topics (Indicative)

• Affective state in social media beyond single polarity
• Behavioral economics and deep learning
• Bounded rationality estimation techniques and computational models
• Case studies of behavioral economics
• Computational affective models
• Data-driven approaches for strategy recommendation
• Deep learning strategies for training nudge theory models
• Distributed approaches to computing public sentiment at massive scale
• Graph neural networks for assessing sentiments in social graphs
• Higher order sentiment metrics
• Information augmentation through social media and crowdsourcing
• Semantics for Barnum statement and affective state discovery
• Natural language processing for aspect mining
• Nudge theory based strategies for brand loyalty and social media campaigns
• Risk estimators based on perceptive criteria and incomplete information

Committees

Workshop Chairs

• Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University - eleana [dot] kafeza [at] zu [dot] ac [dot] ae
• Georgios Drakopoulos, Ionian University - c16drak [at] ionio [dot] gr

Program Committee (Tentative)

• Georgios Drakopoulos, Ionian University, Greece
• Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE
• Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University, Greece
• Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece

Invited Speakers

• Erik Cambria, SenticNet

THECOG proceedings and special issue to Frontiers in Big Data

• The workshop organizing committee has ensred that the THECOG2021 proceedings will be published as part of those of the CIKM.
• The organizing committee is glad to announce that authors of selected papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their works to an upcoming Frontiers in Big Data special issue. More details about the special issue here.

Venue

THECOG 2021 workshop will be organized as an online event. For more information, please check the CIKM 2021 Web site.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: 22 September 2021 - 18 October 2021
• Author notification: 1 October 2021 - 25 October 2021
• Camera ready: 5 October 2021 - 28 October 2021

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the workshop organizers.