CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2019)
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 28-30 October 2019
WEB: http://www.besc2019.org/index.html

The 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2019) will take place in Beijing, China, 28-30 October 2019.
BESC conference 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. Following the successful BESC2014 in Shanghai, China, BESC2015 in Nanjing, China, BESC2016 in Durham, NC, USA, BESC2017 in Krakow, Poland, BESC2018 in Kaohsiung, BESC2019 will take place in Beijing, China.
The BESC Organizing Committee invites submissions of applied or theoretical research and application-oriented papers on any below topics.




● PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2019, 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. BESC 2019 accepts research papers (6 pages), industry papers (2 pages), special session 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=besc2019
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).


● TOPICS OF INTEREST(for more topics: http://www.besc2019.org/index.html)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Social Computing and Applications
Behavioral and Economic Computing
Information Management and Systems
Digital Humanities
User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics


● IMPORTANT DATES

Papers Submission due: 29 May 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 15 June 2019
Camera-ready due: 12 August 2019
Conference dates: 28-30 October 2019


● ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Yidong Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Steering Committee Chair: Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Program Committee Chairs: Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Haoran Xie, Hong Kong Management University
Uesugi ShiroMatsuyama, University, Japan
Local Arrangement Chair: Jun Wu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Publication Chair: Yi Jin, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Wei Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Finance and Registration Chair: SongHe Feng, Beijing Jiaotong University, China


● CONTACTS

General enquiry: besc2019_conf@163.com