CFP: SBP 2012 at University of Maryland College Park

[Gerardo I. Simari]

CALL FOR PAPERS and SAVE THE DATE!

PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSION DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011

2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural
Modeling, & Prediction (SBP12)

Conference Website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/

April 3 – April 5, 2012

University of Maryland
College Park, MD


- Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions: April 2, 2012
- SBP12 Conference  (Single Track), April 3-5, 2012
- Cross-Fertilization Roundtables, April 3 (Afternoon), 2012


Sponsored by (an up to date list of sponsors will be listed on the
conference website)
Sponsors for SBP 2011 included:

- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Army Research Organization (ARO)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)


ABOUT SBP


The SBP conference is the result of merging two successful international
conferences
on closely related subjects:

- the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and
Prediction (SBP)
- the International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD)

The combined conference retains the acronym SBP, with “Behavioral” replaced
by “Behavioral-Cultural”.

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

SBP12 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 cross-fertilization roundtable session.

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), Army Research Organization
(ARO), National Institutes
of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the 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. In addition, the conference
will pay special attention to application
papers. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of how social
and behavioral computing and evaluation
can 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 and posters are solicited on research issues, theories, and
applications. Topics of interests include,
but are not limited to,

Military and security applications of SBP
- Group formation and evolution in the political context
- Technology and flash crowds
- Networks and political influence
- Information diffusion
- Group representation and profiling
- Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them

Health applications of SBP
- Social network analysis to understand health behavior
- Modeling of health policy and decision making
- Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
- Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health

Other applications of SBP
- Economic applications of SBP
- Reasoning about development aid through SBP
- Reasoning about global educational efforts through SBP

Basic research on sociocultural and behavioral processes using SBP
- Group interaction and collaboration
- Group formation and evolution
- Group representation and profiling
- Cultural patterns and representation
- Social conventions and social contexts
- Influence process and recognition
- Public opinion representation
- Viral marketing and information diffusion
- Psycho-cultural situation awareness

Methodological issues in SBP
- Verification and validation
- Sensitivity analysis
- Matching technique or method to research questions
- Metrics and evaluation
- Methodological innovation
- Model federation and integration
- Limitations of and barriers to SBP
- Research gaps and opportunities


*** Important Dates ***

Submission Open: October 1, 2011

Paper Registration Deadline: Friday, October 28, 2011

Paper/full text poster Due: Friday, November 4, 2011

Notification of acceptance: December 5, 2011

Camera-Ready: December 19, 2011


Format and Submission

SBP12 Conference Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LCNS) by Springer.
The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines.
Sample LaTeX2e and WORD files are available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Abstract and full text for both oral presentations and posters should be
submitted electronically before the
specified deadlines. The maximum length of papers is 8 pages and should be
submitted in PDF following the
instruction in
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/callforpapers.html. For any
questions and inquiries,
please send to sbp-tpc at lists.hawaii.edu.


Pre-conference Tutorial Sessions

Four half-day sessions will be offered: two concurrent sessions in the
morning and two concurrent sessions in
the afternoon on the day before the full conference.  Sessions will be
designed to meet the needs of one of two
distinct groups.  One group will consist of attendees who have backgrounds
in computational science; computer
science, engineering, and other mathematically oriented disciplines.  The
purpose of tutorials aimed at this group
is for attendees to become familiar with the behavioral and social science
concepts including terminology, theories,
and traditional approaches to problem solving.

Other tutorial sessions will be designed for behavioral and social
scientists and others (e.g. those with medical
backgrounds or training in public health) who may have limited formal
education in the computational sciences.
Attendees will gain an understanding of terminology, theories, and general
approaches employed by computationally
based fields, especially with respect to modeling approaches.

The purpose of these tutorial sessions is to give each group of related
disciplines a basic working knowledge in
the complementary set of disciplines in order to pave the way for better
communication across disparate disciplines
and to enhance the conference experience for all attendees. More details
regarding the preconference tutorial
sessions, including instructors, course content, and registration
information will be posted to the conference
website as soon as this information becomes available at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/. Note
that the plans for the tutorial sessions are in progress and are subject to
change.


Cross-fertilization Roundtables

The SBP12 Cross-fertilization Roundtable session will be held in the
afternoon of the first day of the technical
portion of the conference. The purpose of the cross-fertilization
roundtables is to help participants become better
acquainted with people outside of their discipline and with whom they might
consider partnering on a future SBP
project.  To accomplish this goal, this workshop will feature 3-4 sessions,
each lasting up to 30 minutes. During
each session, a number of roundtables will run concurrently.  Each
roundtable will focus on a different topic
(although should demand warrant, there may be duplication of some topics
across roundtables).  Approximately 8-10
participants will sit at each table. Conference organizers will assign
participants to roundtables based on their
interests (to be indicated on the tutorial registration form) and will
ensure that the composition of each roundtable
offers opportunities for behavioral and social scientist to meet systems
scientists and vice versa. Thus, by the end
of the workshop period, each participant will have had an opportunity to
converse with a variety people from
complementary disciplines and may have a feel for selected people they might
like to collaborate with. It is the
intent of the conference organizers that this workshop will spawn the
formation of numerous interdisciplinary
investigative teams, and that those teams will collaborate on grant
applications to sponsoring funding agencies.
More details regarding the preconference tutorial sessions, including
instructors, course content, and registration
information will be posted to the conference website as soon as this
information becomes available at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/. Note that the plans for the
post conference workshop are in progress
and are subject to change.


Best Paper Awards

SBP 2012 will feature a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. All
papers are qualified for the Best
Paper Award. Papers where the senior author says the principal author is a
student will be considered for the Best
Student Paper Award.


Hotel and Logistics

The Marriott Inn & Conference Center, University of Maryland University
College. Their home page includes directions,
maps, etc.  http://www.marriott.com/wasum


Travel Scholarships

It is anticipated that a limited number travel scholarships will be
available on a competitive basis.
Additional information will be provided on the SBP Conference website as it
becomes available at
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/.


SBP Conference Committees

Conference Co-Chairs:

V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, vs at cs.umd.edu
Nathan Bos, JHU APL, Nathan.Bos at jhuapl.edu

Program Co-Chairs:

Shanchieh (Jay) Yang, RIT, jay.yang at rit.edu
Ariel Greenberg, JHU APL, Ariel.Greenberg at jhuapl.edu
Mica Endsley, SA Technologies, mica at satechnologies.com

Steering Committee:

Huan Liu, Arizona State University, huan.liu at asu.edu
John Salerno, AFRL, john.salerno at rl.af.mil
Sun-Ki Chai, University of Hawaii, sunki at hawaii.edu
Dana Nau, University of Maryland, nau at cs.umd.edu
VS Subrahmanian, UMD, vs at cs.umd.edu

Advisory Committee:

Rebecca Goolsby, ONR, rebecca.goolsby at navy.mil
Joesph Lyons, AFOSR, Joseph.Lyons at wpafb.af.mil
Jeff Johnson, ARL/ARO, jeffrey.c.johnson4 at us.army.mil
Fahmida N. Chowdhury, NSF, fchowdhu at nsf.gov

Poster Session Chair:

Lei Yu, Binghamton University, lyu at cs.binghamton.edu

Tutorial Chair:

Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, nagurney at gbfin.umass.edu


Challenge Problem Chair:

Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, nxagarwal at ualr.edu

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Fahmida N. Chowdhury, NSF, fchowdhu at nsf.gov
Bethany Deeds, NIH, Deedsb at NIDA.nih.gov

Sponsorship Committee Co-Chairs:

Huan Liu, ASU, huan.liu at asu.edu

Student Arrangement Chair:

Patrick Roos, UMD, patroos at gmail.com

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Donald Adjeroh, West Virginia University, Donald.Adjeroh at mail.wvu.edu
Gerardo Simari, Oxford University, gerardo.simari at cs.ox.ac.uk

Web Master: Damon Earp, UMD, dearp at umiacs.umd.edu

Additional information will be posted to the conference website
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012  as it becomes available.
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