CALL FOR PAPERS !!! 2011 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10) Conference Website: [1]http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2011/ March 29 - March 31, 2011 Sponsored by An up to date list of sponsors will be listed on the conference website. Current sponsors include: 1) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) 2) Office of Naval Research (ONR) 3) Army Research Organization (ARO) 4) National Science Foundation (NSF) ABOUT SBP This year's 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 and social context. Behavioral-cultural 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 behavioral-cultural 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. Call for Papers and Posters Papers or 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 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 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 Paper/full text poster Due: Friday, November 6, 2010 Notification of acceptance: November 27, 2010 Camera-Ready: December 11, 2010 Conference Chairs: Dana Nau, University of Maryland, nau@cs.umd.edu Sun-Ki Chai, University of Hawaii, sunki@hawaii.edu Program Chairs: John Salerno, AFRL, john.salerno@rl.af.mil Shanchieh (Jay) Yang, RIT, jay.yang@rit.edu Format and Submission Papers (maximum 8 pages) should be submitted in PDF format. Full text of posters should also be submitted. Format instructions and a Word template from Springer can be found at the conference website [2]http://sbp.asu.edu <[3]http://sbp.asu.edu/> SBP11 Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer Papers should be submitted at [4]http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbp11 Questions and inquiries are welcome. Please send them to sbpconf11@gmail.com or to the publicity Chair: Inon Zuckerman, UMD, inon [at] cs.umd.edu References 1. http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2011/ 2. http://sbp.asu.edu/ 3. http://sbp.asu.edu/ 4. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbp11