-------------------------------------------------------------------- *** The 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing - 16-18 October, 2017 (BESC 2017) *** THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2017) will take place at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, POLAND, 16-18 October, 2017. http://www.besc-conf.org/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 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, including World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer) and Information Discovery and Delivery Journal (SSCl-Indexed). This edition of the conference takes place in Krakow, at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Krakow is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. The city is located in the southern part of Poland in the Lesser Poland region. The history of the city dates back to the 7th century. Since the Middle Ages Krakow had been the capital of the Polish state until the 17th century and has kept the character of a spiritual capital till the present day. Poland is a member of the European Union since May 2004 and belongs to Schengen Area since 2007. The AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST) is one of the leading technical universities in Poland. The university was established on 20th October, 1919, and was formerly known as the University of Mining and Metallurgy. ** Important Dates: ** Submissions of papers due: 5/06/2017 Notification due: 16/07/2017 Camera-ready due: 02/08/2017 Conference date: 16-18/10/2017 ** Areas of interest: ** * 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 ** Submissions: ** All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2017 * 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) * 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. ` ** 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 ** Programme Committee ** Rafael Alcala, University of Granada, Spain Esther Andrés, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Yuji Aruka, Chuo University, Japan Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy Jason Barr, Rutgers University, USA Pietro Battiston, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Michael Berger, DocuWare AG, France Cécile Bothorel, Telecom Bretagne, France Piotr Bródka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Myong-Hun Chang, Cleveland State University, USA Zhiyuan Chen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Xhangxiu Cheng, Beijing Normal University, China Bin-Tzong Chie, Tamkang University, Taiwan Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble Alpes, France Germán Creamer, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, USA Massimiliano De Leoni, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Andres Diaz Pace, University of Tandil, Argentina Johannes Fähndrich, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva, Switzerland Svitlana Galeshchuk, Nova Southeastern University, USA Catherine Garbay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France Yanhui Gu, Nanjing Normal University, China Ziyu Guan, Northwest University of China, China Vincent Hilaire, Technical University of Belfort-Montbéliard, France Vicente Julian, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Martin Kollingbaum, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Jaroslaw Kozlak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Pascale Kuntz, Université de Nantes, France Robin Lamarche-Perrin, CNRS - ISC, France Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Hung-Wen Lin, Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Guanfeng Liu, Macquarie University, China Shaowu Liu, Deakin University, Australia Yun Liu, Beijing jiaotong University, China Yu Liu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Domitile Lourdeaux, Technical University of Compiègne, France Arnaud Martin, Université de Rennes, France Luis Martinez, University of Jaen, Spain Eric Matson, Purdue University, USA Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA José M. Molina, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Mikolaj Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Klaus Mueller, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Federico Neri, Synthema, Italy Eiji Okamoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Massimo Panella, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Na Pang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Michael Pidd, University of Sheffield, UK Marianne Ping Huang, Aarhus University, Denmark Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy Weiguang Qu, Nanjing Normal University, China Juwel Rana, Telenor Group, Norway Alexander Redlein, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Tarik Roukny Ornia, MIT, USA Chris Ruebeck, Lafayette College, USA Silvia Schiaffino, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina Ishwar Sethi, Oakland University, USA Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Ivan Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil Gerardo Simari, Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina Shyam Gouri Suresh, Davidson College, USA Chung-Ching, Tai Tunghai University, Taiwan Patrick Taillandier, University of Rouen, France Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Marijana Tomic, University of Zadar, Croatia Hanghang Tong, City College of New York, USA Paolo Torroni, University of Bologna, Italy Chueh-Yung, Tsao Chang Gung University, Taiwan Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg, Germany Domenico Ursino, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Iraklis Varlamis, University of Athens, Greece Julien Velcin, University of Lyon, France Jinlong Wang, Qingdao University of Technology, China Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Junzo Watada, Waseda University, Japan Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, Engineering School of Digital Sciences, France Qingzheng Xu, Xi’an Communication Institute, China Ronald Yager, Iona College, USA Hsin-Chang Yang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Zhenglu Yang, University of Tokyo, Japan Feng Yi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Kun Yue, Yunnan University, China Chengde Zhang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Lefeng Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Min-Ling Zhang, Southeast University, China Yuan Zhang, Nanjing University, China Shang-Ming Zhou, Swansea University, United Kingdom Jianke Zhu, Zhejiang University, China Tingshao Zhu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA (to be completed) ** Address: ** Dr. Jaroslaw Kozlak Department of Computer Science Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications(IET), AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND e-mail: IEEE.BESC@gmail.com phone: +48 123283308 ** Organisers and Sponsorship: ** AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland UTS University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IEEE IEEE Computational Intelligence Society