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Welcome to BESC 2018



The 5th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC2018) will take place in Garden Villa Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 12-14 November, 2018. The conference is organized by National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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 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) Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer) and Web Intelligence.

Journal Sepcial Issues

Selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals


Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yanchun Zhang
Director, Center for Applied Informatics
Victoria University, Australia

Prof. Irwin King
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Prof. Shou-De Lin
National Taiwan University, Taiwan