BESC 2020

What is New

• Awards page has been published.
• The conference program is avaialble at: BESC 2020 program;
  The virtual conference follows Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
• Conference registration now open
• Paper submission deadline extended to 28 Aug 2020
• BESC 2020 will be a virtual event
• 27 April 2020: BESC 2020 call for papers
• 20 January 2020: BESC 2020 Website is launched

Welcome to BESC 2020

The 7th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC2020) will take place in Bournemouth United Kingdom, 5-7 November 2020. The conference is organized by Bournemouth University (Virtual Conference), UK.

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 and presented papers expect to be included in IEEE Xplore and submitted for indexing in DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, and EI etc. 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.

COVID-19 Note

• All accepted BESC2020 papers will pay a significantly reduced registration fee, mainly to cover proceedings, technical and organisational support, and online hosting;
• Presentations for BESC 2020 shall be prepared by authors with audio/video embedded on them. They will be uploaded online and made accessible to the conference registrants and, with authors’ consent, to the public.
• Both synchronous and asynchronous Q&A will be arranged. This is to accommodate differences in timezones.
• Authors of BESC2020 accepted papers will be given the option to present in BESC2021; they will pay a discounted registration fees.

Journal Special Issues

• World Wide Web Journal (Springer)
  https://www.springer.com/journal/11280
• Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer)
  https://www.springer.com/journal/13278
• Web Intelligence
  http://www.wi-consortium.org/wicweb/html/journal.php
• Information Discovery and Delivery
  http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=idd

• WWWJ (three papers)
• SNAM (two papers)
• WI (three papers)
• IDD (two papers)

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yan Jia Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China	Prof. Panos Markopoulos Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands	Prof Raghavendra Rau Cambridge University, UK