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                       CALL FOR PAPERS

 The 7th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2020)
           Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 5-7 November 2020. 

    *** Paper Submission Deadline *** - 28 Aug 2020 (extended)

           Conference Website: http://besc-conf.org/2020/  


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COVID-19 Note
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	- BESC 2020 conference will run online  
	- All accepted BESC2020 papers will pay a reduced amount of 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.

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The 7th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2020)
 will take place in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 5-7 November 2020.

BESC conference aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers 
and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, business and 
marketing, and behavioral  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. 

Following the successful BESC2014 in Shanghai, China, BESC2015 in Nanjing, China, 
BESC2016 in Durham, NC, USA, BESC2017 in Krakow, Poland, BESC2018 in Kaohsiung, 
Taiwan, BESC2019 in Beijing, China, BESC2020 will take place in Bournemouth, UK.


The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions 
to be held during the BESC 2020 conference in Bournmouth. While we welcome 
special sessions in all areas of Economy, Social Science, Psychology, 
and Computer Science, we are particularly interested in focused research 
topics, specifically those related to the following innovation themes:

* Social Computing and Applications
* Behavioral and Economic Computing
* Information Management and Systems
* Digital Humanities
* User Modeling, Privacy, and Ethics

Special sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging 
open problems of relevance in applications on Behavioral, Economic, and 
Socio-Cultural Computing. 

Submissions to accepted special sessions will be 2 pages in IEEE 
two-column style. Accepted special session papers will also be included 
in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion into IEEE 
Xplore as well as other Abstracting and  Indexing (A&I), e.g. EI and DBLP. 

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IMPORTANT DATES 
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Special Session (SS) Propoal due:  29 May 2020
Notification of Acceptance:        10 June 2020
SS Paper submission due:           28 Aug 2020 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance:        30 Sep 2020  
Camera-ready due:                  15 Oct 2020
Conference date:                   5-7 Nov 2020
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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of 
technical quality, relevance to BESC 2019, originality, significance 
and clarity. Please note: 

- All Special Session paper submissions should use IEEE two-column style. 
  Templates are available from 
  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
- All Special Session papers must be submitted electronically through 
  the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2019 accepts research
  papers (6 pages), industry papers (2 pages), special session papers (2 pages) 
  and demo papers (2 pages).
- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that 
  have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal 
  or a conference with proceedings.
- Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based 
  on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity 
  of presentation.
- Submission of a paper should be 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.

Paper submission system is available at: 
     https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2020

All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. 
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) 
and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer). 

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Conference Chair
  John McAlaney, Bournemouth University, UK

* Steering Committee Chair
  Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
    	
* Program Committee Chairs
  Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
  Hongzhi Yin, University of Queensland, Australia 

* Special Session Chair
  Lin Qiu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

* Local Arrangement Chair
  Sarah Hodge, Bournemouth University, UK	 

* Publicity Chair
  Elvira Bolat, Bournemouth University, UK
  Hongxu Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Imran Razzak, Deakin University, Australia

* Publication Chair
  Emily Arden-Close, Bournemouth University, UK

* Industry Chair
  Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, University of West London, UK

* Finance and Registration Chair
  [tbd]

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CONTACTS
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* General enquiry: ieee.besc@gmail.com