The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to 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 BESC 2014 in Shanghai, China, BESC 2015 in Nanjing, China, BESC 2016 in Durham, NC, USA, BESC 2017 in Krakow, Poland, BESC 2018 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, BESC 2019 in Beijing, China, BESC 2020 in Bournemouth, UK, BESC 2021 in Doha, Qatar, BESC 2022 in Ehime, Japan, BESC 2023 in Larnaca, Cyprus, and BESC 2024 in Harbin, China, BESC 2025 will take place in Hong Kong, China from 16-18 October 2025.

Important Dates

  • Special Session Papers Submission: 15 July 2025
  • Acceptance Notification: 15 August 2025
  • Camera-Ready Submission: 08 September 2025
  • Conference Date: 16-18 Oct 2025

Paper submission instruction

Paper submission system is available at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BESC2025.

We welcome Extended Abstract submissions showcasing results from completed but yet unpublished studies, where authors prefer not to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings. Instead, the abstracts aim to facilitate discussions that can refine the final version for potential submission elsewhere. These studies will be allocated a timeslot for oral presentation in a special session. The title should clearly include “– Extended Abstract” at the end. Selected abstracts, based on their quality, timeliness, relevance, and completeness, may be invited for submission to journals cooperating with the conference.

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2025, originality, significance and clarity.

Please note:

  • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only.
  • 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.
  • Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (IEEE), CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (Springer), EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (Springer), World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Natural Language Processing (Elsevier), Health Information Science and Systems (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), etc.
  • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.

Topics of interest

BESC 2025 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Social network analysis
  • Semantic web
  • Collective intelligence
  • Social recommendation
  • Social influence and social contagions
  • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science
  • Digital humanities
  • Crowd dynamics
  • Virtual communities
  • Decision analytics
  • Societal impacts of information system
  • Web mining and its social interpretations
  • Human behaviour and information system
  • Behaviour change
  • Technology and wellbeing
  • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
  • Opinion mining and social media analytics
  • Credibility of online content
  • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
  • Privacy, perceived security and trust
  • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour
  • AI and large Language models in social and behavioural computing
  • Generative AI for synthetic behavioral and social data generation
  • Agent-based modeling for human behavior and social dynamics
  • LLM-driven agents for social interaction and communication
  • Multimodal behavioral and social sensing and analytics

Contacts

All inquiries about the conference, including submissions, can be directed to the organisation committee at ieee.besc[at]gmail.com.