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

  • Submission of Research-track Papers: 15 June 2025
  • Acceptance Notification: 01 August 2025
  • Camera-ready Submission: 01 September 2025
  • Author Registration: 01 September 2025
  • Conference Date: 16-18 October 2025

Paper submission instruction

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

(The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.)

The format of Regular Research Papers should be suitable for original research, which is completed work at the time of submission and, regardless of the length of the paper, is a self-sufficient scientific contribution. Papers should be up to 8 pages in length (excluding references), in IEEE two-columns style, and describe work not presented, published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. If accepted, they might be accepted as full (8 pages) or short (6 pages), excluding references. Accepted papers, whether full or short, will be devoted to a time slot for oral presentation. Selected papers will be invited for submission to journals.

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 submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from here.
  • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only.
  • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review.
  • 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.
  • Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements 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), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Natural Language Processing (Elsevier), etc.
  • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. 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

Contacts

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