Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially in knowledge graphs, large language models (LLMs), and machine learning, have opened new avenues for developing intelligent systems that can understand, reason, and support decision-making in complex real-world domains. This session focuses on how knowledge-driven AI technologies can be leveraged to address emerging challenges in healthcare (e.g., intelligent diagnosis, pulse analysis, cancer detection), mobility (e.g., intelligent transportation systems), and broader social computing contexts.

We particularly welcome interdisciplinary and cross-domain research that integrates symbolic and data-driven AI to support interpretable, context-aware, and socially responsible applications.

We encourage submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to

  • Knowledge graphs for healthcare and medical diagnosis
  • AI-enabled traditional medicine analysis (e.g., computational pulse diagnosis)
  • Large language models in health and social systems
  • Machine learning for cancer detection and early diagnosis
  • Multi-agent systems and collective intelligence for smart transportation
  • Social behavior modeling and mobility analysis using AI
  • Explainable and human-centered AI for health and society
  • Cross-modal sensing and decision-making systems
  • Integration of symbolic knowledge with neural models
  • Real-world deployments and case studies in healthcare or transportation

This special session invites empirical, theoretical, design-based, and methodological contributions from researchers in AI in education, learning sciences, HCI, educational psychology, and subject-specific pedagogy. Case studies and cross-disciplinary collaborations are particularly encouraged.

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.

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:

  • 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.
  • 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.

Organizing Committee

Special Session Chairs
Prof. Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
Prof. Lijie Li, Harbin Engineering University, China
Dr. Junchen Ye, Beihang University, China