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.

We welcome Extended Abstract submissions showcasing results from completed but yet unpublished studies, where authors prefer not to publish them as regular papers in the conference proceedings.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.

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2026, originality, significance and clarity.

This year we offer two participation paths:

1. Presentation & Publication: To be included in the conference proceedings, the submission must meet the page length requirements (6-10 pages).
2. Presentation Only: Authors who wish to present and discuss their work without formal publication are also welcome.

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

Important Dates

submission instruction

Please use the below links to download the Springer template and to submit your work.

Please note:

• Authors must use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines and formatting template for their submissions and each paper must be at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages in length (including references).
• 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 included in the proceedings of BESC 2026 and indexed by EI Compendex, ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital Library, Google Scholar and other A&I services.
• Papers that are substantially or entirely generated by generative AI tools are not permitted. The use of generative AI as an assistive tool (e.g., for language editing) is allowed, provided that such use is clearly and explicitly disclosed in the paper. Authors remain fully responsible for the content, originality, and integrity of their submissions.

Contact

• Xiaokun Wang, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China (wangxiaokun[at]ustb.edu.cn)
• Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong, Australia (elenavg[at]uow.edu.au)