The Industry & Demo Track of the 13th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC 2026) serves as a seamless bridge between theoretical foundations and real-world impact, providing an engaging and highly interactive platform to showcase research across a broad spectrum of fields, including behavioral and cognitive science, data science, finance, social science, and AI for science. To accommodate different types of applied research and system maturity, the track is divided into two distinct sub-tracks:

Industry Sub-Track focuses on applied work describing the implementation of a system, data acquisition, or methodology that solves a significant real-world problem and demonstrates clear industry benefits. We highly encourage papers detailing large-scale deployment, system architecture trade-offs, empirical evaluations using real datasets, and insightful "negative results" from real-world applications.

Demo Sub-Track focuses on research prototypes, operational systems, and tools, demonstrating how behavioral and social computing concepts are translated into tangible technical entities. We highly encourage submissions that showcase high functionality and novelty, with a clear emphasis on potential usefulness and real-world impact. Demos should prioritize engagement with the audience and provide evidence of successful use cases or practical implementation.

We invite submissions from global tech companies, startups, research labs, academic collaborations, and individual researchers in the general areas of:

  • Cognitive science
  • Big data management
  • Domain-specific/advanced intelligent information systems
  • Data science
  • AI for science
  • AI for social good
  • Advanced AI applications in education, sport science, behavioural and psychological sciences, computational social science, business and marketing, etc.

submission instruction

Please use the below links to download the Springer template and to submit your work. 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 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. 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 2026, originality, significance and clarity.

Please note:

  • Authors must use Springer LNCS/LNAI manuscript submission guidelines and formatting template for their submissions. Each submission to the Industry Sub-track must be at least 10 pages and no longer than 16 pages in length (including references); each submission to the Demo Sub-track must be at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages in length (including references).
  • Submissions to the Demo Sub-track must be accompanied by an interactive system or a high-quality animated demonstration/screencast; while an interactive system or demo is not required for submissions to the Industry Track.
  • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only.
  • All submissions are single-blind reviewed, and hence, authors do not need anonymization.
  • 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.
  • All submissions must not be under review for any other publishing forum or presentation venue (including conferences, workshops, and journals) during the time they are being considered for BESC 2026.
  • Furthermore, after you submit to BESC 2026, you must await our response and only resubmit elsewhere if your demo is rejected (or withdrawn at your request). This restriction applies to identical submissions as well as to submissions with a substantial overlap in scientific content and results.
  • 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

  • Dr. Xin Li, iFlyTek, China (leexin[at]ustc.edu.cn)
  • Dr. Runze Wu, NetEase, China
  • Dr. Zhiyuan Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China