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 (Shanghai, China), BESC 2015 (Nanjing, China), BESC 2016 (Durham, USA), BESC 2017 (Krakow, Poland), BESC 2018 (Kaohsiung, China), BESC 2019 (Beijing, China), BESC 2020 (Bournemouth, UK), BESC 2021 (Doha, Qatar), BESC 2022 (Ehime, Japan), BESC 2023 (Larnaca, Cyprus), BESC 2024 (Harbin, China), and BESC 2025 (Hong Kong, China), BESC 2026 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from 26-28 October 2026.

Important Dates

Topics of Interest

BESC 2026 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

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 and each paper must be no longer than 20 pages (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.
• Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals (TBC), including:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (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)
• 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.

Contacts

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