Call for Papers (PDF)
Paper and Source File Upload Deadline: January 6, 2012
Submission Deadline: November 11, 2011 November 4, 2011
Registration Deadline: November 4, 2011 October 28, 2001
Paper Registration and Submission
The paper registration deadline is November 4, 2011. You must register your paper for submission by this date to be eligible to upload your manuscript for the paper submission deadline November 11, 2011. This lead time helps us estimate submission volume.
To register your paper on the Springer OCS paper submission site:
- Go to http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/SBP2012. Set up an account if you do not already have one.
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Register your paper through the ‘Submission’ tab.
- Though titled ‘Submit Abstract’, you need not submit an abstract at this time. You can put in additional keywords or repeat your paper title in the abstract box.
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Please select a label from the following choices. This is to match reviewers with
papers near their domain of expertise.
- Military and Security, Health Sciences, Economics, Methodology, Computational and Information Sciences, or Other
- Under ‘Sessions,’ please select whether the paper should be considered as a student paper. A full-time student should be the primary author for a student paper.
- You can enter additional keywords to facilitate the alignment of reviewers and papers.
- Please return to the submission site before the paper submission deadline to upload your manuscript.
Topics of Interest
Papers and posters are solicited on
research issues, theories, and applications. Topics of interests include, but
are not limited to,
· Military and security applications
of SBP
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Group
formation and evolution in the political context
o
Technology
and flash crowds
o
Networks
and political influence
o
Information
diffusion
o
Group
representation and profiling
o
Reasoning
about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
· Health applications of SBP
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Social
network analysis to understand health behavior
o
Modeling
of health policy and decision making
o
Modeling
of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
o
Intervention
design and modeling for behavioral health
· Other applications of
SBP
o
Economic applications of SBP
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Reasoning about development aid through SBP
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Reasoning about global educational efforts through SBP
· Basic research on sociocultural and
behavioral processes using SBP
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Group
interaction and collaboration
o
Group
formation and evolution
o
Group
representation and profiling
o
Cultural
patterns and representation
o
Social
conventions and social contexts
o
Influence
process and recognition
o
Public
opinion representation
o
Viral
marketing and information diffusion
o
Psycho-cultural
situation awareness
· Methodological issues in SBP
o
Verification
and validation
o
Sensitivity
analysis
o
Matching
technique or method to research questions
o
Metrics
and evaluation
o
Methodological
innovation
o
Model
federation and integration
o
Limitations
of and barriers to SBP
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Research
gaps and opportunities
Important Dates
Submission Open:
October 1, 2011
Paper Registration Deadline: Friday,
November 4, 2011
Paper/full text poster Due: Friday, November
11, 2011
Notification of
acceptance: December 19, 2011
Camera-Ready:
December 31, 2011
Format and Submission
SBP12
Conference Proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LCNS) by Springer. The papers must be in English and MUST be formatted
according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI guidelines. Sample LaTeX2e and WORD
files are available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Abstract and full text for both oral presentations and posters should be
submitted electronically before the specified deadlines. The maximum length of
papers is 8 pages and should be submitted in PDF following the instruction in http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/callforpapers.html. For
any questions and inquiries, please send to sbp-tpc@lists.hawaii.edu.