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2015 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic 

and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2015)

30 October – 1 November, 2015, Nanjing, China

http://besc2015.njue.edu.cn

Call for Special Sessions 

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BESC 2015 aims to increase potential collaborations and partnerships 

by bringing together academic researchers and industry practitioners 

from data mining, statistics and analytics, business and marketing, 

finance and politics, and behavior, economic, social and psychological 

sciences with the objectives to present updated research efforts and 

progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of 

BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.

The Program Committees of the International Conference on Behavioral, 

Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2015) invites proposals 

for Special Sessions to be held during the conference in 30 October – 

1 November, 2015, Nanjing, China. The special sessions intend to 

provide an opportunity to researchers to present and discuss their 

work in  focused areas, as well as to offer a forum for interaction 

among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session will consist 

of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of computing related to human 

behaviors, economy, and social and cultural issues related to the main 

topics of BESC 2015. The papers will be required to meet the same 

standards as BESC 2015 papers and will be published by IEEE in the 

conference proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. 

Special sessions will also form part of the main conference program.

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PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

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Please send the Special Session proposals to Xiaohui Tao (xtao@usq.edu.au) 

or BAntoaneta Serguieva (A.Serguieva@cs.ucl.ac.uk) with the following 

information:

  1.  Title of the special session

  2.  Names of the special session organizers, the affiliations, the postal

      mailing addresses, and the e-mail addresses

  3.  Short CV of the organizers

  4.  Publication lists of the organizers (no more than 20)

  5.  A description of the topics of the special session (not exceeding 200

      words)

  6.  Description of how the special session will contribute to the field of

      Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing

  7.  Short description on how the special session will be advertised so as

      to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers

  8.  Expected number of paper submissions

  9.  Information about previous offerings of the proposed special session 

      by BESC series or other forums (if any).

  10. List of potential Program Committee members (if applicable)

  11. Information on the potential invited talk(s), and sponsorship (if any)

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ORGANIZATIONAL RULES

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The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion 

of the special session and the conference including the Special Session 

webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by 

Special Session Committees, using the Conference Submission System (a separate 

EasyChair track will be provided for each accepted Special Session). 

The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All 

the reviews should be submitted through the provided EasyChair track. 

Each paper should obtain at least three reviews. 

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Special Session Proposals: April 19, 2015

Special Session Notification: April 29, 2015

Submission of papers to collocated events: June 17, 2015

Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2015

Camera ready papers: August 30, 2015

Conference dates: October 30 - November 1, 2015

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SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS

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Xiaohui Tao, Universidad of Southern Queensland, Australia

Antoaneta Serguieva, University College London, United Kingdom

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2015 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural 

Computing (BESC 2015)

30 October – 1 November, 2015, Nanjing, China 

Website: http://besc2015.njue.edu.cn