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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><a href="http://besc-conf.org/2023/">http://besc-conf.org/2023/</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) (currently pending</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">approval for the 2023 edition) and the proceedings are published by IEEE</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Computational models of social phenomena</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Social influence and social contagions</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Digital Humanities</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Information Management and Information Systems (IS)</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Decision analytics</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Computational finance</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Natural Language Processing</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023</a></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> .</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Please note:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #262626;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">desk-rejected without review.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">work.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">issues that will be organised for BESC 2023.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">pages in length, and contain the following:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(i) Title of the proposed Special Session.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">as to why it fits into the themes of BESC.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">undertake, if their proposal is accepted.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submission of Special Session proposals: 10 April 2023</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>ORGANISATION</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Steering Committee Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>General Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Program Chairs</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Symposium Chair</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Proceedings Chair</u></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">•</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</span></div>
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