Announcement: 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction

The 2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10), the largest conference devoted to social science-related research in computer science, will be held March 29-April 1 on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus in Bethesda, MD near Washington D.C.   (Short) paper and poster submissions should be submitted by November 6.  As in past years, there will be opportunities to hear presentations from and talk to representatives of the largest federal funding agencies for scholarly research, including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research.  Conference proceedings will be published as a book in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer/Verlag.  More information, including the call for papers and previous years's programs, can be found at the conference website <http://sbp.asu.edu/>.
I am co-program chair this year, and am particularly interested in gaining the participation of more social scientists in order to make this a fully interdisciplinary conference.  This year, we will be featuring some unique events designed to promote that interchange.  The first day will be devoted to tutorial sessions, including those on computer science methods for social scientists and vice versa.  Tutorials tentatively scheduled include introductions to principles of agent-based simulation; comparisons of network models in sociology, economics, and physics; and application of computational behavioral models to public health.  If you have a proposal for a tutorial, particularly one introducing methods from the mathematical social sciences to outsiders, please send them directly to me at <sunki@hawaii.edu> by November 6.    The last half-day will be devoted to informal round tables to bring together social and computer scientists for intellectual cross-fertilization, as well as for forming interdisciplinary, interuniversity teams that could work together on grant applications.  I welcome suggestions for topics to be covered at these roundtables.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you,

Sun-Ki Chai

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