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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Last Call for 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) and the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">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;">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;"><u>E-mails for submission of Special Session Proposals:</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au / yuting AT zhejianglab.com</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>
<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;">Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 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>
<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;"> Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</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;"> Ji Zhang, University of Southern </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Queensland, 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>Special Session Chairs</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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au)</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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com)</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>Doctoral Symposium 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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy</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>Panel and Tutorial 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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China</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>
<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;">Md Rafiqul Islam, 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>Publicity Chairs</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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore</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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia</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;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India</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>Webmaster</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;"> </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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