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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Fourth Call for Papers ***</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;">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>
<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 behaviour</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;">Social network analysis</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;">Semantic web</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;">Collective intelligence</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;">Security, privacy, trust in social contexts</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;">Social recommendation</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;">Social influence and social contagions</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;">Quantifying offline phenomena through online data</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;">Forecasting of social phenomena</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;">Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science</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;">Social media and health behaviours</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;">Social psychology and personality</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;">New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science</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>
<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;">Digital media</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;">Digital humanities</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;">Digital games and learning</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;">Digital footprints and privacy</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;">Crowd dynamics</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;">Digital arts</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;">Digital healthcare</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;">Activity streams and experience design</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;">Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)</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>
<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;">E-Business</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;">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>
<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;">Societal impacts of IS</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;">Human behaviour and IS</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;">IS in healthcare</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;">IS security and privacy</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;">IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts</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;">Service science and IS</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>
<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;">Web mining and its social interpretations</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;">Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining</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;">Opinion mining and social media 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;">Credibility of online content</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 Linguistics</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;">Mining big social data</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;">Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics</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>Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics</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;">Behaviour change</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;">Positive technology</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;">Personalization for individuals, groups and populations</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;">Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation</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;">Web dynamics and personalization</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;">Privacy, perceived security and trust</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;">Technology and Wellbeing</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;">Ethics of computational research on human behaviour</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>
<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;">E-Learning and M-Learning</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;">Open and Distance Learning</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;">User modeling and personalization in TEL</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;">TEL in secondary and in higher education</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;">New tools for TEL</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers 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>Prediction</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;"><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>
<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 papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF </span></div>
<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>
<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;">The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices).</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;">Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">desk-rejected without review.</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;">Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or</span></div>
<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>
<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;">Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, </span></div>
<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>
<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;">Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be </span></div>
<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>
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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;">The use of artificial intelligence (AI)generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">generate the text.</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 accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers</span></div>
<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>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;"> Submission of all papers: 15 July 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;"> Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 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;"></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;">Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 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;">Author Registration: 1 October 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;"><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;"></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;"></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</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</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;">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;"></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>
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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;">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;"></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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