Year: 2019
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Welcome MessageOn behalf of the organizing committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Beijing, China for the 6th International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC 2019).BESC is a premier forum in which academic researchers and industry practitioners from data mining, artificial intelligence, statistics and analytics, business and marketing, finance and politics, and behavioral, economic, social and psychological sciences could present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.Following the successful BESC'14 in Shanghai, China, BESC'15 in Nanjing, China, BESC'16 in Durham, NC, USA, BESC'17 in Krakow, Poland, BESC'18 in Kaohsiung, BESC'19 will take place in Beijing, China.We have a three-day attractive program consisting of keynote and invited talks, main track technical paper oral presentations, and special sessions in several popular topics.This year, we received 87 high-quality submissions from 12 countries to both the main an special tracks.The submission number set a record over the last five years, reflecting the growing boom of new information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and advanced computing all over the world.The paper selection process was very competitive.From these submissions, 18 (20.7%)were accepted as regular papers.Each submitted paper was considered by the Program Committee (PC) members and external reviewers, and evaluated against criteria such as relevance, significance, technical soundness, novelty, and clarity.Every paper received at least two reviews, in most cases three, and in some cases up to five.Finally, the program co-chairs read the reviews, the original papers, and called for additional reviews if necessary to make final decisions.The entire review team (PC members, external reviewers, and co-chairs) expended tremendous effort to ensure fairness and consistency in the paper selection process.The success of BESC 2019 would not have be possible without the effort and support of numerous people from all over the world.First of all, we would like to thank the Program Committee members and external reviewers for their engagements in providing rigorous and timely reviews.It was because of them that the quality of the papers in this volume is maintained at a high level.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4236668821