2025 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2025)

Date: 16-18 October 2025
Location: Hong Kong, China
Conference Website: https://ais.cn/u/m22eaa

The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from various fields such as artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences. The conference aims to present updated research efforts and progress on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics, exchange new ideas, and identify future research directions.

Call For Papers

The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Social network analysis
• Semantic web
• Collective intelligence
• Social recommendation
• Social influence and social contagions
• New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science
• Digital humanities
• Crowd dynamics
• Virtual communities
• Decision analytics
• Societal impacts of information systems
• Web mining and its social interpretations
• Human behaviour and information systems
• Behaviour change
• Technology and wellbeing
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
• Opinion mining and social media analytics
• Credibility of online content
• Personalization for individuals, groups, and populations
• Privacy, perceived security, and trust
• Ethics of computational research on human behaviour
• AI and large language models in social and behavioural computing

Publication

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. Top-quality papers will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals.

Important Dates

• Submission of Research-track Papers: 15 June 2025
• Acceptance Notification: 01 August 2025
• Camera-ready Submission: 01 September 2025
• Author Registration: 01 September 2025
• Conference Date: 16-18 October 2025

Paper Submission

Please send the full paper (Word + PDF) to the Submission System: https://ais.cn/u/m22eaa