TOPICS:
Submissions are solicited on research issues, methodologies, theories, and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Advances in Sociocultural & Behavioral Process Modeling Agent-based modeling
Group formation, interaction, and/or evolution
Collective action and governance
Cultural patterns & representation
Social conventions, social contexts and processes
Influence process, recognition, and diffusion
Public opinion representation, identification and modeling
Psycho-cultural situation awareness
Intelligent agents and avatars/adversarial modeling
Models of reasoning and decision making
Performance prediction, assessment, & skill monitoring/tracking
Intelligent tutoring systems
Cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction
Human behavior issues in model federations
Information, Systems, & Network Science
Data mining on social media platforms
Diffusion and other dynamic processes over networks
Inference of network topologies and changes overtime
Analysis of link formations and link types
Detection of communities and other types of structures in networks
Analysis of high-dimensional networks
Analytics for social and human dynamics
Military, Cyber, & Intelligence Applications
Group formation and evolution in the political context
Networks and political influence
Group representation and profiling
Reasoning about terrorist group behaviors and policies towards them
Cyber and attribution
Computational methods to transform traditional GEOINT and open source data into spatio-temporal information describing events and activities
Health and Well-being
Social network analysis to understand health behavior
Modeling of public health and health care policy and decision making
Modeling of behavioral aspects of infectious disease spread
Modeling of behavioral aspects of prevention and treatment for chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, obesity)
Intervention design and modeling for behavioral health
Example Other Applications of Interest to the Community
Economic applications of behavioral and social prediction
Model federation, integration, verification, or validation
Evolutionary computing and optimization
Education, training, professional development and workforce training in modeling and simulation