SBP-BRiMS 2020-2022 Conference Sponsorship
Abstract
Social computing and behavioral modeling lie at the intersection of various disciplines such as sociology, behavioral science, psychology, anthropology, mathematics, economics, computer science, information systems, physics, health sciences, and operations research. Research in social computing and behavioral modeling is designed to achieve a better understanding of social interactions, complex behaviors, contextual patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. The state-of-the-art in this field requires an interdisciplinary set of skills to address challenges arising from health, culture, and society. Further, the rapid growth of the Internet and the sheer volume of data being generated on daily basis by millions of online users on disparate issues provide a significant opportunity for discovery through an intelligent mining and analysis of the big data. Such an intelligent analysis calls for a collaborative effort between mathematicians, computer scientists, statisticians and social scientists on one hand, and with domain specific experts, such as health professionals, economists, and security experts. The Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS) conference is a platform for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines in this rapidly developing area of research to interact, discuss and disseminate on research issues that are central to its progress and to encourage new collaborations that are essential to its steady development and healthy evolution. Based on the success of its previous editions in the last 12 years (2008 through 2019), we plan to continue organizing the SBP-BRiMS conference yearly and make it a premier event in the confluence of social, behavioral, cultural, and health research. This conference has been consistently growing over the years and incorporated several initiatives, such as cross-fertilization roundtable session (or, scientific speed dating), data challenge, doctoral consortium, encourage participation from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty who are typically in need for travel support and benefit tremendously from scientific meetings. These efforts have resulted in some great successes. AROÕs support over the past years helped partially cover the costs of keynote, tutorial speakers, graduate students, and early-career researchers that furthered our goal of making the conference truly interdisciplinary and attract early career researchers. With support from ARO, we intend to build upon the successful strategies and during the next three years. Specifically, we aim to (1) further grow the conference and (2) increase avenues to encourage participation from gender, ethnic, racial, and disciplinary minorities. The meetings in 2020, 2021, and 2022, will follow the successful format of 2019, evolved from the experience and feedback obtained in the previous yearsÕ meetings. SBP-BRiMS is a highly interdisciplinary conference that offers a rare and exciting opportunity for behavioral and social science researchers to come together with computational scientists and other related disciplines. It provides opportunities for training, professional development, and community building via keynote presentations, tutorials, paper and poster presentations, challenge session, doctoral consortium, and cross-fertilization roundtable session. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers from behavioral and social science to come together with researchers from mathematics and computational sciences and other related disciplines and seeks to attract graduate students, practitioners, and program staff from federal agencies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 25, 2021
- Source ID
- W911NF2110102
Entities
People
- Nitin Agarwal
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock