Second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Predi

描述（由申请人提供）：第二届社会计算、行为建模和预测国际研讨会（SBP '09）定于2009年3月31日和4月1日在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行。在此之前，2008年4月1日和2日举行了非常成功的第一次活动（SBP '08，http：//www.public.asu.edu/sphuanliu/sbp08）。SBP '08的高出席率、热烈的讨论和强烈的兴趣使组委会受到极大的鼓舞。SBP '08会议在SBP' 08期间和之后收到了极好的回应，可以在亚马逊上找到。基于与会者的积极反馈以及对这一新兴和跨学科领域持续平台的迫切需求，组委会决定扩大成功并组织第二次研讨会。新的研讨会网站是www.example.com。 公共卫生相关性：社会计算关注的是基于计算系统的社会行为和社会背景的研究。行为建模再现了社会行为，并允许实验，场景规划和对行为，模式和潜在结果的深入理解。计算机和互联网技术的普遍使用为各种社会活动提供了前所未有的环境。社会计算促进了模型构建、分析、模式挖掘和预测中的行为建模。许多跨学科和相互依存的系统被创建并用于代表各种社会和物理系统，以研究群体，社区或民族国家之间的相互作用。这需要共同努力，利用来自多个学科、社会计算和行为建模的最先进的研究，以记录经验教训，并在社会、物理、心理和政府机制方面开发新的理论、实验和方法。我们的目标是使我们能够实验，创造和重建一个操作环境，更好地了解每个学科的贡献，建立跨学科的联合努力。为了实现这些目标，并促进这一新兴领域，有必要建立一个平台，使研究人员能够传播和讨论这一领域相关研究的结果。这样一个平台可以帮助促进这一高影响力研究课题的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The second International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP' 09) is scheduled to be held in Phoenix, Arizona on March 31 and April 1, 2009. This workshop was preceded by a very successful first event (SBP' 08, http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp08) on April 1 and 2, 2008. The organizing committee was extremely encouraged by high attendance, lively discussion, and strong interest at SBP'08. The SBP'08 proceedings received excellent response during SBP'08 and afterwards, which can be found at Amazon. Based on the positive feedback from the attendees and a pressing need for a continued platform for this emerging and interdisciplinary field, the organizing committee decided to extend the success and organize a second workshop. The new workshop website is at http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp09. Public Health Relevance: Project Narrative Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and allows for experimenting, scenario planning, and deep understanding of behavior, patterns, and potential outcomes. The pervasive use of computer and Internet technologies provides an unprecedented environment of various social activities. Social computing facilitates behavioral modeling in model building, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction. Numerous interdisciplinary and interdependent systems are created and used to represent the various social and physical systems for investigating the interactions between groups, communities, or nation-states. This requires joint efforts to take advantage of the state-of-the-art research from multiple disciplines, social computing, and behavioral modeling in order to document lessons learned and develop novel theories, experiments, and methodologies in terms of social, physical, psychological, and governmental mechanisms. The goal is to enable us to experiment, create, and recreate an operational environment with a better understanding of the contributions from each individual discipline, forging joint interdisciplinary efforts. To achieve these goals and to promote this emerging area, a platform is necessitated wherein researchers can disseminate and discuss the results from related research in this area. Such a platform can help promote the growth of this high-impact research topic.