SBP 2012 Outreach Efforts to Increase Diversity and Participation of Minorities

这笔资金用于增加2012年4月2日至5日在马里兰大学学院公园举行的社会计算、行为-文化建模和预测（SBP）会议的参与多样性。SBP会议为协作和探索性研究提供了一个国际平台，推动了新兴的跨学科社会计算领域。它吸引了来自学术界、工业界和政府的行为建模和社会计算领域的领先研究人员，他们解决了医疗保健、隐私和组织等领域的行为建模、分析、模式挖掘和预测问题。对以往SBP会议出席情况的分析发现，在参加会议方面存在严重的性别和种族不平等，而且这个新的跨学科领域的学科多样性低于预期。项目活动包括(a)有针对性地向女性、西班牙裔、非裔美国人、历史上的黑人学院和大学以及EPSCoR（刺激竞争性研究的实验计划）州的学校进行推广；(b)有针对性地向代表人数不足的与SPB有关的学科进行外展；(c)对已拒绝发表论文的同一类别的学校和学科的作者给予特别邀请；(d)征集来自同一类别学校和学科的学生志愿者；(e)鼓励为会议期间举行的小组会议选择多样化的发言人。小额旅费补助和/或会议费用减免将用于鼓励参与。更广泛的影响：通过扩大对SBP会议的参与，该项目将为跨学科边界的互动提供新的机会，培养创造性的新方法来思考社会计算和行为建模中的问题。此外，该项目将鼓励弱势群体成员通过培训、专业发展和社区建设参与STEM研究。

This is funding to increase diversity of participation in the Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP) 2012 conference, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, from April 2-5, 2012. The SBP conference provides an international platform for collaborative and exploratory research that advances the emerging interdisciplinary field of social computing. It attracts leading researchers in behavioral modeling and social computing from academia, industry and government, who address issues of behavior modeling, analysis, pattern mining, and prediction in domains such as healthcare, privacy, and organizations.Analysis of attendance at previous SBP conferences has found substantial gender and racial inequalities in participation in the conference, and less disciplinary diversity than desired for this new interdisciplinary field. Project activities include (a) targeted outreach to female, Hispanic, African-American, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and schools in EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) states; (b) targeted outreach to underrepresented academic disciplines relevant to SPB;(c) special invitations to participate for authors in the same categories of schools and disciplines who have had a paper declined; (d) solicitations for student volunteers from the same categories of schools and disciplines; and (e) encouraging diversity in the selection of speakers for the panels held during the conference. Small travel grants and/or conference fee waivers will be used to encourage participation.Broader Impacts: By broadening participation in the SBP conference, this project will provide new opportunities for interaction across disciplinary boundaries, fostering creative new ways of thinking about problems in social computing and behavior modeling. In addition, the project will encourage members of disadvantaged groups to become involved in STEM research through training, professional development, and community building.