International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP)

The SBP conference series provides a forum in which behavioral and social science researchers come together with scientists from computational and other related disciplines, in order to discuss state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on social computing and behavioral-cultural modeling.

Social computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior and social context. Behavioral-cultural modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario planning. Both are inherently interdisciplinary, and both provide ways to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest.

The SBP conference series is the result of merging two successful international conferences on closely related subjects: the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP) and the International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD). The combined conference retains the acronym SBP, with “Behavioral” replaced by “Behavioral-Cultural”.

Sponsors of our conferences have included the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD), and Arizona State University's School of Computing and Informatics.