SBP-BRiMS is a multidisciplinary conference with a selective single paper track and poster session. The conference also invites a small number of high quality tutorials and nationally recognized keynote speakers. The goal of this conference is to build a new community of social cyber scholars by bringing together and fostering interaction between members of the scientific, corporate, government and military communities interested in understanding, forecasting, and impacting human socio-cultural behavior. It is the charge to this community to build this new science, its theories, methods, and its scientific culture in a way that does not give priority to either social science or computer science, and to embrace change as the cornerstone of the community. Despite decades of work in this area, this scientific field is still in its infancy.
To meet this charge and move this science to the next level, this community must meet the following three challenges: 1) deep understanding of socio-cognitive reasoning, 2) human-technology integration, 3) and re-usable computational methods. Topics include but are not limited to the following: