About Us
Welcome
Welcome to the IEEE Task Force on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (TF-BESC). TF-BESC was first established in 2014 by Prof Longbing Cao at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The TF-BESC website is maintained by the UTS Data Science Lab.
Motivation
Quantifying behaviors, economy, society, and culture is fundamental for a quantitative understanding of these important entities and aspects. This requires the development of computing methodologies, theories, techniques, and tools for behavior informatics/computing, social Informatics/computing, economic computing, and cultural computing. This requires to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge and capacity, such as in statistics, informatics, computing, behavioral sciences, and social sciences.
Objectives
The TF-BESC aims to promote the research, innovation, and application of BESC-related problems, theories, methodologies, techniques, tools, and applications. Examples are behavior/social/economic/cultural modeling and representation, analysis, learning, mining, utility and impact modeling, as well as evidence-based BESC management and decision. The task force encourages research collaborations and professional activities in the areas related to BESC.