19th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation

SBP-BRiMS 2026

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.

Social Computing harnesses the power of computational methods to study social behavior, such as during team collaboration. Cultural Behavioral Modeling refers to representing behavior and culture in the abstract, and is a convenient and powerful way to conduct virtual experiments and scenario analysis. Both social computing and cultural behavioral modeling are techniques designed to achieve a better understanding of complex behaviors, patterns, and associated outcomes of interest. Moreover, these approaches are inherently interdisciplinary; subsystems and system components exist at multiple levels of analysis (i.e., “cells to societies”) and across multiple disciplines, from engineering and the computational sciences to the social and health sciences.

The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to meet, share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission: 22-Jun-2026
Author Notification: 15-Jul-2026
Final Files Due: 22-Jul-2026

Submission of Panels, Challenge Solutions, Tutorials & Working Papers: 21-Aug-2026
Author Notification: 4-Sep-2026
Final Files Due: 1-Oct-2026

Venue

Carnegie Mellon University & Online

Contact

sbpbrims@andrew.cmu.edu