ICCCD 2009 - Call for Participation - Early registration ends Nov. 20th

Third International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics

Registration for the Third International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD 2009) is now open. Register early for a discounted rate. Early registration ends November 20th, 2009. ICCCD 2009 is a unique conference that brings together researchers from a variety of social and technological sciences in order to facilitate reasoning about groups in diverse cultures. Conference information is available at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/icccd2009/ and the registration form is available at https://intranet.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/icccd2009/reg.htm Papers and speakers at the conference will be addressing a broad range of topics that highlight the potential of joint effort between computational and behavioral sciences. Papers are being presented on such diverse topics as modeling insurgencies and piracy in Somalia, SCARE (Spatial Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine) which can help predict weapons cache locations in an urban environment, and a tool used to map the Indonesian blogosphere. The invited talks will include presentations by such scholar-practitioners as Cmdr. Dylan Schmorrow, the Assistant Director of Human Systems at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Hon. Romain Murenzi, Rwanda's Minister of Science and Technology. The conference will be held on December 7-8, 2009 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The full program can be found at http://umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/icccd2009/program.html