The 11th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing (BDSC 2026), which is organized by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and co-hosted by the CAAI Technical Committee on Social Computing and Social Intelligence (SCSI) and Chongqing University, will be held in Chongqing, China, from July 24 to 26, 2026. The theme of BDSC 2026 is “Towards Human-Machine Symbiosis in Social Computing.” With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, we are moving from the stage of intelligent tool assistance to a new era of deep integration and co-evolution between humans and machine intelligence, a true human-machine symbiosis. This profound transformation brings both unprecedented challenges and opportunities to the theoretical foundations, methodological innovations, and application paradigms of social computing. BDSC 2026 welcomes academic papers from across the country in this emerging and interdisciplinary field. The conference aims to explore fundamental scientific questions in the context of human-machine symbiosis, including but not limited to: decision-making mechanisms and collective intelligence in human-machine collaboration; social cognition and ethical frameworks for human-machine trust; social behaviors and interaction patterns in cyber-physical spaces; and novel governance models and applications for symbiotic societies. The conference seeks to foster the exchange of cutting-edge research ideas, identify key scientific challenges, and envision a future blueprint for social computing that promotes harmony between humans and intelligent systems, contributing to the sustainable integration of technological progress and social development.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The conference will organize experts to conduct a double-blind review of all submitted papers. Outstanding papers in English will be compiled into a collection and published by Springer Publishing House. Excellent papers in Chinese will be recommended for publication in journals such as “Journal of Computer Research and Development (SI),” “Computer Science,” “Intelligent Society Research,” and “Journal of Intelligent Science and Technology.” All accepted papers will be presented in the form of dedicated posters for communication, and on-site awards will be given for “Best Paper” and “Most Popular Paper.”

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsc2026

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List of Topics

• Modeling and Simulation of Social Systems
• Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
• Social Networks and Collective Behavior
• Social Geography and Urban Computing
• Artificial Intelligence and Population Development
• Digital Infrastructure and Intelligent Society
• Data Ownership, Pricing, and Circulation
• Digital Society and Public Security
• Digital Government and Public Big Data
• Digital Technologies and Social Resilience
• Digital Transformation of Social Governance
• Digital Platform Construction and Governance
• Computational Social Systems and Systems Engineering
• Data Ethics and Privacy Protection
• Smart Judiciary: Transformations and Challenges
• Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development
• Governance of Intelligent Algorithms on the Internet
• Metaverse and Social Computing
• Policy Practices for Digital Transformation
• Resilient Governance of Megacities
• Urbanization and Digital Governance
• Low-Carbon Economy and Green Innovation
• Climate Change and Energy Policy
• Human Mobility Computing and Applications
• Virtual Humans and Digital Personas in Society
• Legal and Policy Frameworks for Human-Machine Symbiosis
• Paradigms of Social Computing for Human-Machine Symbiosis
• Human-Machine Empathy in Multimodal Interaction
• Collective Intelligence and Human-Machine Collaboration Mechanisms
• Human-Machine Co-Creation and Innovation Ecosystems
• Knowledge Generation and Dissemination in Human-Machine Collaboration

Committees

Program Committee

• Tao Xiang (Chongqing University)
• Guoyin Wang (Chongqing Normal University)
• Tao Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
• Linjiang Zheng (Chongqing University)
• Zi Li (Chongqing Technology and Business University)
• Pinghui Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Organizing committee

• Jiang Zhong (Chongqing University)
• Tao Jia (Chongqing Normal University)
• Xiaolin Zhou (East China Normal University)
• Yang Yue (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• Jiaxing Shang (Chongqing University)
• Chunyan An (Inner Mongolia University)
• Xuefeng Chen (Chongqing University)
• Shaoguo Cui (Chongqing Normal University)
• Yingnan Cong (China University of Political Science and Law)
• Youzhong Ma (Luoyang Normal University)
• Dongsheng Zou (Chongqing University)
• Hongmei Chen (Yunnan University)
• Hao Chen (Nankai University)
• Shuai Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Xiangguo Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Xiaoxue Gao (East China Normal University)
• Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia)
• Ruiyuan Li (Chongqing University)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Jiaxing Shang (Chongqing University, shangjx@cqu.edu.cn)