MABS2000
2nd International Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation
8th-9th July 2000
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Boston MA, USA
Because of the large number of high quality papers received for the MABS
Workshop federated with ICMAS2000 in Boston, the workshop has been
extended to two days. It will now begin on the afternoon of Saturday,
8th July 2000 and finish at the end of the following day, Sunday 9th
July.
The first MABS workshop, at the last ICMAS, had as its aim "to develop
stronger links between those working in the social sciences, for whom
agent based simulation has the potential to be a valuable research tool,
and those involved with multi-agent simulation, for whom the social
sciences can provide useful theories and exemplars." Since that
workshop, discussions among social scientists and computer scientists in
the multiagent systems community (for example in AgentLink, the European
network of excellence for MAS research) have helped to focus the
exploration of how representational social simulation and associated
methodologies can inform the specification of agents and support the
analysis of emergent properties of large-scale complex systems. The
second MABS workshop extends this development within a framework
intended to provide for substantial discussion.
MABS2000 has, I believe, an important set of papers that, individually
and taken together, will be important influences on the future
development of agent research for large, complex software systems and,
in particular, for agent based social simulation models. Important
methodological and conceptual issues are addressed by these papers.
In addition to the pre-proceedings, the papers will be made available
on-line and in advance to accepted participants.
The list of the 15 accepted papers is at
<http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/mabs/accepted.html>.
The programme is available at <http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/mabs/>
There are a few places left for participants in addition to the authors
of accepted papers. Registration for the workshop is via the ICMAS web
site <http://icmas.lania.mx/>. I would be grateful if intending
participants (other than authors) would send me a couple of paragraphs
indicating how their work and interests relate to the MABS2000
programme.
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Professor Scott Moss
Director
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Aytoun Building
Manchester M1 3GH
UNITED KINGDOM
telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~scott
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