CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FIRST LAKE ARROWHEAD CONFERENCE on COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
AGENT-BASED MODELING in the SOCIAL SCIENCES
Thursday, May 9th to Sunday, May 12th, 2002.

The UCLA Conference Center is located at Lake Arrowhead, a Southern
California facility situated at the 5000 elevation in the Beautiful San
Bernardino mountains.
It is about a two-hour drive from the Los Angeles International Airport. Map

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An opportunity to advance agent modeling in the social sciences.

We invite social scientists who employ computational ideas and methods in
their research and teaching to join us for the first annual Lake Arrowhead
Conference on agent modeling.

The conference will serve as a forum for sharing the most recent
theoretical applications and methodological advances on agent modeling
throughout the social sciences (e.g., Anthropology, Communication Studies,
Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban
Planning) and among social scientists in professional schools (e.g.,
Business, Education, International Relations, Public Health, Public Policy,
Social Welfare) and in the public and private sectors.

We are planning for a mix of plenary sessions as well as concurrent
sessions on computational modeling issues, discipline-based research, and
special topics to be proposed. We invite individual paper submissions and
proposals for sessions (90 minutes each).

WE INVITE THE FOLLOWING PAPER & SESSION TOPICS

Agent Modeling Methodologies
Modeling Approaches - Evolutionary Computation, Cellular Automata, Genetic
Algorithms, Neural Nets, Simulated Annealing
Model Design Issues - Population Complexity, Agent Complexity, Spatial
Complexity)
Robustness and Validity Issues
Intersections with Mathematics, Human Experiments, Social Epistemology
Artificial Societies and Artificial Cultures
Physical and Virtual Robot Societies and Cultures
Complexity/Chaos Theory
Emergent Social Structure
Social Network Dynamics
Spatial Analysis
Game Theory
Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence and Distributed Cognition
Governance, Centralization, Decentralization
Agent-Related Systems Dynamics
Public and Private Sector Applications
Topics of Your Choice
We encourage papers at the cutting-edge of multi-agent modeling that are
relevant to the social science community.

Signed, the Co-Directors of the UCLA Center for Computational Social Science:

Phil Bonacich
Nicholas Gessler
Susanne Lohmann
Bill McKelvey
Dwight Read


SCHEDULE

Abstracts must be received no later than October 15, 2001.
Participants will be notified of acceptance no later than November 1, 2001.
Payments must be received within one month of proposal acceptance and no
later than December 1, 2001.
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE


PAPER PROPOSALS:
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email us at
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your full contact information including:
name
affiliation
email address
web site URL
postal mail address
home and work phone.
a 300-word abstract

SESSION PROPOSALS:
If you wish to propose a session (90-120 minutes containing 3-4 individual
papers), please email us at [log in to unmask] with:

full contact information for each participant including:
name
affiliation
email address
web site URL
postal mail address
home and work phone.
a 300-word abstract for each participant
an additional 300-word session proposal

Once your proposal is accepted you will be invited to submit your
registration fee.
Your name, affiliation, email address, Web site URL, paper title, and
abstract will be made public and posted on our conference web site.

FEES AND PAYMENT

Checks should be payable to "UC Regents" and sent to:
Center for Computational Social Science
4289 Bunche Hall
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

Credit Card Payments:
Arrangements are being made.


REGISTRATION fees include admittance to all conference activities (except
meals and accommodations).

free for the media
$50 for students
$150 for academic and public sector employees
$250 for private sector employees

UCLA CONFERENCE CENTER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS fees include luxury suites
and all meals.

$150 for one day/night
$300 for two days/nights
$450 for three days/nights (the entire conference)
only 100 suites are available

OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS may be reserved and paid individually by
conference participants in the nearby Lake Arrowhead Village and other
communities. We offer the following links to assist you in this endeavor.


ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE

Participants should arrive for dinner at 6:00pm Thursday evening, May 9th.
The conference will end Saturday evening. Participants should leave after
breakfast (8-9am) on Sunday.
We expect relatively light traffic for the Thursday afternoon and Sunday
morning drives to and from Los Angeles.

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Center for Computational Social Science
4289 Bunche Hall
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472