Apologies for multiple postings...

Deadline for MABS 2002 was extended for 22 April.

Official Site: http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs02

Jaime

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We are happy to announce:

MABS'02
3rd. International Workshop on Multiagent Based Simulation (MABS'02)
(http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs02)

as part of AAMAS 2002, Bologna, Italy
(http://www.autonomousagents.org/2002/)

July 15/16, 2002

This workshop in the third of the MABS series. The earlier two have been
organised as
workshops of the last two ICMAS Conferences.

An important trend, which is the topic of AAMAS 2002, is the research on
interactions
between people and agent based methodology. The MABS 2002 workshop will
focus on
these aspects of interactions between societies of artificial agents and
human societies.
The aim is still to develop stronger links between those working in social
sciences and
those involved with multi-agent simulations. On the one hand, the first
human societies
MABS is confronted with are the scientific communities. Many important
conferences in
various disciplines such as geography, economics, ecology, sociology, and
physics have
hosted workshops on MABS-related topics and many respected journals publish
papers
that includes elements of MABS.

Although MABS is gradually acquiring legitimacy in many disciplinary fields,
much has to be
done to clarify the potential use of MABS in these disciplines. Researchers
from these
disciplines have different points of view on issues such as time-frame,
space, geographical
scales, organizational levels, etc... On the other hand, the interest for
MABS goes beyond
the scientific communities. Several MABS models has been developed and used
interactively with other societies. For instance, research is being done on
the interactions
between societies of robots and groups of people, and simulations models are
developed
with stake holders for environmental issues in a participative way, through
the Internet or
directly on the field. These new approaches lead to new questions on the use
of MABS for
collective decision making, but also on the conceptual and technical aspects
of MABS.

Within this framework of interactions between artificial and human
societies, special
attention will be given to the conceptual and technical aspects (agent
architecture,
interaction protocols, simulation platforms, modelling protocols, time and
space
representation, presentation of simulation results) resulting from these
interactions and
favouring them. Papers describing applications with examples of such
interactions between
MABS and society will be welcommed as well as conceptual and epistemological
thoughts
on the use of MABS as a collective representation.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2002
Notification of acceptance: May 6, 2002
Deadline for final papers: May 20, 2002
Workshop: July 15/16, 2002

All accepted articles will be published in a post-conference volume
edited by Springer-Verlag in LNAI series.

For details and additional information, check:
<http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs02>


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Jaime Simao SICHMAN        University of Sao Paulo
Assistant Professor        Computer Engineering Department
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URL:www.pcs.usp.br/~jaime  voice: +55 11 30915397 fax: +55 11 30915294