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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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| Artificial Economics'2005 |
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Symposium in Agent-based Computational Methods
in Finance, Game Theory and their applications
Lille, September 15--16, 2005
http://cisco.univ-lille1.fr/ae2005
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CONTEXT
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Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) deals with the computational
study of economies as complex adaptive systems implying interacting
agents with cognitive skills. This area has provoked, in various
fields of Economics, a great deal of academic interest, in relation
with the Complex System approaches.
One of the first use of agent based models has been popularized by
Axelrod in his theory of evolution of cooperation. In this early work
he used extensively computational simulations and methods in order to
study strategic behaviour in the iterated prisoner's dilemma. This
work is still influencing many researches in various scientific
fields. It has for instance been the foundations of a new approach of
the game theory based on computational ideas.
In the mid eighties, under the impulsion of the Santa-Fe Institute,
and especially Christopher Langton, a new field of research, called
Artificial Life (AL), has emerged. The idea of AL was to mimic real
life under its various aspects to understand the basic principles of
life. This has lead to encompass wider ideas such as complexity,
evolution, auto-organisation and emergence. All concepts induced by
those approaches have influenced social scientists among others.
Following those initial attempts to mix computational approaches and
social sciences, for instance among the pioneering works using ACE in
finance, one can refer to the Artificial Stock Market by Palmer,
Arthur, Holland, LeBaron, and Taylor. This model, based on bounded
rationality and inductive reasoning, is one of the first allowing
correct simulations of real world stock market dynamics. This work has
been done by people coming from various scientific fields (Economics,
Game Theory, Computer Science and Finance).
Recently, another growing field appeared, dealing with the study of
the formation and the dynamics of social networks. To understand the
spread of information as well as the social beliefs one has to
consider the underlying social networks that can have different
effects on those processes. This special topic is another where
physicists, computer scientists and economists join their efforts to
explore the idea that economic activity is embedded in social
structure.
All thoses approaches intensively use computer simulation as well as
artificial intelligence concepts mostly based on multi-agents
systems. In this context, the most used models come from game theory.
Therefore, Agent-based Computational Economics is more and more an
important methodology in many Social-Sciences (the Management
Sciences, Sociology, Economics, Conflicts Resolution, etc). It becomes
now widely used to test theoretical models or to investigate their
properties when analytical solutions are not possible.
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AIMS AND SCOPES
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The main aims of the event are to:
* present computer-science based multi-agent methodologies and tools
with their applications to social-scientists (mainly people from
economics and the management sciences)
* present uses and needs of multi-agent based models and their
constraints, as used by those social scientists, to computer
scientists
* favor the meeting of people and ideas of those two communities in
order to be able to construct a much structured multi-disciplinary
approach.
For its first edition, the Symposium will thus present recent
scientific advances in the fields of ACE but is also widely open to
methodological surveys. Topics include but are not limited to the
following:
* Computational Game Theory (Non-Cooperative, Cooperative,
Evolutionary, Pure coordination Games...)
* Discrete choice models in Economics and the Management Sciences
* Emergence and dynamics of Norms and Conventions
* Financial Market and Organization Models (Stock prices dynamics,
Herding in Financial Markets)
* Epistemology and Agent-based Methodological issues
* Dynamics of social and economic networks
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* March 1st, 2005 : Submission of papers
* April 8th, 2005 : Notification of acceptance
* June 1st, 2005 : Final paper due
* September 15-16, 2005 : AE'2005
The symposium will last two days and will take place in Lille, which
is very well connected to most major european cities. Exchanges and
discussions will have a large space in the final program. It will
offer presentations of papers selected by the program committee as
well as special invited keynote sessions:
* Dr Robert Axtell, from The Brookings Institution and the Santa Fe
Institute, will give a talk temporarily entitled "Very Large Scale
Multi-Agent Systems and Emergent Macroeconomics".
* Pr Cristiano Castelfranchi, from the Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies and the University of Siena, will give a talk
temporarily entitled "The Invisible (Left) Hand".
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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
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Short version of paper presenting aims & scopes, relevant literature
and original works, has to be sent by electronic mail and in acrobat
(.pdf) format to the following email address:
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Short versions of the paper must be 5 pages long. Authors should
respect Springer typesetting guidelines. Further details and authors
guideline are available from the main website at
http://cisco.univ-lille1.fr/ae2005
All accepted papers will be published in a volume of the "Lecture
Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems" by Springer. After the
symposium we plan to publish a special issue of a journal presenting
some selected papers, which may have been modified after remarks and
discussions done during the conference.
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* Bruno BEAUFILS, USTL/CNRS
* Olivier BRANDOUY, USTL/CNRS
* Julien DERVEEUW, USTL/CRNS
* Philippe MATHIEU, USTL/CNRS
* Denis PHAN, Université de Rennes I
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Chair : Pr Philippe MATHIEU
* Frédéric AMBLARD - Université de Toulouse 1, France
* Gérard BALLOT - ERMES, Université de Paris 2, France
* Bruno BEAUFILS - LIFL, USTL, France
* Paul BOURGINE - CREA, École Polytechnique, France
* Olivier BRANDOUY - CLAREE, USTL, France
* Charlotte BRUUN - Aalborg University, Danemark
* José Maria CASTRO CALDAS - ISCTE, DINAMIA, Portugal
* Christophe DEISSENBERG - GREQAM, France
* Jean-Paul DELAHAYE - LIFL, USTL, France
* Jacques FERBER - LIRMM, Université de Montpellier II, France
* Bernard FORGUES - CLAREE, USTL, France
* Wander JAGER - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Marco JANSSEN - CIPEC, Indiana University, USA
* Alan KIRMAN - GREQAM, France
* Philippe LAMARRE - LINA, Université de Nantes, France
* Luigi MARENGO - DSGSS, Universitŕ di Teramo, Italy
* Philippe MATHIEU - LIFL, USTL, France
* Denis PHAN - Université de Rennes I, France
* Juliette ROUCHIER - GREQAM, France
* Elpida TZAFESTAS - National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Nicolaas VRIEND - Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
* Bernard WALLISER - CERAS, ENPC, France
* Murat YILDIZOGLU - IFREDE-E3I, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV,
France
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CONTACT
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Pr Philippe MATHIEU
email : [log in to unmask]
www : http://cisco.univ-lille1.fr/ae2005
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