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Keiki Takadama
Call for Papers
Seventh International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation
MABS'06
To be held at Future University-Hakodate, Japan
http://www.cas.dis.titech.ac.jp/~conf/MABS06/
Co-located with the
Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2006
http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/
<Presentation>
The Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop is the seventh of a series
than began in 1998. Its scientific focus lies in the confluence of social
sciences and multi-agent systems, with a strong applicational/empirical
vein, and its emphasis is stressed on (i) exploratory agent based simulation
as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social
sciences and (ii) using social theories as an inspiration to new frameworks
and developments in multi-agent systems. The excellent quality level of this
workshop has been recognised since its inception, and so its proceedings
have always been published by Springer-Verlag, in the Lecture Notes series.
The workshop is in part a continuation of the International Workshop series
on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS). More information about MABS can be
found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs/.
<Aims and Scope>
Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is an inter-disciplinary area which
brings together researchers active within the multi-agent systems (MAS)
community and the agent-based social simulation (ABSS) community. The focus
of MAS is on the solution of complex engineering problems related to the
construction, deployment and efficient operation of agent-based systems,
while the focus of ABSS is on simulating and synthesizing social behaviors
in order to understand real social systems (human, animal and even
electronic) via the development and testing of new theories.
As evidenced at previous MABS workshops, the MAS and ABSS communities have
much to learn from each other. For example, the MAS community has developed
agent-based systems that employ sophisticated and elaborated mechanisms
(i.e., rich internal models) to solve complex problems, but these techniques
are also useful for addressing sociological issues of cooperation, trust and
power hierarchies from the social science viewpoint. In constant, the ABSS
community has studied and developed techniques and models for real would
societies such as companies or economy and they are tested and validated
using experimental data, but these models are also useful for real world
applications from the engineering viewpoint. This suggests that the
communication between MAS and ABSS communities has a potential of deriving
methods that overcome their week points each other.
To promote these cross-influence, the MABS workshop focuses on both the
ideas coming from computer science as a new technology to provide insights
into ABSS community and the ideas coming from social sciences as new
metaphors to provide insights into MAS community. For this purpose, the MABS
workshop tackles the issues described in the following section. Finally, the
workshop will provide a forum for social scientists, agent researchers and
developers and simulation researchers to assess the current state of the art
in the modelling and simulation of MABS, identify where existing approaches
can be successfully applied, learn about new approaches and explore future
research challenges.
<Topics>
Topics of interest of the workshop include:
(1) general issues
- Agent and environment modeling
- Standards for simulators including inter-operability
- Self-organization, scalability, robustness issue in MABS
- MABS applications
- Methodologies and techniques that link MAS and ABSS works
(2) MAS issues
- Grid-computing for MABS
- Visualization and analytic tools
- Managing interactions in large-scale systems
- Simulation languages and formalisms
- Complexity
(3) ABSS issues
- Formal and agent-based models of social behavior and social order
- Social structures and norms
- The emergence of cooperation and coordinated action
- Cognitive modeling
- Agent-based experimental economics
<Target Audience>
The workshop will be of interest to researchers in the modelling and
analysis of multi-agent systems, and researchers who are interested in
applying agent-based simulation techniques to real-world problems.
<Important dates>
Submission deadline: January 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2006
Final pre-workshop version deadline: March 10, 2006
Workshop event: May 8 or 9, 2006
<Publication>
All accepted papers will be published in a workshop note and distributed
among participants during the workshop. We are negotiating with Springer the
possibility of a post-publication as a LNAI or LNCS volume, as it was the
case with the all previous editions of this workshop. Preliminary schedule
of the post-proceedings process:
Second reviewing: July 2006
Revised camera-ready papers: September 2006
Publication: December 2006
<Submission Guidelines>
A PDF file containing the paper should be e-mailed to [log in to unmask] by
the 15th of January 2006. The paper must be in Springer LNCS format (see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and no longer than 12 pages.
<Organising Committee>
Luis ANTUNES (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Keiki TAKADAMA (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
<Program Committee>
- Frederic Amblard (Universite Toulouse 1, France)
- Robert Axtell (The Brookings Institution, USA)
- Joao Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Francois Bousquet (CIRAD/IRRI, Thailand)
- Jose Castro Caldas (ISCTE, Portugal)
- Cristiano Castelfranchi (IP/CNR, Italia)
- Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
- Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
- Helder Coelho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Rosaria Conte (IP/CNR Rome, Italy)
- Ernesto Costa (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
- Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Jim Doran (University of Essex, UK)
- Tom Dwyer (UNICAMP, Brasil)
- Alexis Drogoul (IRD, France)
- Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
- Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland, UK)
- David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
- Wander Jager (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- Marco Janssen (Arizona State University, USA)
- Toshiji Kawagoe (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)
- Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
- Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain)
- Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
- Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)
- Mario Paolucci (IP/CNR Rome, Italy)
- Juliette Rouchier (Greqam(CNRS), France)
- David Sallach (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
- Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
- Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
- Liz Sonenberg (University Melbourne, Australia)
- Oswaldo Teran (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
- Takao Terano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
- Stephen Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
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