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CALL FOR PAPERS for SS@IJCAI 2009
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First IJCAI Workshop on Social Simulation
July 12, 2009
http://ss-ijcai2009.di.fc.ul.pt
to be held at the Pasadena Conference Center (Pasadena CA, USA)
during the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence IJCAI-09 (http://ijcai-09.org/)
Aims and Scope
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Agent-based Social Simulation is a recent multi-disciplinary effort
that has increasingly established new challenges for the Artificial
Intelligence and Multiagent Systems community, by bringing the agent
technology to face complex phenomena such as the ones found in social
sciences. At the same time, social scientists have been discovering
how the computer and especially the advances in artificial
intelligence and multi-agent systems can provide a new and exciting
tool to tackle the problems of their field, providing a paradigm shift
in social sciences. The exchange between researchers in both areas has
proven mutually fruitful, as much inspiration in MAS has come from
Social Sciences, and these have benefited from more rigorous and
operational concepts as well as from principled methodologies with
which to face experiments with heterogeneous artificial agents.
Social Simulation brings together the multi-agent simulation (MAS) and
agent-based social simulation (ABSS) communities. The focus of MAS is
on the solution of complex 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. Both
these communities are now well-established and have many common
issues, but there are few opportunities for crossover of ideas between
the two communities.
General Topics
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This workshop aims at presenting the most recent advances in
multi-agent-based exploratory social simulation from a strong computer
science and Artificial Intelligence stance. To promote a
multi-disciplinary and cross-influential approach, this workshop will
focus both on ideas coming from Artificial Intelligence 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.
The main themes of the workshop will include:
(1) general issues (Agent and environment modeling; Standards for
simulators including inter-operability; Self-organization, scalability,
robustness in MABS; MABS applications; and 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; and Complexity); and
(3) ABSS issues (Formal and agent-based models of social behavior and
social order; Social structures and norms; Cognitive modeling and
social
simulation; The emergence of cooperation and coordinated action; and
Agent-based experimental economics).
Target Audience
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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 modeling and simulation of social systems,
identify where existing approaches can be successfully applied, learn
about new approaches and explore future research challenges.
Important Dates
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March 6, 2009: Submission of contributions
April 17, 2009: Paper acceptance notification
May 8, 2009: Final camera ready copy to workshop organizer
July 12, 2009: IJCAI-09 Social Simulation Workshop
Submission of papers
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Papers should be written in English (US standard) in Springer LNCS
format, up to a maximum of 12 pages (US Letter), and sent my e-mail to
[log in to unmask] by the submission deadline date.
Review process
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All submissions will go through a peer review process, with three
independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to
be 1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work,
and 3) of good quality and clarity would be accepted. Should there be
post-proceedings, all workshop participants will be required to revise
their papers which will undergo a second review process before
publication.
Publication
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Accepted papers will be published and distributed to participants at
the workshop. The best papers will be selected for post-publication,
as a special issue of an international scientific journal. The
tentative schedule for the second revision process is:
August 2009: Submission for second review process
September 2009: Feedback and submission of revised papers
December 2009: Publication
Organizing Committee
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Luis ANTUNES (GUESS/LabMAg/Univ. Lisbon, Portugal) xarax AT di.fc.ul.pt
Samer HASSAN (Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain) samer AT
fdi.ucm.es
Nigel GILBERT (Dept. Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) n.gilbert AT
surrey.ac.uk
Program committee
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# Frederic Amblard (University Toulouse 1, France)
# Robert Axtell (The Brookings Institution, USA)
# Joao Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
# Francois Bousquet (CIRAD, France)
# Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
# Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
# Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
# Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
# Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
# Rosaria Conte (ISTC/CNR Rome, Italy)
# Nuno David (ISCTE, Portugal)
# Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
# Guillaume Deffuant (CEMAGREF, France)
# Alexis Drogoul (IRD, France)
# Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
# Andreas Flache (ICS University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
# Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, UK)
# Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA International Informatics, Hungary)
# David Hales (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
# Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
# Cesareo Hernandez (University of Valladolid, Spain)
# Wander Jager (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
# Marco Janssen (Indiana University, USA)
# Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
# Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
# Scott Moss (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
# Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)
# Pablo Noriega (IIIA, Spain)
# Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
# Michael North (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
# Mario Paolucci (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
# Simon Parsons (City University of New York, USA)
# Juan Pavón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
# Camille Roth (University of Toulouse, France)
# 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)
# Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, USA)
# Alex Smajgl (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia)
# Liz Sonenberg (University Melbourne, Australia)
# Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
# Keiki Takadama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
# Oswaldo Teran (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
# Takao Terano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
# Pietro Terna (University of Torino, Italy)
# Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
# Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
# Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
# Gerard Weisbuch (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
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