ESSA 2013: Submission is now open.

---CALL FOR PAPERS---

European Social Simulation Association 2013
September 16-20, 2013
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
http://www.essa2013.org

The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of
Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite
researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical
foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate
in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference.

The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social
scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to
cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods
and applications of computational social sciences.

*Scope and Interests*
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Applications of agent-based modeling in social sciences
        - Agent-based computational economics & finance
        - Conflict resolution & cooperation
        - Coupled human-natural systems
        - Diffusion of innovations
        - Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
        - Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
        - Group decisions & collective behaviors
        - Market design, mechanism design & auctions
        - Privacy, safety & security
        - Public policy & regulatory issues
        - Resource management, environmental practices & policy
        - Social emergence & evolution of institutions
        - Social media and volunteered information
        - Social networks and their dynamics
* Tools and methods for development of simulation models
        - Advanced distributed computing
        - Agent ontologies
        - Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
        - Model replication, verification & validation
        - Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
        - Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
* Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analyzing simulation outputs
        - Coupling simulations and optimization methods
        - Data analysis software for simulations
        - Experiment design and data farming for simulations
        - Simulation metamodels
        - Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data

* Important dates *
- Paper submission closes:      1 March 2013
- Notification of acceptance:   15 April 2013
- Final manuscript due:         15 May 2013

* Submission *
- Full paper - in the length of 10 to 12 pages, which should be
comprehensive and consists of detailed presentation of theory,
methodology and simulation results
- Extended abstract - in the length of 3 to 4 pages, which presents
the current topic in progress with enough detail to ensure proper
evaluation
- Poster - should present the current work in progress

* Paper publication *
* Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the conference
proceedings series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (indexed by ISI Proceedings,
DBLP, Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress,
Springerlink).
* Authors of selected full papers or extended abstracts will be
invited to submit their extended version for special issue of Central
European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics,
http://cejeme.org/ (indexed by IndexCopernicus, IC Value in 2011: 4.85
and RePEc).
* Full paper abstracts, extended abstracts and poster summaries will
be presented on conference website.

* Local organizing committee contact: [log in to unmask]
* Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org

On behalf of the organizing committee:
Mateusz Zawisza
Warsaw School of Economics