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The Eighth International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic
and Social Complex Systems (AESCS 2013)
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
(http://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/access/toyosu_e.html)
September 11-13, 2013.
http://www.paaa.asia/aescs2013.html

Regular Conference of PAAA (Pacific-Asian Association for
Agent-based Approach in Social Systems Sciences)
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Co-Sponsored By
 PAAA,
 Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, and
 The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan.

Keynote speakers:
  Prof. Misako Takayasu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and more
(TBD).

1. Aims and Scopes

 Social sciences are now on a new stage. One of the promising
methodologies is agent-based modeling. Pan-Asian Association for
Agent-based Approach in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA) is the
Pan-Asian regional platform to explore the frontiers. PAAA works
closely with its American equivalent, NAACSOS and the European Social
Simulation Association, ESSA. The objective of PAAA is to promote
worldwide activities of the multi-disciplinary community on
multi-agent, computational economics, organizational science, social
dynamics, and complex systems. PAAA lets researchers and practitioners
bring together from diverse fields, such as computer science, system
science, economics, physics, sociology, psychology, and complex theory
in order to understand emergent and collective phenomena in economic,
organization, and social systems. PAAA will also give opportunities to
discuss the effectiveness and limitations of computational models and
methodologies for social sciences. Our most important mission is to
organize Conference of AESCS (Agent-based Approaches in Economic and
Social Complex Systems). AESCS 2013 focuses mainly on applications of
agent-based technologies to social complex systems. Conference
participants will present the latest results of various researches,
and discuss emergent phenomena and modeling issues of social complex
systems, which will provide further understanding on social complex
problems with agent-based technologies.

2. Important Dates

April 11, 2013: Paper submissions deadline. (Extended)
June 11, 2013: Accept/Reject Announcement.
July 31, 2013: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due.
September 11-13, 2013: Workshop.

3. Topics

The topics include, but not limited to:
1) Formal Theories on Agent-based Approaches
  - Theories on rationality, intention, and emotion
  - Social behaviors, social action, and social interaction
  - Mathematical organization theory
2) Computational Economics and Organization Theory
  - Theory
  - Agent-based computational economics and finance
  - Computational organization theory
3) Modeling, Simulation and Validation Techniques
  - Toolkits and methods for agent-based simulation
  - Large scale social simulation
  - Validation and verification of simulation results and simulation systems
4) Gaming Simulation
  - Gaming simulation
  - Participatory simulation
  - Hybridization of agent-based simulation and gaming simulation
5) Collective Intelligence
  - Collective decision and behaviors
  - Emergent intelligence
  - Social intelligence
6) Applications of Agent-based Modeling
  - Organization and industrial design
  - Service sciences
  - Medical and insurance systems
  - Public policies
  - Spatial modeling and pedestrian modeling
  - Innovation diffusion and management
  - Market dynamics and consumer behavior
  - Social networks and their dynamics
  - Prevention of disasters, epidemic diseases and finance collapse
7) Conceptual Model and Methodologies
  - Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach
  - Philosophical issues of agent-based modeling

4. Paper Submission

  Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in length with one column
and single space. Please follow the format of Springer Lecture Notes
series in the following website. The manuscript includes all figures,
tables, graphs, and bibliography:

  Springer Paper Format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)

  Please submit your paper through the following website:

  EasyChair (AESCS2013)
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aescs2013)

  Accepted papers are published in the workshop proceedings.

5. Post-Conference Publication

Selected papers presented in AESCS2013 will be published by Springer as
a series of Agent-Based Social Systems (ISSN: 1861-0803,
http://www.springer.com/series/7188)

6. Organizing committee

Workshop Chair:
Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Organizing Committee Chair:
Yutaka Nakai, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee Chair:
Yuhsuke Koyama, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

7. Contact

aescs2013 [at] paaa.asia

YAMADA Takashi <[log in to unmask]>