** Call for Papers - Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour (ABMHuB'23) - A Special Session at ALIFE 2023 in Sapporo, Japan (Hybrid) on July 24-28, 2023 **

About the Session
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A Special Session at ALIFE 2023: The 2023 Conference on Artificial Life in Sapporo (Japan), on July 24-28, 2023.
Submitted paper length limit: 2 pages for extended abstracts, and 8 pages for full papers
Accepted papers will appear in the ALIFE conference proceedings.

Agent-based modelling has a long history of success in many related fields from economics and cooperative behaviours, to social conflict, civil violence and revolution.

This session aims to bring together researchers who are interested in using agent-based modelling to understand human behaviour. It is a combination of computational modelling, social science and behavioural science, which is a growing area of research. Our motivation is to improve our understanding of collective human behaviour and address significant issues that are affecting the human population today, such as climate change, the global pandemic, and misinformation. Alife models offer the capability to create realistic laboratories for which to conduct experiments and progress our understanding in the area. We encourage researchers to use behavioural modelling to assess, challenge or even replace competing theories of human behaviour. Discussions of practical applications, ethical implications, and use cases from industry are also welcome. ABMHuB has been organised as a workshop in the past four ALife conferences: ABMHuB 2022, ABMHuB 2021, ABMHuB 2020 and ABMHuB 2019.

Contributions will be invited in the following areas:
* Agent-based modelling of human behaviour and organisational behaviour
* ALife models of individual behaviour, diversity, and group performance
* ALife models of human communication, trust, conflict, and conflict resolution
* ALife models of collaboration, cooperation, competition
* ALife models of social media and spread of misinformation
* Collective intelligence, teamwork, coalition, distributed problem solving
* Social networks, socio-technical systems
* Epidemiology and spread of diseases
* Social simulation, interactive simulation and emergent behaviour
* Education technology, personalised teaching and training.
* Incentives, reward structures, reinforcement learning
* Agent-based modelling of economic paradigms such as negotiation and bargaining, games, auctions, markets
* Agent-based modelling of location behaviour, spatial patterns, geographical systems, urban evacuation, driver route choices, traffic flows, transport logistics
* Agent-based modelling of human systems such as smart grids, app stores, economies
* ALife models of the emergent effect and propagation of communication in human systems
* Use of agent-based modelling to evaluate or understand existing findings in behavioural science and psychology

Important Dates
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March 3, 2023 - Paper submission deadline (via EasyChair.org)
April 28, 2023 - Notification of acceptance
[TBC] - Camera-ready version
July 24-28, 2023 - Artificial Life in Sapporo (Hybrid)

Paper Submission
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Two forms of submissions will be accepted:
* 8 pages for full papers
* 2 pages for extended abstracts

Papers and abstracts submitted to this special session will be reviewed by a selected group of experts from the ALife community and other key areas specifically chosen for this review process. As you are submitting to a special session, please select the corresponding special session option at the time of submission. Papers submitted to special sessions follow the same format, instructions and deadlines of regular ALife papers. At least one author of every accepted paper will need to register to the conference. The conference will be hybrid and will provide all necessary infrastructure for video presentations and virtual participation. Detailed instructions for submission are available on the conference webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/alife-2023/calls/call-for-papers-extended-abstracts

Organizers
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Dr Soo Ling Lim, University College London, UK
Prof. Peter J. Bentley, University College London, UK

About the ALIFE 2023 Conference
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The special session will be run as part of the international conference ALIFE 2023, this year with a theme this year of "Ghosts in the Machine". The conference will be run in a hybrid fashion, providing the necessary infrastructure for video presentations and virtual participation. Artificial life seeks to unravel the mysteries of life and mind, to naturalise the “ghosts in the machine”. What is life? What is the mind? Are these two concepts related? These ghosts are however elusive, and difficult to identify or even just define at times. To try and learn more about the mind, research in artificial life and other related fields has more recently focused on studies of complexity, emergence, agency, autonomy, or information theory. As a result, this has led to major advancements in robotics, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, among others. The main research programs in these areas however seem to be simply forgetting about the mind, rather than trying to explain it. Further information is available on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/alife-2023

Contact Us
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Special Session Website
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For more information please refer to the special session website http://abmhub.cs.ucl.ac.uk/2023/
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