The second Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS) workshop will be held in
Boston next July as one of the five workshops federated with ICMAS-2000.
The MABS workshop will be a one-day event limited (by the ICMAS
organisers) to 35 participants. The size and concentrated format of the
workshop should offer the opportunity for an unusually focused gathering
at a world-class venue.
The text version of the call for papers is attached. The html, pdf and
PostScript versions are available at
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/mabs2000/cfp.html
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Professor Scott Moss
Director
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Aytoun Building
Manchester M1 3GH
UNITED KINGDOM
telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~scott
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MABS2000
The Second Workshop on Multi Agent Based Simulation
One day in period 7-9 July, 2000
(ICMAS organisers have not said which day)
**Call for Papers**
*Background*
The first MABS workshop, at the last ICMAS, had as its aim "to develop
stronger links
between those working in the social sciences, for whom agent based
simulation has the
potential to be a valuable research tool, and those involved with
multi-agent simulation,
for whom the social sciences can provide useful theories and
exemplars." Since that
workshop, discussions among social scientists and computer scientists in
the multiagent
systems community (for example in AgentLink, the European network of
excellence for
MAS research) have helped to focus the exploration of how
representational social
simulation and associated methodologies can inform the specification of
agents and
support the analysis of emergent properties of large-scale complex
systems.
In addition, there is a growing awareness of the promise and power of
agent based
modelling in the analysis of policy alternatives for such complex social
issues as climate
change where highly complex physical, biological and social systems all
interact.
Natural scientists working in this field have found that conventional
economic models are
not useful. The promise of representational agent based social
simulation here is that the
models are based on observation and historical evidence. Other policy
areas where agent
based simulation has a longer history include urban traffic schemes to
reduce congestion,
private car use and the like as well as safety -related issues such as
evacuation schemes.
Verification and validation methodologies for complex, large-scale
systems, developed
both by computer scientists and social scientists, are deemed
appropriate for the analysis
of the social causes and consequences of climate change and related
phenomena. It
would be surprising if developments in the modelling of complex social
environments,
particularly relating to issues of verification and validation, were not
usefully to inform
the validation and verification of software designs for such complicated
systems as
federated databases and the internet.
The purpose of MABS2000 will be to provide a forum for reporting these
approaches to
the wider agent based simulation and MAS communities, for demonstrating
and
evaluating their power and for identifying promising lines of future
development.
ICMAS has imposed a limit of 35 participants in MABS2000. In
consequence, the
workshop will be small, informal and concentrated on discussion with
relatively short
presentations of previously circulated papers. The focus, the size and
the expected
quality of papers and discussion offer the opportunity for MABS2000 to
be a watershed
event in the development of agent based social simulation.
*Relevant topics*
While MABS2000 should reflect the broad range of agent based social
simulation
research, it is intended to devise a programme that complements the
programmes of the
other ICMAS workshops as well as extending applications of agent
technology in the
areas of simulation and social research. While papers reporting results
using formally
specified agents such as agents represented by BDI, deontic and other
logics are always
welcome, those that implement such agents to simulate social processes
will be of
especial interest.
Topics that will be of particular interest include those that:
* bring both formal and representational approaches to bear on a
single application either by comparing or by integrating the two
approaches
* identify where agent based simulation models and/or results will
usefully inform the specification of, for example, infrastructure
for electronic commerce, personal digital assistants (shopbots or
webbots)
* demonstrate for social or other simulation environments modelling
techniques and methodologies that are generally applicable to the
analysis or design of complex, large-scale systems
* report software developments for agent based simulation
* address issues of socio-economic policy
* address issues of institutional (including organisational) design
and the relationship of such designs to social processes
* develop and demonstrate social analogies such as the market for
agent-based systems to interrogate complex or federated databases
* simulations of robot interaction
* agent based simulations of complex systems such as those for air
traffic control, complex, integrated manufacturing processes,
supply chains, etc.
*Programme Committee (at 30 November 1999)*
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University (chair)
Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon (co-chair)
Paul Davidsson, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby (proceedings editor)
Rob Axtell, The Brookings Institution, Washington
Magnus Boman, Stockholm University
Rosaria Conte, CNR-IP, Rome
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading
Keith Decker, University of Delaware
Jim Doran, University of Essex
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University
Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
Jaime Sichmann, University of Sao Paolo
Klaus Troitzsch, University of Koblenz
*Submission of papers*
Each submission must include the full paper (up to 15 pages), a separate
title page with
the title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, authors (names,
addresses, email
addresses, telephone and fax numbers). You may submit your paper by
Electronic Mail
in PostScript or PDF format or four hard copies by post.
Electronic submissions to Scott Moss at [log in to unmask]
Hard copy submissions to Scott Moss, Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester
Metropolitan University, Manchester M1 3GH, United Kingdom.
Submission timetable
February 15, 2000: Submission of full papers.
March 28, 2000: Notification of acceptances
May 1, 2000: Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted
papers
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