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Dear colleagues, with this and the following mails I would like to point you to forthcoming economics and computer science conferences in which some contributions from econophysicists would be higly welcome. Wish you all a happy and insightful New Year, Thomas *************************************************************************** 7th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS (WEHIA) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Strada costiera 11, 34100 Trieste, Italy website: http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ May 30-June 1, 2002 The economy is more and more frequently regarded as a complex system of interacting agents. Recent developments of this approachhave focused on three main issues: i) THE HETEROGENEITY OF THE AGENTS IN THE ECONOMY. The representative agent model, while elegant, versatile, and widely accepted, is unrealistic and it does not capture the variety in economic behavior. ii) THE WAYS IN WHICH AGENTS INTERACT. Powerful results have been derived for market-mediated economic interactions, or for strategic interactions in game-theoretic settings with few agents. Many socio-economic issues call for intermediate approaches where economic interactions are non-market, non-strategic and distributed (in space-time). Actually, the network of socio-economic interaction and its dynamics has become a subjects of interest in its own. iii) THE DYNAMIC PROCESS WHICH GOVERNS THE EVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. The classical model where individual behavior arises as the optimal contingent plan of actions of a deductive rational, perfectly informed utility maximizer agent is more and more frequently replaced by models where agents learn and adapt to their economic environment. This raises the issue of understanding the collective dynamical properties of systems of boundedly (inductively) rational interacting agents. The 7th Workshop on Economics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA) offers a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest results on these issues. Workshop topics include: Interacting Agents: General Considerations Aggregation of heterogeneous agents The Analysis of Cooperation Bounded Rationality Interacting Particle Systems and Economics Percolation Theory and Economics Learning in Economics Evolutionary Game Theory Computational Methods in Economics Market Structure and its Emergence Economic Graphs and Network Analysis Non-linear econometrics Keynote speakers: J.-P. Bouchaud (CEA Saclay and Science & Finance, Paris) J. S. Metcalfe (PREST The University of Manchester) J. A. Scheinkman (Princeton University) H. E. Stanley (Boston University) Y.-C. Zhang (Université de Fribourg CH) CALL FOR PAPERS The Program Committee invites the submission of contributions for oral or poster presentation. Persons interested are encouraged to send a long abstract along with their registration form no later than 31st January 2002. An electronic version of the abstract should also be sent (in PDF, PostScript or MS Word format) to [log in to unmask] Acceptance of a contribution for oral or poster presentation will be notified as soon as possible. The final version of the accepted papers is required by April 30th and it will be put on the web page of the conference. There is no registration fee but participation is limited. All participants will be required to provide for their own expenses; details on accommodation opportunities will be provided. For further information please contact us by email to [log in to unmask] Directors: Mauro Gallegati (Univ. Ancona) Alan Kirman (Marseille) Matteo Marsili (INFM-SISSA) Program Committee: Rob Axtell Carl Chiarella Robin Cowan Richard Day Domenico Delli Gatti Giovanni Dosi Massimo Egidi Daniel Friedman Mauro Gallegati Laura Gardini Alan Kirman Michael Kopel Cars Hommes Thomas Lux Rosario Mantegna Fernando Vega-Redondo Registration Deadline: 31st January 2002 ------- End of forwarded message -------