3rd Int'l Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS04) CALL FOR PAPERS (3rd Announcement) AESCS'04 The Third International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems May 27-29, 2004, Kyodai-Kaikan, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan Pacific Asian Association for Agent-based Social Sciences (PAAA) Web Site: http://133.68.63.71/~aescs/index.html AESCS is held in the above date and place in parallel with The 9th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS (WEHIA 04, http://www.nda.ac.jp/cs/AI/wehia04) -------------------------------------------------------------------- What's New - Procedure of Submission (by e-mail) is added. Deadline of submission is Feb. 27, 2004. - Official web site of AESCS'04 is moved to Web Site: http://133.68.63.71/~aescs/index.html. - Information of Registration and Accommodation will be announced later. - Publication information of previous AESCSs is added. - Links to workshop site are added. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Aims and Scope of the Workshop There are many economic, organizational and social problems which require collective information-processing with a large collection of autonomous and heterogeneous agents. The third workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS'04) is to foster the formation of an active multi-disciplinary community on multiagent, computational economics, organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. The aim of AESCS is also to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, economics, physics, sociology, psychology, and complex system theory for understanding emergent and collective phenomena in economic, organizational, and social systems, and to discuss on effectiveness and limitations of computational models and methods in social sciences. Furthermore, AESCS focuses on an importance of cumulative progress of agent-based simulation through a discussion of (1) common tasks, (2) standard computational models, (3) replicating issue, and (4) evaluation and verification criteria for results and papers (e.g. benchmark). The 1st and 2nd AESCS invited Michael Cohen, Kathleen Carley, and Robert Axtel as keynote speakers. In AESCS'04, we are planning to invite distinguished researchers in the field. 2. Topics The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to: [Formal Theories on Agent-based Approaches]: agent-based computational foundations; theories on rationality, intention, emotion, social action, social interaction; heterogeneity and diversity of agents [Computational Economics and Organization Theory]: agent-based economics; market-based computing; artificial markets; agents in financial engineering; econophysics; computational organization theory [Formal Theories of Social Dynamics]: methodologies of modeling social behaviors; chaotic and fractal dynamics; dynamics of populations Modeling, Simulation and Validation Techniques: modeling tool for agent-based simulation; large scale socio-economic simulation; utilization of machine learning and other AI techniques; hybridization of agent-based simulation and gaming simulation [Collective Intelligence]: collective decision and behaviors; emergent intelligence; social intelligence [Applications and Related Areas]: evolutionary economics; complex theory; evolutionary computation; evolutionary games 3. Paper Format Your paper should not exceed 8 pages in length with one column as in a single space. Use A4 paper (29.7cm x 21 cm), 2.5cm margins on the top and sides, 3cm bottom margin. This includes all figures, tables, graphs, and bibliography. Please, do *not* include the page numbers in your camera-ready paper. The title of the paper is centered 2.5cm below the top of the page in 16 point bold font. Right below the title, the name of the authors, their affiliation information and their email addresses should be written. The font size for the authors is 12pt while their affiliation information is in 10pt. The author font is bold but the affiliation is not. The main text for your paper should be 10pt font or larger. 4. Organized Session Proposals of organized sessions are also welcome. Proposal should contain 1) Title of the session, 2) Aims of the session, 3) Organizers' information (Names, Affiliations and E-mail addresses), 4) Corresponding organizer, 5) Titles, Authors, and Abstracts (more than 200 words) of all the papers presented in the session. 5. Procedure of Submission Send a regular paper (in PDF) or a proposal of an organized session (in plain text) to Ms. Yayoi Mizuno, Secretary, Kaneda Laboratory, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya 466-8555,JAPAN Phone: +81 52 735 5511 FAX: +81 52 735 5503 e-mail: [log in to unmask] In submission by e-mail, follow the instruction below - Write "AESCS'04 paper submission" or "AESCS'04 proposal of an organized session" in the "subject" field of e-mail. - In submission of a regular paper, provide the following information in the body of e-mail * Title of the paper * Author(s) * Affiliation(s) * Name of the corresponding author * Address of the corresponding author * E-mail address of the corresponding author * Phone/Fax number of the corresponding author - Attach PDF file of the paper * Less than 2 Mega bytes. * Be careful in readability of bit-image figures in your paper. Sometimes resolution of image gets insufficient in conversion to PDF. * Use only fonts for English. Some Asian Fonts may not be handled correctly at reviewers. - In proposal of an organized session, provide information required above in plain text. 6. Publication Accepted papers are published in the workshop proceedings. We are also planning to publish the selected number of papers presented in AESCS'04 from Springer after the workshop. The following are publication of selected papers presented in previous AESCS workshops: - 1st AESCS: T. Terano, A. Namatame, S. Tsumoto, Y. Ohsawa and T. Washio eds. "New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence," LNAI 2253, Springer (2001), ISBN 3-540-43070-9 - 2nd AESCS: T. Terano, H. Deguchi and K. Takadama eds. "Meeting the Challenge of Social Problems via Agent-Based Simulation", Springer (2003), ISBN 4-431-00830-6 7. Important Dates - February 27, 2004: Submission deadline of regular papers and proposals of organized sessions (by e-mail) - March 27, 2004: Notification of paper/organized session acceptance (by e-mail) - April 27, 2004: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due (by e-mail/Web) May 27, 2004: Workshop 8. Registration and Participants The registration fees are 10,000 Japanese Yen which will cover conference materials including the proceedings. AESCS is held in parallel with The 9th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS (WEHIA 04). Participants to AESCS'04 can attend to all the sessions of these workshops. Way of registration and reservation of accommodation is under preparation. They will be announced later. 9. PAAA To held AESCS continuously and to encourage research in this field, Pacific Asian Association for Agent-based Social Sciences (PAAA) is founded. For further information, visit web site of PAAA (http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/). 10. Workshop Site Kyodai-Kaikan( Conference Hall run by the alumni association of Kyoto University) Kyoto University, JAPAN http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html 11. Organizing and Program Committees Chair:Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Organizers:Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan (kita @ media.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Toshiyuki Kaneda, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, Kiyoshi Arai, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Program Committee(in alphabetical order): Robert Axtell, Brookings institution, U.S.A. Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University, U.S.A. Hiroshi Deguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Yoshi Fujiwara, ATR Human Information Science Labs., Japan Toshiya Kaihara, Kobe University, Japan Thomas Lux, Kiel University, Germany Hideyuki Mizuta, IBM JAPAN, Japan Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan Akira Namatame, National Defence Academy, Japan Keiji Suzuki, Future University-Hakodate, Japan Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Shingo Takahashi, Waseda University, Japan David W. K. Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University and St. Petersburg State University, China Makoto Yokoo, NTT CS Lab., Japan _______________________________________________________________________ Professor Nigel Gilbert, Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/> Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS) Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Tel:+44 1483 689173 [log in to unmask] <http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>