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CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD AIX EN PROVENCE COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP “COMPLEX BEHAVIOR IN ECONOMICS: MODELING, COMPUTING, AND MASTERING COMPLEXITY” (COMPLEXITY2006) Aix en Provence (Marseilles), France, May 17-21, 2006 sponsored by the Society for Computational Economics Special Interest Group on Economic Dynamics http://www.economic-complexity.net Organizers: Christophe Deissenberg (GREQAM and Université de la Méditerranée) Giulia Iori (City University London) Alan Kirman (GREQAM and EHESS) Themes: The workshop will cover, from an interrelated perspective, three main themes: Theme 1: Aggregated models of economic behavior and complex dynamics Theme 2: Disaggregated models of economic behavior and artificial societies Theme 3: Mastering complex problems in economics, finance, and management. Audience: The addressed topics should be of interest for theoretical and applied economists, researchers in finance, marketing, and insurance, as well as for epistemologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and specialists of numerical methods. The workshop is meant to be a place for wide intra- and interdisciplinary exchange at a high level. Some relevant topics are (non exhaustive list): - Agent-based economies: modeling, analysis, validation, and policy implications - Cycles and chaos in aggregated models - Financial markets and Econophysics - Networks in socio-economic modeling - Social interaction models - Learning in a complex environment - Forecasting in a complex environment - Recognizing and characterizing the emergence of complex behavior - Complex behavior in dynamic games - Market organization - Predicting and avoiding systemic failures - Comparing aggregated and multi-agent models of socio-economic phenomena - Local and global optimization - Control of chaotic systems - Methodological and epistemological implications of complexity Papers presenting practical applications (e.g., in finance, marketing, insurance, electronic trading, traffic, epidemiology, biology, geography, voting, opinion transmission, policy-making, etc.) are to be particularly welcomed. Invited plenary lectures: The following speakers agreed to give invited plenary lectures at COMPLEXITY2006: Doyne Farmer, The Santa Fe Institute Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam Thomas Sargent, New York University Publications: A volume in the prestigious ISETE series (Elsevier), see http://www.econ.tepper.cmu.edu/barnett/ISETE.html. The volumes in this series are refereed according to the same standards than top journals, and have a very wide diffusion. If we receive enough high quality submissions, we will also consider publishing a special issue of a high level international journal. See the website for past AIX COMPLEXITY publications. The preprints will be available on the Web (no printed copies). They will be Repec-indexed. Important dates: Preregistration: asap (see http://www.economic-complexity.net) Abstracts should be received by December 1st, 2005. Acceptation date: January 30, 2006. Additional information: http://www.economic-complexity.net