1st call for papers and tutorial proposals
ESSA 2007
4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association
September 10-14, 2007
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Toulouse University of Social Sciences
Toulouse, France
http://www.irit.fr/essa2007
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Aims and Scope
For nearly 15 years, social simulation and computational approaches for
understanding social phenomena has reached a rapidly growing audience from
very different disciplines. Some researchers are attracted by new tools,
methods or even paradigms to understand their object of research as is the
case in sociology, economics or psychology. Others have found in simulation
an interesting tool with which to communicate, negotiate or to support
stakeholders' decision-making. This is the case in some political sciences,
in management, and with the participative modelling approach for
resource-management. Other researchers, mainly modellers, are interested by
the richness of social phenomena and the challenges it presents in trying to
capture even a small subset of this complexity with simple models; such is
the case for computer scientists or physicists. Our wish is that ESSA 2007
is the place to bring together for these different but related interests in
an interdisciplinary meeting.
Therefore researchers having an interest in simulation and social systems
could consider ESSA 2007 is the right conference to submit and discuss their
work.
Each submission will be refereed by 2-3 reviewers from the scientific
committee. For submissions, you have the choice of submitting a regular
paper (12 pages maximum in Times 12) to be presented during plenary session
or a short paper (2-3 pages in Times 12) to be presented during the parallel
sessions. A selection of the regular papers will be published in the
post-proceedings.
Topics
The topics include, but are not limited to, the following social simulation
issues:
* Agent-based simulation of social phenomena
* Micro-simulation
* Participatory modelling and simulation
* Statistical techniques for agent-based simulation
* Simulation of social networks dynamics and evolution
* Cultural dynamics
* Agent-based Computational Economics
* Norms and attitude dynamics
* Opinion dynamics
* Validation techniques for ABSS
* Comparison of simulation results with data
* Visualization for the simulation of complex systems
* Methodologies for social simulation
* Epistemological issues in agent-based simulation
* Ethical issues for simulation
* Artificial Societies and Artificial Cultures
* Spatial Analysis
* Agent-Related Systems Dynamics
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Important Dates
April 1st, 2007 Deadline for Full Papers, Short papers and Tutorial proposals
May 1st, 2007 Acceptance notifications
June 1st, 2007 Deadline for submission of final manuscript
June 1st, 2007 Deadline for early registration
Sept. 10-14, 2007 Conference
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Submission Procedures
You can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (3 pages).
Full papers will be presented either during plenary sessions or the parallel
sessions, depending on their evaluation. They will be considered also for
the post-proceedings publication. Short papers will be considered only for
parallel sessions.
Publication
All the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2007 electronic
proceedings. Best accepted papers will be published in post-proceedings.
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Registration Fees
Regular, Early Registration 175 euros
Regular, Late & On Site Registration 200 euros
Student 100 euros
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Information Needed for Proposal of Tutorial in ESSA 2007
The proposal (send to [log in to unmask]) should include the
following information:
* Title of the Tutorial
* Information of Tutor(s): Name, Title, Affiliation
* Content of the Tutorial (about 400 words)
* Length (time) of Tutorial
* Required Facilities (such as video projector and network connection)
* Contact Person: Name, Title, Affiliation, E-mail address, Phone/Fax
Number, Postal Address
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Scientific Committee
Iqbal Adjali, Unilever Corporate Research
Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution, USA
Olivier Barreteau, Cemagref, France
David Batten, CSIRO, Australia
Francois Bousquet, CIRAD, France
Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University, USA
Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Roma, Italy
Vince Darley, EuroBios, UK
Guillaume Deffuant, Cemagref, France
Julie Dugdale, Institut d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees de
Grenoble, France
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK
Andreas Flache, ICS University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Laszlo Gulyas, AITIA, Hungary
David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy
Richard Harrison, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Dirk Helbing, University of Dresden, Germany
Cesareo Hernandez Iglesias, University of Valladolid, Spain
Wander Jager, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA
Juergen Kluever, University of Essen, Germany
Christophe Le Page, CIRAD, France
Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michael Macy, Cornell University, USA
Thomas Malsch, University of Hamburg, Germany
Phillipe Matthieu, University of Lille, France
Ugo Merlone, University of Torino, Italy
Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK
Mario Paolucci, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Roma, Italy
Denis Phan, University of Rennes, France
Gary Polhill, The Macaulay Institute, UK
Matteo Richiardi, The LABORatorio R. Revelli, Turino, Italy
Juliette Rouchier, CNRS-GREQAM, Marseille, France
Nicole Saam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany
Alex Schmid, Savannah Simulation, Switzerland
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jaime Simao Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
Pietro Terna, University of Torino, Italy
Guy Theraulaz, CNRS CRCA, Toulouse, France
Klaus Troitzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Gerard Weisbuch, ENS, Paris, France
Organization Committee
Fred Amblard, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France
Alain Berro, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France
Pierre Mazzega, CNRS OMP, Toulouse, France
Stephane Sanchez, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France
