The track will be a lively one, and I really hope that this enables a meeting of minds.  The accepted papers to be orally presented at ESSA 2013, in no particular order:

• Martin Neumann. Grounded Simulation
• Tilman Schenk. Generating an agent based model from interviews and observations: procedures and challenges
• Javier Alvarez-Galvez. Agent-Based Decision Support System for Studying Health System Efficiency
• Elizabeth Carabine. Narratives of a drought: exploring resilience in Kenya’s drylands
• Emma Norling. An Approach to Capturing Cognitive Processes
• Bruce Edmonds. Towards a Context- and Scope-Sensitive Analysis for Specifying Agent Behaviour
• Ozge Dilaver Kalkan. A Grounded Simulation of Early Adoption Advantages During Diffusion of Innovations
• Magnus Josefsson. Interpreting the conundrum of social mechanisms: Insights from grounded theory
• Amineh Ghorbani, Noortje Schrauwen and Gerard Dijkema. Using Ethnographic Information to Conceptualize Agent-based Models
• Nicolas Gailliard, Olivier Barreteau and Richard-Ferroudji Audrey. Participatory policy making in practice: simulating boundary work in water governance
• Pablo Lucas. An Adaptation of the Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling Methodology for Developing Evidence-Driven Agent-Based Models
• Jesus Rosales-Carreon and Cesar Garcia-Diaz. Using Qualitative Data To Explore Knowledge Transfer Scenarios In Agent-Based Models: The Case Of Zero-Energy Buildings
• Sukaina Bharwani, Richard Taylor, Tahia Devisscher, Monica Coll Besa and Michael Fischer. What drives decision-making on livelihood options in the forest communities of Cameroon?
• Frank Schiller, Anne Skeldon, Tina Balke, Michelle Grant, Alexandra Penn, Lauren Basson, Paul Jensen, Nigel Gilbert, Ozge Dilaver Kalkan and Amy Woodward. Defining relevance and finding rules: an agent-based model of biomass use in the Humber area
• Serge Bobo Kadiri and Christophe Le Page. Raising the awareness of local populations about the sustainability of bushmeat hunting through the incremental introduction of an agent-based model. A case study in the region of Korup National Park (Cameroon)
• Armando Geller, Seyed Mussavi Rizi and Maciej Latek. EFMAS: Elicitation Framework for Multiagent Systems
• Krzysztof Kulakowski, Piotr Gronek and Antoni Dydejczyk. Discrete Chaos In Everyday Life

Do come along and participate!  The ESSA 2013 website is at: http://essa2013.org

And dont forget the special issue CfP on the same topic, deadline 15th October (http://cfpm.org/qual2rule/special-issue-of-jasss)

Thanks.

Regards.

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Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School,
All Saints Campus, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6BH, UK.
Tel. +161 247 6479  Fax. +161 247 6802
http://bruce.edmonds.name