This is a reminder of the SSCR special issue on social interaction cfp. As we have set up an easychair submission page for the reviewing process, please submit your paper at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socintsi2013. Instructions below.

Special issue on “Social interaction- the bridge between micro and macro”

Guest editors: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) and Flaminio Squazzoni (GECS Research Group, University of Brescia)

This issue will focus on the role of social interaction, in particular how representing and tracing interactions can help our understanding of micro-macro issues in the social sciences. It aims to include the best research in the field of agent-based modelling and computer simulation, which explicitly includes: (i) the explanation of social patterns in terms of consequences and implications of social interaction, (ii) an explicit effort in modelling complex forms of social interaction following behavioural and cognitive foundations of social behaviour, (iii) the presentation of well-justified and puzzling empirical explananda, ideally combined with empirically/experimentally grounded model assumptions, and (iv) why the research is relevant and significant with respect to issues and state-of-the art within contemporary social science (e.g. by making adequate references to theoretical, explanatory advances compared with current social science literature in the field of interest).

The adoption of the best practice in terms of documentation and publicly access of model codes will be strongly encouraged for all accepted papers.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Trust, reputation and endorsement processes
Group formation, maintenance, dissolution
Social emergence and unpredictability
Social influence and social networks
Co-evolution of social behaviour and networks
Cooperation, coordination and social norms (preferably not purely game theoretic approaches)
Social and culture dynamics
The simulation of historical patterns and past societies
Complex organisation behaviour and inter-organisational networks

Deadlines to submit a full paper: 24^th June 2013

Tentative issue publication: Second 2014 issue

File format: Word or PDF, 10 point or above, single spaced

Manuscript length: max 9000 words including appendices, references, captions etc.

Detail on format:

http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/SSCORE/SAGE%20Quick%20Ref%20for%20SSCR.pdf

Papers should be submitted to: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socintsi2013

For any further information or if you wish to discuss an idea for a submission, please contact [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask].

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Flaminio Squazzoni
President of ESSA-European Social Simulation Association <http://www.essa.eu.org/>

Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology
Head of GECS-Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology <http://www.eco.unibs.it/gecs>
JASSS Review Editor <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>

Department of Economics and Management
University of Brescia
Via San Faustino 74/B
25122 Brescia Italy
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Phone: +39 030 2988892
Fax: +39 030 2988893
Home Page: http://www.eco.unibs.it/gecs/squazzoni.html