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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 <http://bruce.edmonds.name>*. *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 <http://mmu.ac.uk>*. *Interpreting the conundrum of
   social mechanisms: Insights from grounded theory*
   - *Amineh Ghorbani <http://tbm.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=31969&amp;L=1>,
   Noortje Schrauwen and Gerard Dijkema*. *Using Ethnographic Information
   to Conceptualize Agent-based Models*
   - *Nicolas Gailliard <http://www.g-eau.net>, Olivier
Barreteau<http://www.g-eau.net>and Richard-Ferroudji
   Audrey <http://www.g-eau.net>*. *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*. U*sing Qualitative Data
   To Explore Knowledge Transfer Scenarios In Agent-Based Models: The Case Of
   Zero-Energy Buildings*
   - *Sukaina Bharwani <http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=104>,
   Richard Taylor <http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=140>, Tahia
   Devisscher <http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=208>, Monica
   Coll Besa <http://www.sei-international.org/staff?staffid=331> and Michael
   Fischer<http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/staff-profiles/profiles/social-anthropology/academic-staff/fischer_michael.html>
   .* *What drives decision-making on livelihood options in the forest
   communities of Cameroon?*
   - *Frank Schiller, Anne Skeldon, Tina
Balke<http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/people/balke_tina/>,
   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 <http://www.armandogeller.org>, Seyed Mussavi
Rizi and* Maciej
   Latek <http://www.latek.org>. *EFMAS: Elicitation Framework for
   Multiagent Systems*
   - *Krzysztof Kulakowski <http://www.ftj.agh.edu.pl/%7Ekulakowski/>, Piotr
   Gronek <http://www.fis.agh.edu.pl/%7Egronek/> and Antoni
Dydejczyk<http://newton.ftj.agh.edu.pl/%7Eantek/>
   *. *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