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1st CALL FOR PAPERS - M A B S 2010

Eleventh International Workshop on
MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'10)

http://www.cs.vu.nl/MABS10
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To be held at The Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2010) Toronto, Canada, May 10-14,
2010.

AIMS AND SCOPE

The meeting of researchers from MAS engineering and the
social/economic/organizational sciences is extensively recognized for
its role in cross-fertilization, and has undoubtedly been an important
source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced
in the MAS area. Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is a vibrant
inter-disciplinary area which brings together researchers within the
agent-based social simulation community (ABSS) and the Multiagent
Systems community (MAS). The focus of ABSS is on simulating and
synthesising social behaviours in order to understand real social
systems via the development and testing of new concepts. The focus of
MAS is on the solution of hard engineering problems related to the
construction, deployment and efficient operation of multiagent systems.
The MABS workshop series continues to pursue its goal to bring together
researchers interested in MAS engineering, with researchers focused on
finding efficient solutions to modelling complex social systems, in such
areas as economics, management, and organizational and social sciences
in general. In all of these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models,
analysis, experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological
principles, all converge into simulation as a way of achieving
explanations and predictions, exploring and testing of hypotheses,
better designs and systems.

The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with, and continues to
deal with, is quite diverse and extensive. Topics relevant to this
workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Simulation methodologies
- standards for MABS
- methodologies and simulation languages for MABS
- simulation platforms and tools for MABS
- visualisation and analytic tools
- approaches for large-scale simulations
- scalability and robustness in MABS
- future challenges in MABS

Simulation of social and economic behaviour
- formal and agent models of social behaviour
- cognitive modelling and social simulation
- game theory and simulation
- social structure: social networks and simulating organisations
- simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social order,
emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organisation, the
micro-macro link)

Applications / Empirical work
- MABS in environmental modelling
- agent-based experimental economics
- participative-based simulation
- MABS and games

All of these topics are important for both the MAS community doing
simulation, and for economic, social, and organisational scientists
doing simulation.

MABS WORKSHOP SERIES

The workshop is a continuation of the International Workshop series on
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS). More information about MABS can
be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: February 2, 2010
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2010
Final manuscript due: March 15, 2010
Workshop: May 10-11, 2010

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In
addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we
intend to publish the accepted papers, after a further reviewing process,
in Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI, with
the title "Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI, 11th International Workshop,
Toronto, Canada, May 2010, Revised Papers". The preliminary schedule for
the post-proceedings process is the following:

Second reviewing: September, 2010
Revised camera-ready papers: October, 2010
Publication: December, 2010

SUBMISSION

We invite paper submission for MABS 2010, taking place in Toronto from
10-11 May 2010. All submitted papers must be formatted according to
Springer's LNAI layout (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
and in PDF format. The maximum number of pages is 12.

Papers should be submitted via Easychair
(https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mabs2010).

Questions should be addressed to Tibor Bosse ([log in to unmask]).

ACCEPTANCE STANDARDS

All submissions will go through a peer review process, with two or three
independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to
be 1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work, and
3) of good quality and clarity will be accepted. Following the workshop,
participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo
a second review process before publication in the post-proceedings.

ORGANISATION

Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Armando Geller (George Mason University, USA)
Catholijn M. Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE

Frédéric Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)
Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy)
Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
Scott Moss (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partly to be confirmed)

Shah Jamal Alam (University of Michigan, USA)
Frédéric Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)
Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Robert Axtell (George Mason University, USA)
Joao Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Francois Bousquet (CIRAD/IRRI, Thailand)
Jean Pierre Briot (Université Paris VI, France)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italia)
Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Paul Cohen (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC/CNR Rome, Italy)
Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Tom Dwyer (UNICAMP, Brasil)
Alexis Drogoul (IRD, France)
Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland, UK)
Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA International Informatics Inc.)
David Hales (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Matt Hare (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Mark Hoogendoorn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Wander Jager (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Marco Janssen (Arizona State University, USA)
Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
Maciek Latek (George Mason University, USA)
Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain)
Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)
Mario Paolucci (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
H. Van Parunak (NewVectors LLC, USA)
Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS), France)
David Sallach (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, USA)
Liz Sonenberg (University Melbourne, Australia)
Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Oswaldo Teran (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
Takao Terano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Max Tsvetovat (George Mason University, USA)
Stephen Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

WORKSHOP WEB PAGE

http://www.cs.vu.nl/MABS10