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> CFP: Social Simulation and Modelling 
> Thematic track of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2015 )
> Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. 
> http://epia2015.dei.uc.pt/ssm/
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> IMPORTANT DATES
> Deadline for paper submission: March 9, 2015
> Notification of paper acceptance: 27, April, 2015
> Camera-ready papers due: 1, June, 2015
> Conference dates: September 8-11, 2015
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> Best papers will be published in a volume of LNCS/LNAI Proceedings (Springer) indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge
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> INTRODUCTION
> Social Simulation is a recent multi-disciplinary effort that has increasingly established new challenges for the Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems community, by bringing the agent technology to face complex phenomena such as the ones found in social sciences. At the same time, social scientists have been discovering how the computer and especially the advances in artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems can provide a new and exciting tool to tackle the problems of their field, providing a paradigm shift in social sciences. The exchange between researchers in both areas has proven mutually fruitful, as much inspiration in Multi-agent Systems has come from Social Sciences, and these have benefited from more rigourous and operational concepts as well as from principled methodologies with which to face experiments with heterogeneous artificial agents.
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> Social Simulation (SS) brings together the multi-agent systems (MAS) and agent-based modelling (ABM) communities. The focus of MAS is on the solution of complex problems related to the construction, deployment and efficient operation of agent- based systems, while the focus of ABM is on simulating and synthesising social behaviours in order to understand real social systems (human, animal and even digital) via the development and testing of new theories. Both these communities are now well-established and have many common issues, but there are few opportunities for crossover of ideas between the two communities. This track aims at presenting the most recent advances in multi-agent-based exploratory social simulation from a strong computer science and Artificial Intelligence stance. To promote a multi-disciplinary and cross-influential approach, this track will focus both on ideas coming from Artificial Intelligence as a new technology to provide insights into ABM community and the ideas coming from social sciences as new metaphors to provide insights into MAS community.
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> TOPICS OF INTEREST
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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> General issues
> Agent and social environment modelling
> Standards for social simulators including inter-operability
> Self-organisation, scalability, robustness in SS
> Policy applications
> SS applications
> Methodologies and techniques that link MAS and ABM works
> Simulation
> Decision making
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> MAS issues:
> Grid-computing for SS
> Visualisation and analytic tools
> Managing interactions in large-scale systems
> Simulation languages and formalisms
> Complexity
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> ABM issues
> Formal and agent-based models of social behaviour and social order
> Social structures and norms
> Cognitive modelling and social simulation
> The emergence of co-operation and co-ordinated action
> Agent-based experimental economics
> Empirically-based agent-based modelling
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> PAPER SUBMISSION
> Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNAI series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA’2015 submission Website.
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> The best papers will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). All other accepted papers will be published in the local proceedings.
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> IMPORTANT DATES
> Deadline for paper submission: March 9, 2015
> Notification of paper acceptance: 27, April, 2015
> Camera-ready papers due: 1, June, 2015
> Conference dates: September 8-11, 2015
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> TRACK CHAIRS
> Luís Antunes
> Group for Studies in Social Simulation, LabMAg Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
> Email: xarax (at) ciencias.ulisboa.pt
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> Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro
> Federal University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil
> Email: gracalizdimuro (at) furg.br
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> Pedro Campos
> LIAAD/INESC TEC, and Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
> Email: pcampos (at) fep.up.pt
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> Juan Pavon
> Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
> Email: jpavon (at) fdi.ucm.es