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Subject: Trans.: ESSA 2009
From: Olivier Barreteau (olivierb@MIT.EDU)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 14:25:18 CET
Call for Papers for:
ESSA 2009
The 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Conference
14-18 September 2009, Univ. of Surrey, Guilford (just outside London), UK.
Deadline for submissions: 14th April, 2009
http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009
ESSA 2009 will, like its predecessors, attract the best papers from across the
world, describing the newest and most significant social simulation work. These
will cover: human, animal and artificial societies, and apply a wide range of
techniques. Social Simulation seems to be at a "tipping point" between
revolutionary and normal science where it is introducing more rigour into its
methods. Come to participate in the formation of a new science!
The invited speakers are:
* Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College and Editor of
Artificial Life
* Jim Doran, Emeritus Professor of the Univ. of Essex and one of the founders of
Social Simulation
* Tim Kohler, Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State
University and Santa Fe
Submission
Reasonably mature papers on all aspects of social simulation will be carefully
and anonymously considered – however most papers will (1) describe an
individual/agent-based computer simulation (2) exhibit the outcomes of running
the simulation in more than a cursory way and (3) make some comparison of these
with either: evidence from, or other models of, social phenomena (human, animal
or artificial). If you are in doubt as to the relevance of a paper, you may
email the Scientific Chair for his opinion (see below), however the decisions
about relevance will be made by the Programme Committee. See the conference
website for details as to submission procedure.
All the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2009 electronic
proceedings. The best accepted papers will be published in a separate
post-proceedings.
The Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford. The
Sociology Department there is rated as one of the top centres for sociology
research in the UK. It is just outside London in the pretty town of Guilford,
near Heathrow Airport and easily accessible from Gatwick.
Organizing Committee
The conference chair is Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
Other members of the organising committee are:
* Edmund Chattoe, University of Leicester, UK
* Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (Scientific Chair)
* Fred Amblard, University of Toulouse, France
* Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
* Lu Yang, University of Surrey, UK (Admin)
There is a large and varied program committee representing the top social
simulation academics from across the world, covering a large variety of
different views and approaches. For a list of PC members see the website.
Contact
For queries about the organisation of the conference, bookings, travel etc. see
http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009/contactUs.php and for the submission of
papers, the reviewing process or the programme email: essa2009@cfpm.org
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Call for Papers for:
ESSA 2009
The 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Conference
14-18 September 2009, Univ. of Surrey, Guilford (just outside London), UK.
Deadline for papers: 14th April, 2009
http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009
The Conference
Computer simulation is a powerful tool for helping us understand aspects of
society (both observed and in the abstract). However, how best to do this and
under what conditions it is useful are still open questions.
ESSA 2009 will, like its predecessors, attract the best papers from across the
world, describing the newest and most significant social simulation work. The
papers will cover a wide range of social subjects: human, animal and
artificial, and apply a wide range of simulation techniques. The methodology
and, indeed, the very nature of the enterprise will be discussed and debated.
The simulations described will go from the abstract to the specific and
practical. Results and ideas from social simulation are starting to inform real
life decisions (for good or ill) and there will be, no doubt, considerable
discussion about this. A hot issue will be how and when one should compare a
simulation to evidence.
Social Simulation seems to be at a "tipping point" between revolutionary and
normal science where it is trying to introduce more care and rigour into its
methods. Come participate in the formation of a new science!
The invited speakers are:
* Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College and Editor of
Artificial Life
* Jim Doran, Emeritus Professor of the Univ. of Essex and one of the founders of
Social Simulation
* Tim Kohler, Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State
University and Santa Fe
Submission of papers
Reasonably mature papers on all aspects of social simulation will be carefully
and anonymously considered -- however most papers will (1) describe an
individual/agent-based computer simulation (2) exhibit the outcomes of running
the simulation in more than a cursory way and (3) make some comparison of these
with either: evidence from, or other models of, social phenomena (human, animal
or artificial). The ultimate goal of social simulation is to use computer
simulations to increase our understanding of observed social phenomena -- in
some sense papers will be judged on their long-term contribution to this
project.
[Notes: Purely philosophical papers will be accepted if of exceptional
importance but there is a specialist series of workshops for such papers (the
“EPOS†workshops). Papers concerned with the social phenomena of exchange
(i.e. those with an economic subject) are welcome and will be considered
equally to all others but be aware there are different standards of judgement
in social simulation - in particular, modelling assumptions are expected to be
more credible at the micro level; and they are generally individual-based,
focussing on the interaction between actors.]
If you are in doubt as to the relevance of a paper, you may email the Scientific
Chair for his opinion; however the decision as to the relevance will be made by
the reviewers of the paper.
You can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages). These
will be anonymous and reviewed by 2-5 reviewers on the usual criteria of
relevance, soundness, significance, and readability. Full papers will be
presented either during plenary sessions or the parallel sessions, depending on
their evaluation. They will be considered also for the post-proceedings
publication. Short papers will be considered only for parallel sessions. All
the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2009 electronic proceedings.
The Deadline for all submissions is 14th April 2009. See the website for full
details on submission: http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009/submission.php
Student Papers
PhD students who are a principle author of a submitted paper should indicate
this by indicating the appropriate option during the electronic submission
procedure (if they wish to be considered for a bursary or award).
There will be up to 5 bursaries of value £500 available for PhD students who
are a principle author of an accepted paper. To be eligible the student must:
attend the conference; be a paid-up member of ESSA; and not have access to
other sources of funding (in the opinion of the ESSA 2009 organisers).
Separately, the best such "student paper" will be awarded as the "Best Student
Paper -- ESSA 2009" at the conference.
The Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford. The
Sociology Department of the University of Surrey is rated as one of the top
centres for sociology research in the UK. The Centre for Research in Social
Simulation (CRESS) there has been crucial for the development of social
simulation across the world, hosting the seminal workshops in 1992 and 1994 as
well as being home to the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation.
Organizing Committee
The conference chair is Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
Other members of the organising committee are:
* Edmund Chattoe, University of Leicester, UK
* Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
* Fred Amblard, University of Toulouse 1, France
* Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
* Lu Yang, University of Surrey, UK (Admin)
The Program Committee
A large program committee has been chosen, representing the top social
simulation academics from across the world, covering a large variety of
different views and approaches. The scientific chair is Bruce Edmonds of the
Centre for Policy Modelling in Manchester, UK. Other members include (in
alphabetical order):
* Iqbal Adjali, Unilever Corporate Research UK
* Petra Ahrweiler, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
* Shah Alam, University of Michigan, USA
* Frederic Amblard, CNRS IRIT, France
* Giulia Andrighetto ISTC CNR, Italy
* Luis Antunes, GUESS/Univ. Lisboa, Portugal
* Istvan Back, University of Groningen, Hungary
* Joao Balsa, GUESS/Univ. Lisboa, Portugal
* Olivier Barreteau, Cemagref, France
* Mark Birkin, University of Leeds, UK
* Orjan, Bodin, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
* Riccardo Boero, University of Torino, Italy
* Rafael H Bordini, University of Durham, UK
* Seth Bullock, University of Southampton, UK
* Edmund Chattoe-Brown, University of Leicester, UK
* Helder Coelho, FCUL, Portugal
* Nuno David, ISCTE, Portugal
* Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Guillaume Deffuant, Cemagref, France
* Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* Alexis Drogoul, IRD, Vietnam
* Julie Dugdale, IRIT, France
* Andreas Ernst, CESR, Germany
* Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
* Thomas Fent, IDEAS, Austria
* Andreas Flache, ICS University of Groningen The Netherlands
* Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Armando Geller, Carnegie Mellon, UK
* Francesca Giardini, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - CNR,
Italy
* Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
* Laszlo Gulyas, Aitia International Inc., Hungary
* David Hales, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Lynne Hamill, University of Surrey, UK
* Richard Harrison, University of Texas, USA
* Takashi Hashimoto, School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology, Japan
* Rainer Hegselmann, Bayreuth University, Germany
* Charlotte Hemelrijk, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Cesareo Hernandez Iglesias, University of Valladolid, Spain
* Luis Izquierdo, Universidad de Burgos, Spain
* Wander Jager, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
* Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA
* Jean-Daniel Kent, Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris VI France
* Christophe Le Page, CIRAD, Thailand
* Adolfo Lopez-Paredes, INSISOC, Spain
* Ugo Merlone, University of Torino, Italy
* Ruth Meyer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
* Michael Moehring, University of Koblenz, Germany
* Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
* Paul Ormerod, Volterra Consulting, UK
* Javier Pajares, INSISOC, University of Valladolid, Spain
* Mario Paolucci, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
* Domenico Parisi, ISTC CNR, Italy
* Juan Pavon Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain
* Gary Polhill, The Macaulay Institute, UK
* Camille Roth, CNRS, France
* Juliette Rouchier, CNRS-GREQAM, France
* Nicole Saam, University of Muenchen, Germany
* Jordi Sabater Mir, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
* Keith Sawyer, Washington University, US
* Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, CNRS-IRIT, France
* Jaime Sichman, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
* Alex Smajgl, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia
* Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
* Richard Taylor, Stockholm Environment Institute, UK
* Oswaldo Terà n Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
* Pietro Terna, University of Torino, Italy
* Klaus G Troitzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
* Bogdan Werth, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
* Kees Zoethout, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact
For queries about the organisation of the conference, bookings, travel etc. see
http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009/contactUs.php and for the submission of
papers, the reviewing process or the program email: essa2009@cfpm.org
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