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Subject: MAPS2 Conference / April 8th-9th, 2010: Teaching of/with Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences
From: David Sheeren (david.sheeren@ensat.fr)
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 09:57:11 CET
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*MAPS2 Conference *
Teaching of/with Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences
*April 8th-9th, 2010 *
Paris, France
http://maps.csregistry.org/home
Aims and topics of the Conference
A two-day conference dedicated to communication and pedagogy of or with
agent-based models in the Social Sciences.
Methods concerning the teaching of agent-based modelling and simulation.
Methods concerning the use of modelling and or models in a more general
teaching purpose (e.g. modelling resource-users interactions to teach
renewable resource management,...).
Methods for the communication of agent-based models (e.g. methods to
describe and communicate around models towards the scientific community,
media or the society).
The use of agent-based models in a communication purpose (e.g. serious
games to sensitize a population to environmental issues).
Organization
The MAPS group (Multi-Agent modelling applied to Spatial Phenomena) is
concerned by the teaching of ABM in social sciences to junior scientists
and PhD students. Since 2008 an innovative training format is tested
which alternates between intensive collective workshops (conferences on
theory and practice of ABM and teamwork) and long period of distance
teamwork (using various web technologies). Each trainees group develops
its own project model.
MAPS2 conference aims at sharing this pedagogic experience and confronts
it to other teaching practices as well as to applications of ABM for
communication purpose.
Partners
RNSC (Complex System French National Network)
S4 (Spatial simulation for the Social Sciences) / European Modelling
Tour,
SIMBAAD
CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Laboratoire PRODIG, UMR 8586.
ESSA (European Social Simulation Association)
Agenda
8st April
10:00-12:00
The MAPS experience
- Trainees groups present their project model 3 presentations
- Trainers present the pedagogic format used and its outputs
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Keynote speaker : Uri Wilensky (Centre for Connected
Learning, USA)
NetLogo: a Multi-Agent platform for education and research
15:00-17:00 Conference speakers Part 1
4 presentations with questions
9nd April
9:00-10:00
Keynote speaker : Volker Grimm (Centre for Environmental Research,
Germany)
Protocols and methods to communicate with and about models
10:00-12:00 Conference speakers Part 2
4 presentations with questions
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Keynote speaker : COMMOD group member: Co-learning and mediation
through models: a companion modelling approach
15:00-17:00 Round table : Modelling and pedagogy in social sciences
Animated by Dawn Parker (University of Waterloo, Canada) a
Proposed keynote speakers
Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany).
Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA).
COMMOD group member.
Proposed round table participants (to be confirmed)
Chairman: Dawn Parker, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michel Etienne, Ecodevelopment Unit, INRA (France)
Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany)
Lena Sanders, Géographie-Cités, CNRS (France)
Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA)
Submitting a conference proposal
*Please send before 15 february 2010 an short paper (4 to 5 pages, times
12) in English *
to arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr <mailto:arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr>.
Eight conferences will be selected.
Final papers will be evaluated by the scientific committee for a
collective publication in Journal of
Artificial Society and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html)
/Scientific Committee (to be confirmed) /
Luis Antunes, Department of Informatics, University of Lisboa (Portugal)
Olivier Barreteau, UMR G-EAU, Cemagref (France)
Edmund Chattoe, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester (UK)
Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, CNRS (France)
Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey (UK)
Tim Kholer, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida (USA)
Matthias Meyer, Institute of Management Control and Accounting, Hamburg
University (Germany)
Gary Polhill, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (UK)
Alex Smajgl, CSIRO (Australia)
Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia (Italy)
Important dates
Short paper submission: 15th February (extended from 31st January)
Acceptance notification: 31st February (initially 15th February)
Final paper due: 31th March
Conference: 8th-9th April 2010
*Contacts*
Event organization
pierre.gautreau@univ-paris1.fr <mailto:pierre.gautreau@univ-paris1.fr>
Conference submission
arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr <mailto:arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr>
Organizers
- Marion Amalric, UMR CITERES, Tours.
- Frédéric Amblard, UMR IRIT, Toulouse.
- Arnaud Banos, UMR Géographie-Cités, Paris.
- Elise Beck, UMR PACTE, Grenoble.
- Nicolas Becu, UMR PRODIG, Paris.
- Sébastien Caillault, UMR LETG, Caen.
- Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, Rouen.
- Pierre Gautreau, PRODIG, Paris.
- Nicolas Marilleau, IRD, Paris.
- Olivier Ninot, UMR PRODIG, Paris.
- David Sheeren, UMR DYNAFOR, Toulouse.
- Ion Tillier, UMR LETG, Nantes.