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Subject: Fw: Call for Papers: AGENT-BASED MODELING in the SOCIAL SCIENCES
From: francois_bousquet (francois_bousquet@hotmail.com)
Date: ven aoû 03 2001 - 11:28:10 CEST
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> THE FIRST LAKE ARROWHEAD CONFERENCE on COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
> AGENT-BASED MODELING in the SOCIAL SCIENCES
> Thursday, May 9th to Sunday, May 12th, 2002.
>
> The UCLA Conference Center is located at Lake Arrowhead, a Southern
> California facility situated at the 5000 elevation in the Beautiful San
> Bernardino mountains.
> It is about a two-hour drive from the Los Angeles International Airport.
Map
>
> For up-to-the-moment information please: Surf to:
> http://ccss.ucla.edu/lake-arrowhead-2002/ Email: ccss@ucla.edu
>
> An opportunity to advance agent modeling in the social sciences.
>
> We invite social scientists who employ computational ideas and methods in
> their research and teaching to join us for the first annual Lake Arrowhead
> Conference on agent modeling.
>
> The conference will serve as a forum for sharing the most recent
> theoretical applications and methodological advances on agent modeling
> throughout the social sciences (e.g., Anthropology, Communication Studies,
> Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban
> Planning) and among social scientists in professional schools (e.g.,
> Business, Education, International Relations, Public Health, Public
Policy,
> Social Welfare) and in the public and private sectors.
>
> We are planning for a mix of plenary sessions as well as concurrent
> sessions on computational modeling issues, discipline-based research, and
> special topics to be proposed. We invite individual paper submissions and
> proposals for sessions (90 minutes each).
>
> WE INVITE THE FOLLOWING PAPER & SESSION TOPICS
>
> Agent Modeling Methodologies
> Modeling Approaches - Evolutionary Computation, Cellular Automata, Genetic
> Algorithms, Neural Nets, Simulated Annealing
> Model Design Issues - Population Complexity, Agent Complexity, Spatial
> Complexity)
> Robustness and Validity Issues
> Intersections with Mathematics, Human Experiments, Social Epistemology
> Artificial Societies and Artificial Cultures
> Physical and Virtual Robot Societies and Cultures
> Complexity/Chaos Theory
> Emergent Social Structure
> Social Network Dynamics
> Spatial Analysis
> Game Theory
> Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence and Distributed Cognition
> Governance, Centralization, Decentralization
> Agent-Related Systems Dynamics
> Public and Private Sector Applications
> Topics of Your Choice
> We encourage papers at the cutting-edge of multi-agent modeling that are
> relevant to the social science community.
>
> Signed, the Co-Directors of the UCLA Center for Computational Social
Science:
>
> Phil Bonacich
> Nicholas Gessler
> Susanne Lohmann
> Bill McKelvey
> Dwight Read
>
>
> SCHEDULE
>
> Abstracts must be received no later than October 15, 2001.
> Participants will be notified of acceptance no later than November 1,
2001.
> Payments must be received within one month of proposal acceptance and no
> later than December 1, 2001.
> PLEASE REGISTER EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE
>
>
> PAPER PROPOSALS:
> If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email us at
> ccss@ucla.edu with:
>
> your full contact information including:
> name
> affiliation
> email address
> web site URL
> postal mail address
> home and work phone.
> a 300-word abstract
>
> SESSION PROPOSALS:
> If you wish to propose a session (90-120 minutes containing 3-4 individual
> papers), please email us at ccss@ucla.edu with:
>
> full contact information for each participant including:
> name
> affiliation
> email address
> web site URL
> postal mail address
> home and work phone.
> a 300-word abstract for each participant
> an additional 300-word session proposal
>
> Once your proposal is accepted you will be invited to submit your
> registration fee.
> Your name, affiliation, email address, Web site URL, paper title, and
> abstract will be made public and posted on our conference web site.
>
> FEES AND PAYMENT
>
> Checks should be payable to "UC Regents" and sent to:
> Center for Computational Social Science
> 4289 Bunche Hall
> University of California at Los Angeles
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
>
> Credit Card Payments:
> Arrangements are being made.
>
>
> REGISTRATION fees include admittance to all conference activities (except
> meals and accommodations).
>
> free for the media
> $50 for students
> $150 for academic and public sector employees
> $250 for private sector employees
>
> UCLA CONFERENCE CENTER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS fees include luxury suites
> and all meals.
>
> $150 for one day/night
> $300 for two days/nights
> $450 for three days/nights (the entire conference)
> only 100 suites are available
>
> OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS may be reserved and paid individually by
> conference participants in the nearby Lake Arrowhead Village and other
> communities. We offer the following links to assist you in this endeavor.
>
>
> ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE
>
> Participants should arrive for dinner at 6:00pm Thursday evening, May 9th.
> The conference will end Saturday evening. Participants should leave after
> breakfast (8-9am) on Sunday.
> We expect relatively light traffic for the Thursday afternoon and Sunday
> morning drives to and from Los Angeles.
>
> CONTACT INFORMATION
>
> ccss@ucla.edu
>
> Center for Computational Social Science
> 4289 Bunche Hall
> University of California at Los Angeles
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472