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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: First conference of the European Social Simulation Association, hosting the SIMSOC VI workshop
From: Janssen, Marco A. (maajanss@indiana.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 16:27:42 CET
First conference of the European Social Simulation Association, hosting
the SIMSOC VI workshop, Thursday September 18 to Sunday September 21
2003, Groningen The Netherlands
Site address: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/simsocvi/
Social simulation is contributing increasingly to the understanding of
social dynamics, organizational processes and provides a test-bed for
managing systems involving human behavior. The ESSA conference is aimed
at bringing together researchers and practitioners to present their
latest results and to demonstrate new applications and technologies. The
conference will provide a platform to share and discuss the newest
developments within the field with colleagues originating from different
disciplines.
Originally this meeting was planned to be solely a SIMSOC VI workshop,
but due to the recent establishment of the ESSA the meeting has been
transformed into a conference with a broader scope. Nevertheless, we
will keep certain aspects of the original SIMSOC format, which holds
that each accepted contribution will be allotted a 45-minute slot for
presentation and 15 minutes for discussion. Next to plenary sessions
there will be a number of parallel sessions devoted to specific topics.
Since the focus is on in depth discussion of the papers, only a limited
number of contributions can be accepted. In addition, a number of papers
will be accepted for a poster presentation.
One of the parallel sessions will be exclusively focused at the scope we
defined for the SIMSOC VI workshop, the theoretical and empirical
foundations of agents' architectures, which is described in more detail
at http://www.bdk.rug.nl/simsocVI/simsoc.htm. The other parallel
sessions cover other topics of social simulation as covered by the ESSA
(http://essa.cfpm.org/).
If you wish to present at the ESSA conference, you should submit an
extended abstract of about 2000 -3000 words before MAY 1, 2003. If you
have a special interest of presenting your work in the SIMSOC session
please indicate that on top of the abstract. This abstract should be
emailed in plain text to maajanss@indiana.edu.
More information on the ESSA conference, the SIMSOC and the city of
Groningen can be found at: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/simsocvi/