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Subject: [cormas-annoucement] Call for submissions: MAS session and Method2Method workshop at Bonn HDGC meeting
From: Francois Bousquet (francois.b@chula.ac.th)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2005 - 08:28:36 CET
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : News and discussion about computer simulation in the social sciences
> [mailto:SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] De la part de Dawn Parker
> Envoyé : mardi 1 février 2005 08:42
> À : SIMSOC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Call for submissions: MAS session and Method2Method workshop at
> Bonn HDGC meeting
>
> Please note two planned multi-agent sessions at next fall's HDGEC
> meeting in Bonn. The first focuses on the use of empirical MAS models
> to bridge knowledge gaps among planners, scientists, and resource
> users, and the second compares alternative tools for representing and
> parameterizing agent behavior. Please circulate to interested
> parties, and apologies for cross-postings.
>
> Dawn Parker
>
>
> Invitation for Submission of Abstracts to the Session:
>
> “Modeling and Collaborative Planning within a Multi-Agent Framework –
> Empirical Approaches and Methods”
>
> << Please circulate >>
>
> 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
> Research Community
>
> 9-13 October 2005, University of Bonn, Germany
>
> Session organizers
> Thomas Berger, Marco Huigen, Dawn Parker (moderator)
>
> Summary
> In this session we will present multi-agent modeling approaches to
> bridge the knowledge gaps among planners, scientists and resource
> users. In particular, we will discuss the application of specific
> agent-based methods for data collection, analysis, modeling and
> planning. Topics to be dealt with are
> o how to identify management options and stakeholders’ criteria in
> analyzing them,
> o how to parameterize empirical multi-agent models,
> o how to deliver simulation results to stakeholders and capture their
> feedback
> o how to analyze the institutional context of decision-making and
> monitor the impact of model results on planning and policy
> implementation
>
>
> Description
>
> Multi-agent modeling holds the promise of providing an enhanced
> collaborative framework in which planners, modelers, and resource users
> may learn and interact. The models’ agent behavior is not hidden in
> differential equations, but can be directly observed. Human actors
> should therefore be able to identify with their analogs in the computer
> model. This direct interpretability offers exciting prospects for using
> multi-agent methods in experimental settings—to empirically
> parameterize the models’ agent behavior— and in planning/negotiation
> processes—to provide science-based information for environmental
> management.
>
> In recent years a number of empirical methods and tools has been
> developed for modeling and planning of human-environment interactions.
> Examples are survey sampling methods, participatory planning, and
> model-enhanced learning. Until now these methods have been used in
> isolation; this session will show how to integrate them within a
> multi-agent framework to bridge the knowledge gaps between scientists
> and practitioners, policymakers and resource users.
>
> Deadline for submission
> Please submit your abstracts until March 15, 2005 at
> http://openmeeting.homelinux.org/
>
> Early Announcement of Pre-Open Meeting Workshop:
>
> “Multi-Agent Modeling and Collaborative Planning – Method2Method
> Workshop”
>
> << Please circulate >>
>
> In conjunction with the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of
> Global Environmental Change Research Community
>
> 6-8 October 2005 (to be confirmed), Center for Development, University
> of Bonn, Germany
>
> Workshop organizers
> Thomas Berger, Regina Birner, Franz Gatzweiler, Marco Huigen, Nancy
> McCarthy, Jean-Pierre Muller (not yet confirmed), Dawn Parker
>
> Summary
> The aim of this workshop is to learn more about the methods and tools
> developed by various scientific disciplines for representing agent
> behavior and interactions, critically assess them and come up with ways
> of integrating them for multi-agent modeling and planning. In a case
> study workshop participants will compare methods and tools for setting
> up a collaborative learning framework for planners, scientists, and
> resource users.
>
> Description
> Scientists have developed a number methods and tools for modeling and
> planning human-environment interactions, each guided by their own set
> of disciplinary backgrounds and research paradigms. Examples are
> bio-economic modeling, survey methods based on common sampling frames,
> collective action research, experimental approaches, role-playing games
> and participatory planning. There is much scope for integrating these
> methods in a multi-agent framework and thereby improve modeling and
> planning outcomes.
>
> For a case study in developing countries, participants will receive
> background information and empirical data to present how they would go
> about designing and applying multi-agent models. The idea is not so
> much to do the actual modeling but to discuss how participants would
> approach it, what motivates their choice of methods and tools, what the
> pros and cons of different choices are, and what complementarities
> exist between methods and tools.
>
> It is planned to publish the papers and findings of this workshop in a
> journal special issue on multi-agent methods and tools.
>
> Participants
> This pre-conference workshop will convene practitioners, policy makers,
> scientists and students from the North and the South. The workshop will
> be organized by ZEF, IFPRI and CIRAD (not yet confirmed); a number of
> slots will be made available for participants of the Open Meeting 2005.
>
> Dawn Cassandra Parker
> Assistant Professor
> Departments of Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
> Center for Social Complexity
> George Mason University
> 703-993-4640
> dparker3@gmu.edu
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~dparker3