From jamialam at gmail.com Sat Dec 1 17:45:50 2012 From: jamialam at gmail.com (Shah Jamal Alam) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 22:45:50 +0000 Subject: [Swarm-Modelling] Call for Papers MABS 2013 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and students. ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MABS?13 - The Fourteenth International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Multi-Agent Simulation In conjunction with AAMAS 2013, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 6th-10th May 2013 Submission deadline: February 3, 2013 For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/mabsworkshop/ Aims and scope. The meeting of researchers from MAS engineering and the social/economic/organizational sciences is extensively recognized for its role in cross-fertilization, and has undoubtedly been an important source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in the MAS area. Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is a vibrant inter-disciplinary area which brings together researchers within the agent-based social simulation community (ABSS) and the Multiagent Systems community (MAS). The focus of ABSS is on simulating and organization social behaviours in order to understand real social systems via the development and testing of new concepts. The focus of MAS is on the solution of hard engineering problems related to the construction, deployment and efficient operation of multiagent systems. The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with, and continues to deal with, is quite diverse and extensive. The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with and continues to deal with is diverse and extensive and includes: Simulation methodologies: - standards for MABS - methodologies and simulation languages for MABS - simulation platforms and tools for MABS - visualization and analytic tools - approaches for large-scale simulations - scalability and robustness in MABS Simulation of social and economic behavior: - formal and agent models of social behavior - cognitive modeling and social simulation - game theory and simulation - social structure: social networks and simulating organizations - simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social order, emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organization, the micro-macro link) Applications: - MABS in environmental modeling - agent-based experimental economics - participative-based simulation - MABS and games In addition to the above topics, we are also interested in submissions that address issues that have attracted MABS in the recent years. These include, - Data driven simulations - MABS that link real-world data in real time. - simulation modelling of multidirectional dynamics in complex social systems - Provenance and ontology-driven approaches in building simulations - Use of qualitative Evidence to inform behavioral rules - Design and analysis of simulation experiments including uncertainty analysis - Handling Big Data in MABS including sense-making MABS WORKSHOP SERIES The workshop is a continuation of the International Workshop series on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS). Further details of the previous workshops can be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs/. IMPORTANT DATES February 3, 2013 - Deadline for paper submission. March 1, 2013 - Acceptance or rejection notification is sent to authors. March 10, 2013 - Deadline for authors sending their revised contribution, according to reviewers? remarks. May 6-57, 2013 - MABS 2013 workshop takes place. PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we intend to publish the accepted papers, after a further reviewing process, in Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI. SUBMISSION All submitted papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNAI layout (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and in PDF format. The maximum number of pages is 12. Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs13) ACCEPTANCE STANDARDS All submissions will go through a peer review process, with two or three independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to be 1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work, and 3) of good quality and clarity will be accepted. Following the workshop, participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo a second review process before publication in the post-proceedings. ORGANISATION H. Van Dyke Parunak (Jacobs Technology, USA) Shah Jamal Alam (University of Edinburgh, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Coming soon! THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE Fr?d?ric Amblard (Universit? Toulouse 1, France) Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy) Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Scott Moss (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Jaime Sim?o Sichman (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil) Keiki Takadama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Contact: For the workshop related queries, contact mabs13 at easychair.org For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/site/mabsworkshop/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: