[agents] Final CfP: MABS at AAMAS 2009: the 10th Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation

[Gennaro Di Tosto]

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                  10th International Workshop on
                   Multi-Agent-Based Simulation
                             (MABS 2009)

               Budapest, Hungary, May 11-12, 2009

                http://labss.istc.cnr.it/mabs09

 MABS 2009 is the tenth edition of the International Workshop on Multi-Agent
 Based Simulation, which will be hosted at AAMAS 2009, the eighth
 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, that is
 going to take place in Budapest, Hungary, on May 10-15, 2009.

 Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is an inter-disciplinary area born at the
 intersection between the multi-agent systems (MAS) community and the
 agent-based social simulation (ABSS) community. The workshop aims to bring
 together scholars interested in agent-based systems and computational models
 of real-world societies, at different levels of organization, in order to
 create a forum for dialogue and research across disciplines.

 THE MABS WORKSHOP SERIES

 From 1998 to 2000, the workshop was organized every two years, co-located
 with ICMAS. Since 2002, MABS has become an annual event, always associated
 with the international conference on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems
 (AAMAS).

 You can find information about all the past editions at
 http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs/.

 TOPICS

 Workshop topics include:

 1. Simulation Methodologies

  * Standards for MABS.
  * Methodologies and simulation languages.
  * Simulation platform and tools for MABS.
  * Visualization and analytic tools.
  * Approaches for large-scale simulations.
  * Scalability and robustness in MABS.

 2. Simulation of social and economic behaviours

  * Formal and agent models of social behaviour.
  * Cognitive modelling and social simulation.
  * Social networks and simulated organizations.
  * Social complexity: norms and institutions, emergence of cooperation and
    coordinated actions, self-organization, micro-macro link.

 3. Applications

  * MABS in environmental modelling.
  * Agent-based experimental economics.
  * Participative simulations.
  * MABS and games.

 4. Data driven simulations

 Without limiting the range of traditional topics addressed in this workshop,
 in the upcoming edition we would like to challenge the community to submit
 the latest results in one additional area: Data driven simulations, which
 will focus on the cross-methodological research that aims to relate models to
 empirical data in several fields: including biology, sociology, political
 science, economics, and up to studies done with new media and communication
 technologies.

 This special topic can be broken down into (at least) the following issues:

  * How to generate a simulation of a system, given a body of data describing
    a domain; this uses data as input to the simulation.
  * How to validate a simulation by comparing it with real-world data; this
    compares the output of the simulation with the data.
  * The use of a simulation as part of a model-based control system; this
    puts the simulation in a loop, continuously consuming data from the world
    through sensors and changing the world through actuators.


 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 Submissions will be managed online:
 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs2009

 All submissions should be no longer than 12 pages, in PDF format. Authors are
 required to use Springer LNCS format for proceedings.

 Papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings. Following the workshop,
 participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo a
 second review process before publication in the post-proceedings, as part of
 the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Series for Springer-Verlag.

 IMPORTANT DATES

  * Paper submission: January 30, 2009
  * Notification: February 27, 2009
  * Camera-ready version of accepted papers: March 6, 2009
  * Workshop: May 11/12, 2009

 REVIEW PROCESS

 Submission reviews are based on full papers. All submissions would 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 would be
 accepted.

 ORGANIZATION

 H. Van Dyke Parunak (NewVectors division of TechTeam Government Solutions,
 Inc.Lisbon University Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

 Gennaro Di Tosto (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, National
 Research Council, Italy)

 THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE

 Frédéric Amblard (University of Toulouse, France)
 Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
 Keiki Takadama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
 Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
 Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
 Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
 Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
 Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy)
 Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Diana Adamatti (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
 Frederic Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)
 Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
 Robert Axtell (George Mason University, USA)
 Joao Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
 Riccardo Boero (University of Turin, Italy)
 Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
 Helder Coelho (Lisbon University, Portugal)
 Nuno David (Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE, Portugal)
 Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
 Alexis Drogoul (IRD, MSI research team, Vietnam)
 Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
 Nick Gotts (The Macaulay Institute, UK)
 David Hales (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
 Cesáreo Hernández Iglesias (INSISOC, Valladolid, Spain)
 Marco Janssen (Arizona State University, USA)
 Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
 Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
 Adolfo López Paredes (INSISOC, Valladolid, Spain)
 Maria Marietto (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)
 Ruth Meyer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
 Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
 Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
 Mario Paolucci (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
 Juan Pavon Mestras(Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
 Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS, France)
 David Sallach (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
 Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
 Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
 Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, USA)
 Oswaldo Teran (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
 Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
 Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

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