[agents] CfP: European Social Simulation Association Conference 2009

[Bruce Edmonds]

Call for Papers for:

		ESSA 2009

The 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Conference

14-18 September 2009, Univ. of Surrey, Guilford (just outside London), UK.

Deadline for submissions: 14th April, 2009

http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009

ESSA 2009 will, like its predecessors, attract the best papers from 
across the world, describing the newest and most significant social 
simulation work. These will cover: human, animal and artificial 
societies, and apply a wide range of techniques. Social Simulation seems 
to be at a "tipping point" between revolutionary and normal science 
where it is introducing more rigour into its methods. Come to 
participate in the formation of a new science!

The invited speakers are:

* Mark Bedau, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College and 
Editor of Artificial Life

* Jim Doran, Emeritus Professor of the Univ. of Essex and one of the 
founders of Social Simulation

* Tim Kohler, Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State 
University and Santa Fe

Submission

Reasonably mature papers on all aspects of social simulation will be 
carefully and anonymously considered – however most papers will (1) 
describe an individual/agent-based computer simulation (2) exhibit the 
outcomes of running the simulation in more than a cursory way and (3) 
make some comparison of these with either: evidence from, or other 
models of, social phenomena (human, animal or artificial).  If you are 
in doubt as to the relevance of a paper, you may email the Scientific 
Chair for his opinion (see below), however the decisions about relevance 
will be made by the Programme Committee.  See the conference website for 
details as to submission procedure.

All the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2009 electronic 
proceedings. The best accepted papers will be published in a separate 
post-proceedings.

The Venue

The conference will be held at the University of Surrey, Guildford. The 
Sociology Department there is rated as one of the top centres for 
sociology research in the UK.  It is just outside London in the pretty 
town of Guilford, near Heathrow Airport and easily accessible from Gatwick.

Organizing Committee

The conference chair is Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK

Other members of the organising committee are:

* Edmund Chattoe, University of Leicester, UK
* Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (Scientific Chair)
* Fred Amblard, University of Toulouse, France
* Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
* Lu Yang, University of Surrey, UK (Admin)

There is a large and varied program committee representing the top 
social simulation academics from across the world, covering a large 
variety of different views and approaches.  For a list of PC members see 
the website.

Contact

For queries about the organisation of the conference, bookings, travel 
etc. see http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009/contactUs.php and for 
the submission of papers, the reviewing process or the programme email: 
essa2009 at cfpm.org


Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling