[agents] Call for Chapter Proposals: Integrating Cultures: Models and Simulations

[Dignum, Virginia]

Dear colleagues,
 
We are preparing an edited volume on "Integrating Cultures: Formal Models and Agent-Based Simulations" to be submitted to Springer. See the call for chapter proposals below
Please consider submitting your work, and forward this announcement to all interested
 
Best regards,
 
Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Jacques Ferber, Tiberiu Stratulat
Editors
 
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Integrating Cultures: Formal Models and Agent-Based Simulations

A book edited by Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Jacques Ferber, Tiberiu Stratulat 

 

 

Proposal Submission Deadline: 30 August 2010

Full Chapter Submission Deadline: 30 November 2010

Expected Publication Date: 2011

 

 

Following the success of the recent workshop on "Integrating Cultures: Models, Simulations and Applications" at the Lorentz Centre in the Netherlands, we are editing a volume on this topic. The proposed project has been submitted to Springer for possible publication in its new book Series on the Philosophy of Sociality, edited by Prof. Raimo Tuomela. Springer has expressed great interest in the volume and has agreed to review the volume for the series.

 

Introduction

Culture can be seen as a way to view the world by giving to people a conceptual apparatus which is related to their environment. Collective norms, values and behaviour influence and arise from interactions of socially and culturally sensitive agents. Computational models of culture are valuable to understand societies and organisations, but there have been very few attempts at analyzing, from a computational point of view, how culture may arise, develop and evolve through time. This volume will discuss and introduce models of culture that enable to represent and reason about different, possibly conflicting, social norms and practices arising from different cultures. Such models furthermore enable to integrate concepts that play a role in culture from the perspective of the different research areas that study culture.

 

 

Target Audience

Researchers in Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Social Simulation, Sociology, Anthropology, Intercultural Communication, Collective Intentionality, Social Ontology, and more generally Philosophy and related theoretical matters related to the foundations of the Social Sciences (and also to an extent the Humanities)

 

 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

-          (Formal) Models of Culture

-          Cognitive Models of Culture: Beliefs, Symbols, Values, Expectations, Norms

-          Cultural Brokerage

-          Artificial Cultures

-          Developing Cultures

-          Organizational culture and (information) systems

-          Agent Based Models of Culture

-          Agent Based Simulation for Culture

-          Architectures for Cultural Serious Games

-          Culture sensitive system design

-          Ethical aspects of simulation systems

 

 

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 30 August 2010 a 1000 to 1500 word chapter proposal abstract clearly explaining the topic and purpose of his or her proposed chapter and how their chapter relates to models of culture. Authors of proposals will be notified at latest by 30 September 2010 about the acceptance or rejection of their proposals. The authors of selected proposals will be asked to submit a complete chapter of 15 to 20 pages, conforming to some chapter organizational guidelines.  All submissions should be submitted electronically following the Springer template (found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)

 

Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 30, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed by an international scientific reviewing committee. Authors will also be requested to serve as reviewers on this committee. 

 

 

Important Dates:

August 30, 2010:                             Proposal Submission Deadline

September 30, 2010:                     Notification of Proposal Acceptance

November 30, 2010:                      Full Chapter Submission

January 31, 2011:                            Notification Result 

March 15, 2011:                               Final Chapter Submission

 

 

Inquiries and submissions to:

Dr. Virginia Dignum

Delft University of Technology

 

E-mail: m.v.dignum at tudelft.nl

 

 
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Dr. Virginia Dignum
Section ICT, Department Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
tel: +31-15-2788064
email: M.V.Dignum at tudelft.nl
URL: http://www.tudelft.nl/mvdignum