[agents] FW: CfParticipation: AMPLE workshop (2 May 2011, colocated with AAMAS2011, Taipei, Taiwan)

[Virginia Dignum - TBM]

[Apologies for multiple postings - Please note: AAMAS registration is now open!]



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AMPLE -- Call for Participation

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1st International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling for Policy Engineering

http://ample2011.tudelft.nl/

May 2, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan



AMPLE is colocated with AAMAS2011, Taipei, Taiwan, 2-6 May 2011

http://www.aamas2011.tw/



Please register through the AAMAS-registration procedure, see:

http://www.aamas2011.tw/AttendingAAMAS2011.html

Early registration fees apply until March 31!


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AMPLE description:
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<http://ample2011.tudelft.nl/>Socio-technical systems are complex adaptive entities that require the engagement of social and technical elements in an environment to reach certain goals. One of the major tools for understanding socio-technical systems is agent-based modeling. AMPLE aims at bringing together the topics of  agent and artificial society research on the one hand, with policy making, institutional analysis and the tools being used on the other, in order to discuss mutual effect of models on societies and vice versa.

Workshop Program:
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See also: http://ample2011.tudelft.nl/workshop_programme.html

9:00 - 9:30           Welcome

Session 1: Invited Speech
9:30 - 10:30         Catholijn Jonker, Frank Dignum and Virginia Dignum, Development and Application of Rich Cognitive Models for Policy Making

10:30 - 11:00      Coffee Break

Session 2: Methods
11:00- 11:30       Andrew Wicker and Jon Doyle. Leveraging Multiple Influence Mechanisms for Information Propagation
11:30 -12:00       Hassan Harb, Jordan Srour and Neil Yorke-Smith. Maritime Customs Negotiation: Towards a Case Study in Simulation Modelling for Policy Engineering
12:00 - 12:30      Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka and Avishay Zilka. Towards Qualitative Reasoning for Policy Decision Support in Demonstrations
12:30- 13:00       Vicent Botti, Antonio Garrido, Juan A. Gimeno, Adriana Giret and Pablo Noriega, The Role of {MAS} as a Decision Support Tool in a Water-Rights Market

13:00 - 14:00      Lunch Break

Session 3: Culture
14:00 - 14:30      Francien Dechesne and Virginia Dignum. Understanding compliance differences between legal and social norms: the case of smoking ban
14:30 - 15:00      Alexis Morris, William Ross and Mihaela Ulieru. Modelling Culture in Multi-agent Organizations
15:00 - 15:30      Sonja Pedell, Tim Miller, Leon Sterling, Frank Vetere and Steve Howard. Substantiating agent-based quality goals for understanding socio-technical systems

15:30 - 16:00      Coffee Break

Session 4: Policy Formulation
16:00 - 16:30      Amineh Ghorbani, Virginia Dignum and Gerard Dijkema. An Analysis and Design Framework for Agent-based Social Simulation
16:30 - 17:00      Sonja Pedell and Leon Sterling. The Benefits of Agent-based Motivation Models in Policy Formulation and Implementation
17:00 - 18:00      Discussion: Trends, Challenges, The Future

Committees:
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Workshop Chairs
   Francien Dechesne
   Virginia Dignum
   Amineh Ghorbani
-- Delft University of Technology, NL
   Julian Padget
-- University of Bath, UK

Program Committee

    Frances Brazier, TU Delft, NL
    Rosaria Conte, IRC, Rome, IT
    Nuno David, Univ. Lisbon, PT
    Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, NL
    Bruce Edmonds, Center for Policy Modeling, Manchester, UK
    Andreas Ernst Univ. Kassel, GER
    Armando Geller, George Mason University, USA
    Nigel Gilbert Univ. Surrey, UK
    Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA
    Gertjan Hofstede, Univ. Wageningen, NL
    Jeroen van den Hoven TU Delft, NL
    Catholijn Jonker, TU Delft, NL
    Nicole Ronald, TU Eindhoven, NL
    Jaime Sichman, UPSP, Sao Paolo, BR
    Barry Silverman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
    Liz Sonenberg, University of Melbourne, AUS
    Yao-Hua Tan, TU Delft, NL