[agents] EPIA 2013 Track on: Social Simulation and Modelling

[Jorge Louçã]

EPIA 2013
16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Third Thematic Track on: Social Simulation and Modelling

http://www.epia2013.uac.pt/

EPIA 2013, September 9-13, 2013, Angra do Heroismo, Azores, Portugal

*Aims and Scope *


Social Simulation (SS) is an inter-disciplinary area which brings together
researchers active

within the multi-agent systems (MAS) community and the agent-based
modelling (ABM) community. The focus

of MAS is on the solution of complex engineering problems related to the
construction, deployment and ecient

operation of agent-based systems, while the focus of ABM is on simulating
and synthesising social behaviours

in order to understand real social systems (human, animal and even digital)
via the development and testing of

new theories.


As evidenced at other scientic meetings, the MAS and ABM communities have
much to learn from each other.

For example, the MAS community has developed agent-based systems that
employ sophisticated and elaborated

mechanisms (i.e., rich internal models) to solve complex problems, but
these techniques are also useful for

addressing sociological issues of co-operation, trust and power hierarchies
from the social science viewpoint.

In contrast, the ABM community has studied and developed techniques and
models for real world societies

such as companies or economy and they are tested and validated using
experimental data, but these models

are also useful for real world applications from the engineering viewpoint.
In EPIA 2013 Social Simulation and

Modelling thematic track, we bring together both these scientic communities
to foster the derivation of methods

that overcome each other's week points.


*Topics*


* general issues: Agent and social environment modelling; standards for
social simulators including interoperability;

self-organisation, scalability, robustness in SS; policy applications; SS
applications; methodologies

and techniques that link MAS and ABM works; simulation; decision making.


* MAS issues: Grid-computing for SS; visualisation and analytic tools;
managing interactions in large-scale

systems; simulation languages and formalisms; complexity.


* ABM issues: Formal and agent-based models of social behaviour and social
order; social structures and

norms; cognitive modelling and social simulation; the emergence of
co-operation and co-ordinated action;

agent-based experimental economics; empirically-based agent-based modelling.

*Important Dates*

March 15, 2013: Paper Submission Deadline
April 30, 2013: Author Notification/Registration Open
May 31, 2013: Deadline for Final Camera-ready Papers
September 9-13, 2013: EPIA 2013 Conference

*Organising Committee*

Luis ANTUNES, GUESS/Univ. Lisbon
Jaime SICHMAN, Univ. Sao Paulo
Jorge LOUÇÃ, ISCTE-IUL
Maciej LATEK, Dept. Computational Social Science, George Mason Univ.

*Program Committee*

Frederic Amblard (Univ. Toulouse 1, France)
Pedro Andrade (INPE, Brazil)
Tânya Araujo (ISEG, Portugal)
Joao Balsa (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Pedro Campos (FEUP, Portugal)
Amilcar Cardoso (DEIUC, Portugal)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italia)
Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan)
Helder Coelho (Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Nuno David (ISCTE, Portugal)
Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Inst. Technology, Sweden)
Guillaume Deffuant (Cemagref, France)
Julie Dugdale (Lab. d'Informatique Grenoble, France)
Nigel Gilbert (Univ. Surrey, UK)
Nick Gotts (Macaulay Inst., Scotland, UK)
Samer Hassan (Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain)
Rainer Hegselmann (Univ. Bayreuth, Germany)
Wander Jager (Univ. Groningen, Netherlands)
Pedro Magalhaes (ICS, Portugal)
Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)
Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Juan Pavon (Univ. Complutense Madrid Spain)
Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS), France)
Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA, Spain)
David Sallach (Argonne National Lab, Univ. Chicago, USA)
Keith Sawyer (Washington Univ. St. Louis, USA)
Oswaldo Teran (Univ. Los Andes, Venezuela)
Takao Terano (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
Jose Tribolet (IST/UTL, Portugal)
Klaus Troitzsch (Univ. Koblenz, Germany)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm Univ., Sweden)
Nanda Wijermans (Stockholm Univ., Sweden)