[agents] CFP: ABSEA 15 @ PAAMS (deadline extension)

[benoit gaudou]

*Title of the workshop*

2nd Workshop on Agent-Based modeling and Simulation of complex systems:
Engineering and Applications (ABSEA)

Website: http://www.paams.net/absea15


*Description of the topic of the workshop *

Among practical applications of agents and multi-agents systems, the use of
the agent paradigm in modeling and simulation of complex systems is now
well established and quite successful in various research fields (such as
social sciences, ecology, finance...). Agent-based simulation is a powerful
tool to study the complexity of real systems in that it allows to model
them at the appropriate scale, to explore them at will and thus to test
theories that would not be possible to investigate in the world.

Important efforts have been made in the last 20 years to provide
non-computer scientists with simple and easy-to-learn tools (NetLogo being
perhaps the best example) that allow domain experts to implement and
experiment their own models. They have greatly contributed to increase the
popularity of agent-based models, but, at the same time, have somewhat
restricted their scope to only handle simple toy models. However, more and
more detailed and complex phenomena are nowadays studied using agent-based
models, leading to the need to run large-scale simulations. These complex
phenomena often involve and combine several processes described at a
specific (spatio-temporal) scale and using its own dedicated paradigm.
Large-scale models are not built from scratch anymore, but require to reuse
and combine existing models.

Scientists, deciders, stakeholders rely on these models to provide insights
or take decisions and thus require more advanced ways to calibrate them,
explore their parameters space, build scenarios, analyse their outcomes, or
extract relevant scenarios.

Agent-based models of complex systems are now becoming complex themselves,
and they cannot be easily designed, managed, run and experimented using
simple methods anymore.

The aim of this workshop is thus to be a place of gathering, discussion and
cross-fertilization between both agent-based modeling and engineering for
multi-agent system communities. It provides an opportunity to exchange
ideas on current and future research advances in modeling, implementation,
simulation and management and analysis of simulation results of complex
systems, to present the latest applications and to generate
interdisciplinary discussions.

*Topics of interest*

Both ongoing innovative researches and reports on practical results are
welcomed. Workshop topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

Simulation and model design
   * Agent-based paradigm for modeling and simulation
   * Multi-scale simulation
   * Time representation in simulation
   * Model reuse
   * Multi-model simulators
   * Learning techniques for simulation model design
   * Participatory modeling and simulation
   * Collaborative modeling and simulation
   * Simulation platforms and languages
   * Domain Specific Languages
   * Engineering of simulation platforms
   * Agent-oriented engineering of agent-based simulators

Simulation and model analysis
   * Data analysis in the context of simulation
   * Simulation analysis and visualization
   * Optimisation techniques for parameter sensibility analysis
   * Verification and validation of models and simulators
   * Parallel and distributed simulations
   * Emergence study

Applications
   * Disaster management
   * Ecology and Environment
   * Epidemiology
   * Finance and Economics
   * Soil sciences
   * Robotics
   * Social sciences
   * Traffic and Transportation
   * ...


*Important dates*

*Submission dates:         26th January 2015  (extended deadline)*
Notification of acceptance:    23rd February 2015
Camera-ready deadline:            9th March 2015
Conference dates:        3rd-5th June 2015


*Publication*

ABSEA proceedings will be published (with other PAAMS wokshops proceddings)
at Springer Verlag in the "Communications in Computer and Information
Science" Series.
Proceedings of the first ABSEA workshop have been published with other
PAAMS workshops in the Volume 430 of the serie and are available here:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07767-3.


*Organizers *
Alexis Drogoul, UMI 209 UMMISCO, IRD, UPMC, MSI-IFI, Hanoi, Vietnam
Benoit Gaudou, UMR 5505 CNRS, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Frédéric Migeon, UMR 5505 CNRS, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Patrick Taillandier, UMR 6266 CNRS, IDEES, University of Rouen, France

*Program committee *
* Carole Adam, University Joseph Fourier, UMR 5217 CNRS, LIG, France;
* Frédéric Amblard, University of Toulouse, UMR 5505 CNRS, IRIT, France;
* Bruno Bonté, IRSTEA, France;
* Jean-Marie Dembelé, UMI 209 IRD, UMMISCO, Gaston Berger University,
Saint-Louis, Senegal;
* Julie Dugdale, University Pierre-Mendes France, UMR 5217 CNRS, LIG,
Grenoble, France;
* Ruben Fuentes Fernandez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain;
* Stéphane Galland, Laboratoire Systèmes et Transport - IRTES-SeT - UTBM,
UPR EA 7274;
* Javier Gil Quijano, Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission,
France;
* Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven, Belgium;
* Franziska Klügl, Orebro University, Sweden;
* Christophe Lang, University of Franche-Comté, UMR 6174 CNRS, FEMTO-ST,
Besançon, France;
* Nicolas Marilleau, UMI 209 IRD, UMMISCO, Bondy, France;
* Gildas Morvan, University of Artois, EA3926 LGI2A, Arras, France;
* Serge Stinckwich, University of Caen, UMI 209 IRD, UMMISCO, Bondy, France;
* Samuel Thiriot, EDF R&D, France;
* Sébastien Picault, University of Lille 1, UMR 8022 CNRS, LIFL, France.