[agents] MABS 2015: deadline extension (18th of February 2015)

[benoit gaudou]

The MABS 2015 @ AAMAS workshop deadline for contributions has been extended
to the 18th of February 2015.


Call for Papers

*MABS 2015 - The Sixteenth International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based
Simulation*

Website: http://www.irit.fr/mabs2015/

May 4-5, 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey



*Aim and scope*

The meeting of researchers from MAS engineering and the
social/economic/organizational sciences is extensively recognized for its
role in cross-fertilization, and it has undoubtedly been an important
source of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in
the MAS area. The MABS workshop series continues with its goal to bring
together researchers interested in MAS engineering, with researchers
focused on finding efficient solutions to model complex social systems, in
such areas as economics, management, organizational and social sciences in
general. In all these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models, analysis,
experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological principles, all
converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and
predictions, exploration and testing of hypotheses, better designs and
systems.



The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with and continues to
deal with is diverse and extensive and includes:



Simulation methodologies:

-        Standards for MABS

-        Methodologies and simulation languages for MABS

-        Simulation platforms and tools for MABS

-        Visualization and analytic tools

-        Approaches for large-scale simulations

-        Scalability and robustness in MABS

-        Data-driven simulations

-        MABS that link real-world data in real time.

-        Handling Big Data in MABS including sense-making

-        Simulation modelling of multidirectional (bottom-up and top-down)
dynamics in complex social systems

-        Provenance and ontology-driven approaches in building simulations

-        Design and analysis of simulation experiments including
uncertainty analysis

-        Synthetic population generation



Simulation of social and economic behavior:

-        Formal and agent models of social behavior

-        Cognitive modeling and social simulation

-        Game theory and simulation

-        Social structure: social networks and simulating organizations

-        Simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social
order, emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organization,
the micro-macro link)

-        Use of qualitative Evidence to inform behavioral rules



Applications:

-        MABS in environmental modeling

-        Agent-based experimental economics

-        Participative-based simulation

-        MABS and games



These topics are important for both the MAS community doing simulation, and
for economic/social/organizational scientists doing simulation. The
workshop is therefore relevant to the main conference, as simulation is one
of the topics of the latter. On the other hand, as the workshop is already
established as an important event during the conference it will bring more
attendees from the social and economic domains to the main conference.





*MABS Workshop Series*

The workshop is a continuation of the International Workshop series on
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS).



*Important dates*

*February 18, 2015*

*(Extended) Deadline for contributions to workshop.*

March 10, 2015

Acceptance or rejection notification is sent to authors.

March 19, 2015

Deadline for authors sending their revised contribution, according to
reviewers’ remarks.

May 4-5, 2015

MABS’15 workshop takes place.

August-December, 2015

Preparation of Post-Proceedings, with further reviewing, to be published by
Springer LNAI, in the series Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, with the title
“Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XVI, 16th International Workshop, Istanbul,
Turkey, May 2015, Revised Papers”.



*Publication*

All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In
addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we intend
to publish the accepted papers, after a further reviewing process, in
Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI.



*Submission*

All submitted papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNAI layout (
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and in PDF format. The
maximum number of pages is 12. Papers should be submitted via Easychair (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs2015).



*Acceptance standards*

All submissions will go through a peer review process, with two or three
independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to be
1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work, and 3) of
good quality and clarity will be accepted. Following the workshop,
participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo a
second review process before publication in the post-proceedings.





*Workshop organizers*

Benoit Gaudou (Université Toulouse 1, France)

Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)





*Program committee*

Diana Francisca Adamatti, (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Alam Shah Jamal (Habib University, Pakistan)

Frédéric Amblard (IRIT, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France)

Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Joao Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Carole Bernon (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

Melania Borit (University of Tromsø, Norway)

Philippe Caillou (INRIA, Université Paris Sud XI, France)

Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italia)

Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

Paul Davidsson (Malmö University, Sweden)

Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)

Francesca Giardini (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy)

William Griffin, (Arizone State University, USA)

Francisco Grimaldo (Departament d'Informàtica - Universitat de València,
Spain)

Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA International Informatics Inc.)

David Hales (The University of Szeged, Hungary)

Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Marco Janssen (Arizona State University, USA)

Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)

Nicolas Marilleau (UMI UMMISCO IRD, France)

Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France)

Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)

Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain)

Karoly Takacs (Corvinus University of Budapest, HU)

Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Takao Terano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

H. Van Dyke Parunak (Soar Technology, USA)

Natalie Van der Wal (VU University Amsterdam)

Daniel Villatoro (IIIA, Spain)





*MABS Series Steering Committee*

Frédéric Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)

Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy)

Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)

Scott Moss (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis,
USA)

Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)