[agents] Social Simulation Conference 2016 - Deadline extension: April, 18th!

[Mario Paolucci]

Deadline extension: April, 18th!

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The SOCIAL SIMULATION CONFERENCE, SSC 2016, will be held in Rome,
September 19-23, 2016, as the 6th joint meeting of ESSA, PAAA, and CSSSA.

We cordially invite researchers and practitioners from all over the world
to Rome, “caput mundi”, to share their latest results and foster our
understanding of social complexity problems by means of computational
simulations.

SSC2016 will be the 6th joint meeting (previously known as WCSS) of the
three main scientific societies for Social Simulation, Social Systems
Science and Computational Social Science:

   - ESSA (European Social Simulation Association), representing Europe;
   - PAAA (Pacific-Asian Association for Agent-based Approach in Social
   Systems Sciences), representing Asia and Oceania;
   - CSSSA (Computational Social Science Society of America), representing
   the Americas.

We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners with an
interest in social simulation, from a wide range of disciplines, including
anthropology, archaeology, artificial intelligence, biology, computer
science, economics, environmental sciences, geography, history, political
sciences, psychology and sociology, whether theoretical, experimental,
practical, or technical.

Besides the usual conference contributions of full articles, extended
abstracts and poster presentations, Social Simulation 2016 also allows for
submissions for the ESSA at work track, which offers participants the
opportunity to present their work in progress papers (see ESSA at work
<http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/essawork/17/essawork> for details). In addition,
the First ESSA PhD Colloquium
<http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/sessions/38/first-essa-phd-colloquium> provides
an informal forum for PhD students to discuss ideas.
Important Dates

   - Deadline for submissions: Monday April 4 Monday April 18
   - Notification of acceptance: Monday, June 6 (6/6/2016)!
   - Deadline early registration: Thursday, July 15
   - Start late On-site registration: Monday, September 5
   - Conference starts: Monday, September 19

Guide for Authors

Submissions have to be sent via Easychair
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssc2016>. If you want to submit
for a special session, the ESSA at work track or the PhD Colloquium (details
on the website) you can tag your paper accordingly on the Easychair website
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssc2016>.

The following types of contributions are accepted:

   - Full papers – 10 to 12 pages, detailed presentation of theory,
   methodology and/or simulation results.
   - Extended abstracts – 3 to 4 pages, presenting research in progress
   with enough detail to ensure proper evaluation and discussion.
   - Posters – size A1 (smaller sizes are acceptable), presenting work in
   progress. An abstract (1-2 pages) should be submitted before contributions
   deadline.
   - PhD Student projects – 3 to 4 pages, which present research ideas
   (i.e., a puzzle, a rationale for using social simulation models,
   methodology and expected results), to be discussed during the a PhD
   Colloquium to be held on a dedicated session, involving a group of PhD
   students and senior researchers.

All the submissions must be in the Springer LNAI format
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> .

All the submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent experts.

The best full papers will be selected to be presented in plenary sessions.
Other full papers and all the extended abstracts will be presented in
parallel sessions.

Extended abstracts (or full papers) flagged for ESSA at work must also fill this
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z5ybWz94i9tHIKRejh-2Sj0P0YyEPiA37BuIVvMz3Dk/viewform>.
For more detail please read ESSA at work
<http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/essawork/17/essawork> carefully.
Topics

For a list of relevant topics, please refer to the topics list here
<http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/call-for-papers/12/conference-topics>.
Proceedings and publications

Conference pre-proceedings will be published online. A selection of the
best papers presented at the conference will be included in a special
session that will be published in JASSS (the Journal of Artificial
Societies and Social Simulation <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>).
Awards

PhD students who are principal authors will be considered for the “Best
Student Paper – ESSA 2016” award (350 EUR) and the “Best Student Poster –
ESSA 2016” award (150 EUR). The awards will be announced and bestowed
during the conference closing session.
Organising committee:

General Chair
Mario Paolucci, ISTC-CNR – Italy

Program Co-Chairs
Tim Gulden, Rand Corporation – US, CSSSA President
Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia – Italy, ESSA President
Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology – Japan, PAAA President

For any information, please contact ssc2016 at easychair.org