[agents] Final call for papers Social Simulation Conference 2025 (August 25-29, Delft, the Netherlands)

Sat Apr 19 06:40:04 EDT 2025

Dear colleagues,
The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from 25th to 29th August 2025 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social simulation in Europe and elsewhere. This year's special theme is "Social simulation in a socio-technical context: embracing societies' complexities." A theme fitting to an engineering university that, through the faculty Technology, Policy and Management, bridges engineering to the many disciplines that are present in the ESSA community. Being open minded to other perspectives is in Delft University's DNA. In other words: we welcome you wholeheartedly to Delft!
Delft is a picturesque city in the Western part of the Netherlands with lots of canals in the ancient city center, and it is in a wider area worthwhile to discover and explore (Rotterdam, The Hague, the sea...). Delft is well connected, amongst others by train; and we encourage people to travel sustainably. An affordable online option is foreseen that enables participants to follow a portion of the program, but not to present online; this means it will not be a fully hybrid conference.
Submissions
SSC 2025 seeks high-quality submissions addressing original research in the domain of social simulation. All work must be original, i.e. must not have appeared in conference proceedings, books or journals, and must not be under review for other archival conferences, books or journals. All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the proceedings (Springer), unless the author(s) choose(s) otherwise.
SSC 2025 seeks submissions for the following:
Extended Abstracts (3-4 pages; short oral presentations, can be work in progress),
Short Papers (max 10 pages, short/long oral presentation, they should be complete papers with (modelling) results and conclusions),
Long Papers (max. 12 pages; long oral presentations, should be complete papers with (modelling) results and conclusions),
Poster Abstracts (300-500 words, to be presented as a poster in the conference).
SSC25 will have the following special tracks:
*            ABM for social assessment and profiling
*            Agent-based models for healthcare systems research
*            Artificially Intelligent Agents in Social Agent-based Models
*            Blue Sky
*            Cities and Climate Change
*            Complexity in Organization, Management, and Economics
*            Integrating Large-Language Models and Geospatial Foundation Models to Enhance Spatial Reasoning in ABMs
*            Integration of circularity and life cycle assessment tools into social simulation
*            Modeling Transformative Change
*            NISE: Norms and Institutions in the Social Environment
*            Qual2Rule: Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules in agent-based models
*            Sense & Sensibility: Modelling human deliberation and decision-making
*            Simulated fisheries
*            Social Identity Approach Modelling
*            Social Networks in Agent-Based Models
*            Social Simulation and Games
*            Social simulation as a method and methodology
*            Technical aspects of social simulation
Besides the special tracks there is a general track for submissions that do not fit a special track. Please observe that short papers and long papers are full papers, implying for instance the availability of results in case of simulation studies or a full-fletched model in case of conceptual work.

Are you stuck with modelling questions? Cannot decide whether your model needs more complexity, or less? Would your model benefit from a friendly 'pick-apart' by experts? If you are currently working on an agent-based modelling project that would benefit substantially from discussion, consider submitting your work-in-progress to the ESSA at work session at SSC25! ESSA at work is open to all interested modelers at any career stage; having a work-in-progress model is the key requirement. It will take place on Monday (the workshop day). More information on the submission procedure and what to expect from the ESSA at work session will follow in a separate call for participation, stay tuned.
More news will follow soon, such as exciting keynotes, details on social events, the welcome reception and where we'll have our dinner. Also, registration will start soon.

Important dates
The (extended) submission deadline: April 25
Notification of acceptance: May 28

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSA.eu.org/SSC/2025/Conference

Note on timely submission: the new conference platform in use this year is openreview.net. To upload a paper to the conference or act as a reviewer, you need to have an account on the platform. Instructions can be found here. Be aware that new accounts are moderated. If you use an institutional affiliation of an entity recognized by the platform, this will be automatic (after confirming the registration link to your email address). If you are not using a recognized institutional affiliation, the moderating can take up to two weeks to handle your case. This includes using e.g., gmail.com as your email account. See also https://docs.openreview.net/getting-started/frequently-asked-questions/why-does-it-take-two-weeks-to-moderate-my-profile.  In case this makes you run into difficulties, please let us know, through ssc2025 at tudelft.nl, and submit your work in time.

More details are available at the conference website: https://ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl/
In case of any questions, please contact us at ssc2025 at tudelft.nl
Looking forward to seeing you in Delft!
On behalf of the whole organizing team,
Harko Verhagen, PhD
Professor, ESSA president<http://www.essa.eu.org/>
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences <dsv.su.se>
Stockholm University
Postbox 7003, 164 07 Kista, Sweden
Visiting address: Borgarfjordsgatan 12, Kista

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