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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><h2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal'>The deadline for MABS 2020 has been extended to Feb 16, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2><span style='color:black'>MABS 2020: The 21<sup>st</sup></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'>International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'><a href="https://samarthswarup.github.io/mabs2020"><span style='color:#044A91'>MABS 2020</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'>is part of</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://aamas2020.conference.auckland.ac.nz/"><span style='color:#044A91'>AAMAS 2020</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'> and will take place in Auckland, NZ, May 9 or 10, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The meeting of researchers from Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) engineering and the social/economic/organisational sciences is extensively recognised for its role in cross-fertilisation, 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, organisational 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' id=relevant-topics><span style='color:black'>RELEVANT TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with, and continues to deal with, is quite diverse and extensive. Topics relevant to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Simulation methodologies<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>standards for MABS<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>methodologies and simulation languages for MABS<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>simulation platforms and tools for MABS<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>visualisation and analytic tools<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>approaches for large-scale simulations<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>scalability and robustness in MABS<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>future challenges in MABS<o:p></o:p></li></ul><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Simulation of social, economic and organizational behaviour<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>formal and agent models of social, economic and organizational behaviour<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>cognitive organizations and social simulation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>game theory and simulation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>social structure, social networks and simulating organizations<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social order, emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organisation, the micro-macro link)<o:p></o:p></li></ul><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Applications / Empirical work<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>MABS in environmental organizations<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>MABS and cloud computing<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>agent-based experimental economics<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>participative-based simulation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>MABS and games<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>MABS in governance and policy-making<o:p></o:p></li></ul></ul><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>Moreover, in this edition, we will encourage submissions that address</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>simulation analytics</span></strong><span style='color:black'>. In particular, we want to address new methods for sense-making from the results of large complex multi-agent simulations. These topics are important for the MAS/AI/ML communities and for economic/social/organizational scientists using simulations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' id=target-audience><span style='color:black'>TARGET AUDIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The workshop will provide a forum for social scientists, MAS and AI researchers and developers, and simulation researchers, (1) to assess the current state of the art in the modelling and simulation of social systems and MAS, (2) to identify where existing approaches can be successfully applied, (3) to learn about new approaches and explore future research challenges, and (4) to exchange ideas and knowledge in an inter-disciplinary environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>The workshop will be of interest to researchers engaged in modelling and in analysing multi-agent systems, and those interested in applying agent-based simulation techniques to real-world problems. In addition, it will attract researchers committed to cross-cutting research that is complementary to more orthodox modelling approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' id=important-dates><span style='color:black'>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></h2><ul style='margin-top:0in;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><s>Submission deadline:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>February 5, 2020</span></strong><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></s></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Extended submission deadline: February 16, 2020</span></strong><s><o:p></o:p></s></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Camera-ready submission deadline: April 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'>Workshop date: May 9 or 10, 2020<o:p></o:p></li></ul><h2 style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px' id=instructions-for-authors><span style='color:black'>INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>Papers are limited to 12 pages, including bibliography, in PDF format. Submission is single-blinded: it is up to the authors to put or not their identification and affiliation. Submission must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS and must be electronically submitted before the submission deadline through the workshop conference system, which is available at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs2020"><span style='color:#044A91'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs2020</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>All contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent PC members. The evaluation criteria of contributions will be based on originality, quality, clarity, and its relevance to the workshop’s aims.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>Best regards,<br>Samarth Swarup (University of Virginia),<br>Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>