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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***Apologies for cross-posting.***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The 2022 edition of the Social Simulation Festival will take place during the first four Tuesdays in May. The registration link and the website will be ready soon. In the meanwhile, you can check the schedule below the signature.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Melania, Harko, and Nanda.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">_______<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Melania Borit, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate professor,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Leader Research Group
<a href="https://uit.no/research/craft">CRAFT</a> – Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Norwegian College of Fishery Science,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">UiT The Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsø),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tromsø, Norway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E-mail:
</span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:melania.borit@uit.no"><span lang="EN-US">melania.borit@uit.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web:
</span><span lang="NO-BOK" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/ansatte/person?p_document_id=139029&p_dimension_id=88166"><span lang="EN-US">uit.no/melania.borit</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>3<sup>rd</sup> of May<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(09:30 CET) 7th Seminar on using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules in agent-based modelling (Chairs: Melania Borit, Bruce Edmonds)
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<p class="MsoNormal">(11:15 CET) The future of social simulation from early-stage researchers' perspective (Chairs: Timo Szczepanska, Diego Dametto, Daniela Cialfi)
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<p class="MsoNormal">(13:30 CET) Games and agent-based models (Chairs: Melania Borit, Timo Szczepanska, Harko Verhagen)
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<p class="MsoNormal">(15:15 CET) Inspiration: H. Van Dyke Parunak, ABC research, US<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>10<sup>th</sup> of May<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(09:30 CET) [TBD] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(11:15 CET) Societies as cognitive symphonies – Building better simulations based on universal cognitive modules (Chairs: Loïs Vanhée, Nanda Wijermans)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(13:30 CET) Smalltalk about big things: Validation (Panel discussion with Patrycja Antosz, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Frank Dignum, Juliette Rouchier)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>17<sup>th</sup> of May<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(09:30 CET) Experimental ABM, let’s talk about it (Chairs: Dino Carpentras, Daniela Cialfi)
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<p class="MsoNormal">(11:15 CET) Interactive Team Cognition: Analysis of successful team decision processes (Chairs: Denise Lopez, Iris Lorscheid)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(13:30 CET) Challenges of applying social simulation for policy making (Chairs: Fabian Lorig, Paul Davidsson, Loïs Vanhée, Frank Dignum)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(15:15 CET) Inspiration: Jennifer Badham, Department of Sociology, Durham University, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>24<sup>th</sup> of May <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(09:30 CET) International Law and Agent-based Modelling (Chairs: Veronika Fikfak, Katharina Luckne)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(11:15 CET) Institutional Modelling (Chairs: Amineh Ghorbani, Christopher Frantz, Giangiacomo Bravo)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(13:30 CET) [TBD] <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(15:15 CET) Inspiration: Kavin Narasimhan, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey, UK
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