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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">***Apologies for cross-posting.***</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you are working with making more realistic models of human deliberation, please consider submitting your work (long paper, short paper, extended abstract, poster) to the special track
“Sense & Sensibility: Modelling human deliberation and decision-making” at the Social Simulation Conference (16-20 September 2024, Cracow, Poland).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission link:</span><a href="https://ssc2022.behavelab.org/submissions/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span></a><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">https://ssc2024.uek.krakow.pl/call-for-submissions/</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline: 08th of May 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For details of the call, see below the signature.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This special track is supported by the ESSA SIG MOOD (Models of Human Deliberation).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Looking forward to receiving your contributions,<br>
Loïs, Melania, Friederike, and Vivek.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Special track @ SSC2024: Sense & Sensibility: Modelling human deliberation and decision-making</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Track chairs: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Loïs Vanhée, Umeå University, Sweden</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Melania Borit, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Friederike Wall, University of Klagenfurt, Austria</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Vivek Nallur, University College London, UK</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Replicating human-like decisions is at the core of agent-based social simulation. As such, we need data, theories, models, and methods for the design and validation of agents that reproduce
authentic and realistic features of human deliberation (e.g. most deprived needs tend to yield to the greater corrective action) while also accounting for the constraints and aims of social simulations (e.g. covering specific social phenomena, scalability
to many agents).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The current prevailing approach to model human decision-making in social simulation revolves around the random selection of behaviors from data-driven probability distributions. While
this approach has its benefits, it can be blind to psychological dynamics that may be key to the accuracy of the conclusions of the model (e.g. coherence of decisions over time) [1,2,3]. If we want to expand the range of phenomena social simulation can cover
and the quality of our simulations and conclusions derived from them, we need our models to be further anchored in the findings identified by psychology and cognitive sciences. However, the questions of how to produce such models and how to balance the specific
considerations they entail (e.g. time, collaborative effort, complexity, validation, social implications) with simulation benefits (e.g. realism, explainability) remain open and are the subject of this special track.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This track is open to all contributions dedicated to the study of agents featuring human-like realistic deliberation within social simulation, which include, but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">theoretical papers</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> importing insights from human sciences that can
be relevant for developing realistic human-like deliberation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">modelling papers</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> proposing and testing the suitability of psychology/cognitive
science-inspired models in social simulations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">methods & engineering papers</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> introducing approaches for validating
psychology/cognitive science-inspired agent models and for supporting designers and users in deploying such models (e.g. design tradeoffs)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">society-oriented papers</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> detailing how the broader society relates
to simulations featuring realistic human-like deliberation, such as responses of system users, narratives, ethical frameworks, critical theories, social impact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">structuring papers</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> developing key concepts that are central for
the field, supporting the organization of related communities, and identifying venues with high scientific and social prospects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The track welcomes any scientific methodology.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[1] Castelfranchi, C. (2001) The theory of social functions: challenges for computational social science and multi-agent learning.
<i>Cognitive Systems Research</i>, <i>2</i>(1), 5-38.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[2] Edmonds, B. (2012) Context in social simulation: why it can’t be wished away.
<i>Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory</i> 18(1), 5-21.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[3] Jensen, M., Lorig, F., Vanhée, L., & Dignum, F. (2021) Deployment and Effects of an App for Tracking and Tracing Contacts During the COVID-19 Crisis. In
<i>Social Simulation for a Crisis</i> (pp. 167-188). Springer, Cham.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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