Aims and Scope

For nearly 15 years, social simulation and computational approaches for understanding social phenomena has reached a rapidly growing audience from very different disciplines. Some researchers are attracted by new tools, methods or even paradigms to understand their object of research as is the case in sociology, economics or psychology. Others have found in simulation an interesting tool with which to communicate, negotiate or to support stakeholders' decision-making. This is the case in some political sciences, in management, and with the participative modelling approach for resource-management. Other researchers, mainly modellers, are interested by the richness of social phenomena and the challenges it presents in trying to capture even a small subset of this complexity with simple models; such is the case for computer scientists or physicists. Our wish is that ESSA 2007 is the place to bring together for these different but related interests in an interdisciplinary meeting.

Therefore researchers having an interest in simulation and social systems could consider ESSA 2007 is the right conference to submit and discuss their work.

Each submission will be refereed by 2-3 reviewers from the scientific committee. For submissions, you have the choice of submitting a regular paper (12 pages maximum in Times 12) to be presented during plenary session or a short paper (2-3 pages in Times 12) to be presented during the parallel sessions. A selection of the regular papers will be published in the post-proceedings.

Topics

The topics include, but are not limited to, the following social simulation issues:

* Agent-based simulation of social phenomena

* Micro-simulation

* Participatory modelling and simulation

* Statistical techniques for agent-based simulation

* Simulation of social networks dynamics and evolution

* Cultural dynamics

* Agent-based Computational Economics

* Norms and attitude dynamics

* Opinion dynamics

* Validation techniques for ABSS

* Comparison of simulation results with data

* Visualization for the simulation of complex systems

* Methodologies for social simulation

* Epistemological issues in agent-based simulation

* Ethical issues for simulation

* Artificial Societies and Artificial Cultures

* Spatial Analysis

* Agent-Related Systems Dynamics

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Important Dates

April 1st, 2007 Deadline for Full Papers, Short papers and Tutorial proposals

May 1st, 2007 Acceptance notifications

June 1st, 2007 Deadline for submission of final manuscript

June 1st, 2007 Deadline for early registration

Sept. 10-14, 2007 Conference

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Submission Procedures

You can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (3 pages).

Full papers will be presented either during plenary sessions or the parallel sessions, depending on their evaluation. They will be considered also for the post-proceedings publication. Short papers will be considered only for parallel sessions.

Publication

All the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2007 electronic proceedings. Best accepted papers will be published in post-proceedings.

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Registration Fees

Regular, Early Registration 175 euros

Regular, Late & On Site Registration 200 euros

Student 100 euros

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Information Needed for Proposal of Tutorial in ESSA 2007

The proposal (send to frederic.amblard@univ-tlse1.fr) should include the following information:

* Title of the Tutorial

* Information of Tutor(s): Name, Title, Affiliation

* Content of the Tutorial (about 400 words)

* Length (time) of Tutorial

* Required Facilities (such as video projector and network connection)

* Contact Person: Name, Title, Affiliation, E-mail address, Phone/Fax Number, Postal Address

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Scientific Committee

Iqbal Adjali, Unilever Corporate Research

Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution, USA

Olivier Barreteau, Cemagref, France

David Batten, CSIRO, Australia Francois Bousquet, CIRAD, France

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University, USA

Rosaria Conte, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Roma, Italy

Vince Darley, EuroBios, UK

Guillaume Deffuant, Cemagref, France

Julie Dugdale, Institut d'Informatique et Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble, France

Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK

Andreas Flache, ICS University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Laszlo Gulyas, AITIA, Hungary

David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy

Richard Harrison, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

Dirk Helbing, University of Dresden, Germany

Cesareo Hernandez Iglesias, University of Valladolid, Spain

Wander Jager, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Marco Janssen, Arizona State University, USA

Juergen Kluever, University of Essen, Germany C

hristophe Le Page, CIRAD, France

Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Michael Macy, Cornell University, USA

Thomas Malsch, University of Hamburg, Germany

Phillipe Matthieu, University of Lille, France

Ugo Merlone, University of Torino, Italy

Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK

Mario Paolucci, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Roma, Italy

Denis Phan, University of Rennes, France

Gary Polhill, The Macaulay Institute, UK

Matteo Richiardi, The LABORatorio R. Revelli, Turino, Italy

Juliette Rouchier, CNRS-GREQAM, Marseille, France

Nicole Saam, Universität Erfurt, Germany

Alex Schmid, Savannah Simulation, Switzerland

Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Jaime Simao Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil

Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy

Pietro Terna, University of Torino, Italy

Guy Theraulaz, CNRS CRCA, Toulouse, France

Klaus G. Troitzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Gerard Weisbuch, ENS, Paris, France

Organization Committee

Fred Amblard, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France

Alain Berro, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France

Pierre Mazzega, CNRS OMP, Toulouse, France

Stephane Sanchez, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France

Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, University for Social Sciences, Toulouse, France