ESSA organises annual conferences. They continue a series of conferences which go back to 1992 when the first SimSoc conference was held in Guildford, UK, and to the first international conference on computer simulation and the social sciences (ICSS&SS) held in Cortona, Italy, in 1997. Starting in 2014, this conference series was renamed in "Social Simulation Conference".
The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from the 25th to the 29th August 2025 at the TU Delft, the Netherlands. 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… MORE
The 19th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2024) took place from 16th to 20th September 2024 at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. This year’s special theme will be “Social Simulation – crossroads between social science and computational methods”, focused on modelling of social phenomena, computational aspects and the theory linking these two scientific fields.
The Social Simulation Conference 2023 will be organized by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, 4-8th September 2023. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) to promote social simulation and computational social science in Europe and elsewhere. This year’s special… MORE
The 17th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2022) took take place from 12–16 September 2022 at the University of Milan, Italy. The conference was organised in a hybrid format with plenary sessions of general interest, invited lectures and parallel sessions, tracks and workshops. ESSA-related events took place, including a general assembly and a final cerimony… MORE
The 2021 Social Simulation Conference will be held at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. It will take place from 20th to 24th September 2021 at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. See the conference website. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social… MORE
Due to the regrettable cancellation of the Social Simulation Conference 2020 in Milan, the Management Committee of ESSA have agreed to trial a new kind of on-line event we are calling “Social Simulation Week” to be run over the same time-period as the conference was to have been run (14-18 September). See http://ssc2020.behavelab.org/ for details… MORE
The 2019 Social Simulation Conference will be held at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Conference website: https://ssc2019.uni-mainz.de/
Save the dates! Conference: 20-24 August http://ssc2018.dsv.su.se/
The “Social Simulation Conference 2017: Social Simulation for a Digital Society” will be held in Dublin, Ireland, on 25-29 September 2017. It will be hosted by University College Dublin and chaired by Diane Payne (UCD Dynamics Lab). Among the invited speakers: Michael Batty (UCL, London), Blake LeBaron (Brandeis International Business School), Arnout van de Rijt (Utrecht… MORE
The Social Simulation Conference 2016 will be held in Rome on 19-23 September 2016. It will be the 6th joint meeting (previously known as WCSS) of the three main scientific societies that promote social simulation and computational social science worldwide, namely ESSA (European Social Simulation Association), PAAA (Pacific-Asian Association for Agent-based Approach in Social Systems… MORE
