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
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The Seventh ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation will be held in Rome, Italy on 26-30 September 2016. The school chair is Mario Paolucci (CNR, Rome). The programme consists of lectures from experienced social simulation modellers and hands-on practice on NetLogo. The Faculty includes Gary Polhill (The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK), Flaminio Squazzoni… MORE
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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
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Social Simulation Conference 2015 was held in Groningen, The Netherlands, on 14-18 September 2015. Invited speakers were Joshua M. Epstein (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Klaus G. Troitzsch (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and Tom Snijders (Oxford University, NL).
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The Sixth ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands on 21-25 September 2015. The programme consisted of lectures from experienced social simulation modellers, student group work and hands-on practice on NetLogo. The Faculty included Andreas Ernst (University of Kassel, Germany), Gary Polhill (James Hutton Institute, UK), Tatiana Filatova (University of Twente, NL) and Gert… MORE
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The Fifth World Congress on Social Simulation was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 4-7 November 2014. It was jointly organised by PAAA (Pacific and Asia), CSSSA (North America) and ESSA (Europe). It was co-sponsored by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), FAPESP and CAPES Foundation. Invited speakers were Shu-Heng Chen (Chengchi University,… MORE
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Social Simulation Conference 2014 was held in Barcelona, Spain, on 1-5 September 2014. Invited speakers were Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Cesáreo Hernández (University of Valladolid, Spain) and Tim A. Kohler (Washington State University, USA).
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The Fourth ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation was held in Hamburg, Germany on 15-19 July 2013. The programme consisted of lectures from experienced social simulation modellers, student group work and practice. The Faculty included Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK), Klaus G. Troitzsch (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Scott Moss (Metropolitan Manchester Business School, UK) and Mathias Meyer (Hamburg… MORE
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The Ninth ESSA Conference in Social Simulation was held in Warsaw, Poland, on 16-20 September 2013. Invited speakers were Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Rob Axtell (George Mason University, USA) and Andrzej Nowak (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland).
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The third ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation was held in Toulouse, France on 2-6 July 2012. The programme consisted of two lectures per day from experienced modellers, and a tutorial session led by experienced researchers where participants acquires practice on agent-based simulation platform and social network analysis tools. The Faculty included Olivier Barreteau (IRSTEA, France), Guillaume… MORE
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