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Third International Symposium on Agent Based Modeling and Simulation
Date: April 6-9, 2010
Location: University of Vienna
Submission Deadline: November 10, 2009
For more information: http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr

The notions of agents and multi-agent systems have been adopted for the modeling of complex systems in the most varied contexts: from social sciences to urban planning, biology, logistics and production, and many other more. Agent based models and simulators are used for research as well as for business/industrial applications. However, the concepts behind the term 'agent' are often quite different, as well as the goals, phases and practices involved in modeling and simulation activities. This leads to different approaches, models, mechanisms, methodologies and developed computational systems supporting simulation of the modeled realities.

The aim of this workshop, building on the experiences and results of the previous editions held in 2006 and 2008, is to bring together competencies related to agent based modeling and simulation in different contexts, first of all to foster cross fertilization but also to try to identify common goals and research issues, and to possibly identify compatible requirements for computational supports to agent based modeling and simulation.

Next to paper presentations, ample room will be available for discussions, taking advantage of the friendly setting provided by EMCSR.

** Topics of Interest **

We invite papers on all aspects relating to agent based modeling and simulation, with particular attention to interdisciplinary experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- actual MAS-based simulation experiences
- agent-based modeling methodologies
- generic or domain specific MAS models for simulation
- methodologies for the analysis of MAS-based simulation results
- multi-agent models for emergent phenomena and self-organization
- platforms for agent-based modeling and simulation
- relationships between MAS models and other computational models for the simulation of complex systems
- verification and validation of MAS-based simulations

** Authors are required to address the following issues **

- goals and context of the simulation projects (explanatory or predictive, business or research context)
- the notions and types of agents, internal architectures and decision mechanisms used
- the notion of environment used, in which the agents are situated, and the related mechanisms of interaction
- clear-cut working definitions of the basic and emerging concepts employed, grounded in theory/the literature
- a crisp and scientifically valid characterisation of the research challenge identified or results obtained

Deadline for Submission: November10, 2009
Notification for Acceptance/Rejection: December 15, 2009
Final Papers: February 5, 2010

For more information, contact:Giuseppe Vizzari giuseppe.vizzari@disco.unimib.it

2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010)
19th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 15th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)
Date: July 7-11, 2010 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Location:Portland, Oregon
Submission Deadline: January 13, 2010
Notification of Paper Acceptance: April 5, 2010
Camera-ready submission: April 5, 2010
For more information: http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) will present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation.

Topics Include:

genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.

Tutorials and Workshop Proposals:

To propose a tutorial, contact Una-May O'Reilly at unamay@csail.mit.edu
To propose a workshop, contact Jauna Bacardit at jgb@cs.nott.ac.uk
** Please include GECCO in your subject line. **

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO).

12th European Conference on Genetic Programming
Date: April 15-17, 2009
Location:Tubingen, Germany
Submission deadline: November 5, 2008
For more information: www.evostar.org

Topics include but are not limited to:

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009)
Date: July 8-12, 2009
Location: Montreal, Canada
Paper Submission Deadline: January 14, 2009
For more information: http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2009

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) will present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation.

Topics include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.

First IJCAI Workshop on Social Simulation
Date: July 12, 2009
Location: Pasadena, California
Paper Submission Deadline: March 6, 2009
For more information: http://ss-ijcai2009.de.fc.ul.pt

The workshop will provide a forum for social scientists, agent researchers and developers and simulation researchers to assess the current state of the art in modeling and simulation of social systems, identify where existing approaches can be successfully applied, learn about new approaches and explore future research challenges.

Topics include:

(1) general issues (Agent and environment modeling; Standards for simulators including inter-operability; Self-organization, scalability, robustness in MABS; MABS applications; and Methodologies and techniques that link MAS and ABSS works)

(2) MAS issues (Grid-computing for MABS; Visualization and analytic tools; Managing interactions in large-scale systems; Simulation languages and formalisms; and Complexity)

(3) ABSS issues (Formal and agent-based models of social behavior and social order; Social structures and norms; Cognitive modeling and social simulation; The emergence of cooperation and coordinated action; and Agent-based experimental economics)

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 2009
Enhancing Complex Social Simulations with Automata Systems
Date: August 26-28, 2009
Location: Royal Geographical Society, Manchester
Deadline for abstracts: February 3, 2009
For more information: www.rgs.org/AC2009

A special issue of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy Journal has been secured based on the conference papers

The 8th International Conference on Unconventional Computation
Date: Sep 7-11, 2009
Location: Ponta Delgada, Portugal
Deadline for submissions: April 10th, 2009
Notification: May 8th, 2009
Final Versions Due: June 5th, 2009

Original papers or posters are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation. Papers and posters dealing with theory as well as with experiments and applications are welcome.

Please see the website for more details and examples of typical topics.
http://www.uc09.uac.pt/

The 6th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Conference
Date: Sept. 14-18, 2009
Location: University of Surrey, Guilford (just outside of London), UK
Deadline for Submissions: April 14th, 2009
For more information: http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/essa2009

Reasonably mature papers on all aspects of social simulation will be carefully and anonymously considered – however most papers will (1) describe an individual/agent-based computer simulation (2) exhibit the outcomes of running the simulation in more than a cursory way and (3) make some comparison of these with either: evidence from, or other models of, social phenomena (human, animal or artificial). If you are in doubt as to the relevance of a paper, you may email the Scientific Chair for his opinion (see below), however the decisions about relevance will be made by the Programme Committee. See the conference website for details as to submission procedure. All the accepted papers will be included in the ESSA 2009 electronic proceedings. The best accepted papers will be published in a separate post-proceedings

NAACSOS - North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences
Date: October 23-24, 2009
Location: Arizona State University
Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2009
Notification: August 15, 2009

Over the past decade simulating social processes has achieved some level of credibility -- and yet progress in this area is stifled because of the lack of agreement on several critical core features. The objective of the 2009 conference is to allow scientists the opportunity to present work in this area that extends and solidifies the legitimacy of this methodology. Specifically, the conference organizers are asking that presenters use their models to address some of the following:

http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/

AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect
Date: Nov. 5-7, 2009
Location: Arlington, VA
For more information: http://sites.google.com/site/complexadaptivesystems/Home

Most interesting phenomena in natural and social systems include transitions and oscillations among their various phases. Companies, societies, markets, and humans rarely stay in a stable, predictable state for long. Randomness, power laws, and human behavior ensure that the future is both unknown and challenging. How do events unfold? When do they take hold? Why do some initial events cause an avalanche while others do not? What are the characteristics of these threshold phenomena that differentiate a sea change from a non-event?

Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) have proven to be a powerful tool for exploring threshold phenomena. We characterize a general CAS model as having a significant number of self-similar agents that:
Advances in modeling and computing technology have led to a deeper understanding of complex systems in many areas, and have raised the possibility that similar fundamental principles may be at work across these systems, even though the underlying principles may manifest themselves differently.

We therefore invite submissions from the community of CAS researchers that address the threshold phenomena in any of the Natural, Physical, or Social Sciences. It is our belief that by bringing together researchers from diverse fields who study these complex systems, we can leverage a deep understanding of one domain to gain insight into others.

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