[alife] Second Call for Papers - Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) 2013

[Shah Jamal Alam]

*MABS’13 - The Fourteenth International Workshop on
Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Multi-Agent Simulation*
In conjunction with AAMAS 2013, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 6th-10th May 2013

* Submission deadline: February 3, 2013
For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/mabsworkshop/
*
Aims and scope. The meeting of researchers from MAS engineering and the
social/economic/organizational sciences is extensively recognized for its
role in cross-fertilization, and has undoubtedly been an important source
of inspiration for the body of knowledge that has been produced in the MAS
area. Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is a vibrant inter-disciplinary
area which brings together researchers within the agent-based social
simulation community (ABSS) and the Multiagent Systems community (MAS).

The focus of ABSS is on simulating and organization social behaviours in
order to understand real social systems via the development and testing of
new concepts. The focus of MAS is on the solution of hard engineering
problems related to the construction, deployment and efficient operation of
multiagent systems. The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with,
and continues to deal with, is quite diverse and extensive.

The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with and continues to
deal with is diverse and extensive and includes:
Simulation methodologies:
- standards for MABS
- methodologies and simulation languages for MABS
- simulation platforms and tools for MABS
- visualization and analytic tools
- approaches for large-scale simulations
- scalability and robustness in MABS

Simulation of social and economic behavior:
- formal and agent models of social behavior
- cognitive modeling and social simulation
- game theory and simulation
- social structure: social networks and simulating organizations
- simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social
order, emergence of cooperation and coordinated action,
self-organization, the micro-macro link)

Applications:
- MABS in environmental modeling
- agent-based experimental economics
- participative-based simulation
- MABS and games

In addition to the above topics, we are also interested in submissions that
address issues that have attracted MABS in the recent years.
These include,
-       Data driven simulations
-       MABS that link real-world data in real time.
-       simulation modelling of multidirectional dynamics in complex social
systems
-       Provenance and ontology-driven approaches in building simulations
-       Use of qualitative Evidence to inform behavioral rules
-       Design and analysis of simulation experiments including uncertainty
analysis
-       Handling Big Data in MABS including sense-making


MABS WORKSHOP SERIES
The workshop is a continuation of the International Workshop series
on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS). Further details of the
previous workshops can be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs/.

* IMPORTANT DATES*
* February 3, 2013 - Deadline for paper submission.*
March 1, 2013 - Acceptance or rejection notification is sent to authors.
March 10, 2013 - Deadline for authors sending their revised
contribution, according to reviewers’ remarks.
May 6-57, 2013 - MABS 2013 workshop takes place.

PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In
addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we intend
to publish the accepted papers, after a further reviewing process, in
Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI.

SUBMISSION
All submitted papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNAI layout (
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and in PDF format. The
maximum number of pages is 12. Papers should be submitted via Easychair (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mabs13)

ACCEPTANCE STANDARDS
All submissions will go through a peer review process, with two or three
independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to be
1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work, and 3) of
good quality and clarity will be accepted. Following the workshop,
participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo a
second review process before publication in the post-proceedings.

ORGANISATION
H. Van Dyke Parunak (Jacobs Technology, USA)
Shah Jamal Alam (University of Edinburgh, UK)

THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE
Frédéric Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)
Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy)
Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
Scott Moss (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Keiki Takadama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

For the workshop related queries, contact mabs13 at easychair.org
For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/site/mabsworkshop/