The 26th ECMS will be hosted on the Koblenz Campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, from May 29 till June 1st, 2012. This time this conference on modelling and simulation will contain several new tracks which are particularly interesting for the SIMSOC community. The full call for papers can be found at http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/CFP2012.pdf, preliminary local information is at http://ecms.uni-koblenz.de/

The tracks most interesting for members of the SIMSOC community are the following:

Agent-Based Simulation (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/abs.html), chaired by Michael Möhring, Koblenz, DE

Finance, Economics and Social Science (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/fe.html), chaired by Francisco Javier Otamendi Fernandéz de la Puebla, Ávila, ES

Simulation-Based Business Research (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/sbbr.html), chaired by Matthias Meyer, Hamburg-Harburg, DE

Policy Modelling (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/pm.html), chaired by Maria Wimmer, Koblenz, DE

Social Dynamics and Collective Behaviour (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/sdcb.html), chaired by Flaminio Squazzoni, Brescia, IT

Deadline for paper submission is February 16, 2012, Registration will open soon and is a prerequisite for submission (see http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2012/authorkit.html).