International Workshop 24-25 November 2008 ISC-PIF\, Paris\, France
Organisers
Arnaud Banos\, Image et Ville (UMR 7011 CNRS/ULP)
Frederic Amblard\, IRIT (UMR 5055 CNRS/Université de Toulouse)
Christophe Lang\, LIFC (EA 4157\, Université de Franche-Comté)
Scientific Committee
Mike Batty (CASA-UCL\, London)
Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey\, Guildford)
Tim Kholer (Washington State University)
Lael Parrott (Complex Systems Laboratory\, University of Montreal)
Denise Pumain (Géographie-Cités\, Paris)
Frank Schweitzer (ETH\, Zurich)
Keynote speakers
Volker Grimm\, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle\, Germany\:
Individual-based models in ecology
Philippe Mathieu\, LIFL\, University of Lille\, France\: New approaches for Situated Agent
Systems
Topic of the Workshop
Agent Based Models are privileged tools in many different disciplines\, when it comes to the exploration of complex systems. Indeed\, they allow to model processes from the
bottom-up and to simulate the behaviour of a large variety of phenomena\, ranging from physical\, biological\, social\, cultural and cognitive domains.
In some specific communities\, including geography\, planning\, architecture\, archaeology\, sociology\, spatial economics\, computer sciences\, ecology\, to name but a few\, some specific models have also been imagined\, designed and tested\, which allow exploring complex spatial systems.
In that perspective\, spatially explicit agent based models are the focus of this international workshop\, organised as a joint event between the Paris-Île de France Complex Systems Institute (ISC-PIF) and the European Network “Spatial Simulation for
the Social Sciences” (S4)\, and especially its SIMBAAD working group\: “Simulation Based of Agents to Aid Decision”.
Contributions dealing with (but not limited to) the following fields of spatially explicit ABM are encouraged\:
• Formalising spatial structures and processes in agent based models
• Coupling environmental and social processes
• Formalising incomplete information and/or bounded rationality in space
• Modelling perception of space by agents
• Identifying and comparing emerging spatial patterns
• Feeding and calibration of agent models with heterogeneous and multi-sources data
• Verification and validation of individual and global behaviour
• Real-time coupling between empirical data and model
• Parallelisation and grid computing for large spatial models\, including distributed problems\: distributed clocks\, synchronisation\, load-sharing.
• Re-interpreting classic macroscopic models using an ABM approach
• Spatial agent based models for exploration\, optimisation\, decision support
Submitting a proposal
Please send before 15 september an extended abstract (3 pages\, times 12) in English to arnaud.banos@lorraine.u-strasbg.fr and christophe.lang@lifc.univ-fcomte.fr
During the workshop\, people will be encouraged to provide a full original paper of their talk\, which will be evaluated by the scientific committee for a collective publication in one
or several of the following journals\, from which we obtained an agreement\:
• Advances in Complex Systems (http\://www.worldscinet.com/acs/acs.shtml)
• Cybergeo (http\://www.cybergeo.eu/?lang=en)
• European Journal of GIS and Spatial Analysis (http\://geo.e-revues.com/)
• Journal of Artificial Society and Social Simulation
(http\://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html)
Registration fees
No registration fees are required\, as the event is granted by Region Ile de France\, ISC-PIF and S4. However\, for practical reasons\, the workshop is limited to 30 persons. Therefore a “first come\, first served” procedure will be adopted.
Important dates
• Deadline for extended abstract\: 15 September
• Acceptance notification\: 1st October
• Deadline for registration\: 10 November
Venue
The Complex Systems Institute is located 57-59 rue Lhomond F-75005 Paris\, France
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day course on \\"Build-a-Model\: Agent-Based Modelling\\" on the 26th November\, 2008.
Presenter\:
Prof. Nigel Gilbert
Dr Edmund Chattoe-Brown
Venue\: Department of Sociology\, University of Leicester\, UK
Entry Level\: Basic knowledge of computational modelling
This \\"hands on\\" course is suitable for anyone who is thinking of designing
and building their first simulation model. It provides an introduction to
the agent-based modelling tool\, NetLogo\, and guidance on designing\,
specifying and coding simple models. The course will also briefly review
other parts of a modelling methodology\, including formulating a research
question\, validation\, and reporting conclusions.
Fees\: £25 per day for postgraduate students\, £50 per day for staff of Higher Educational Institutions\, £195 per day for all others.
To register\, please visit\: http\://www.simian.ac.uk
Please help us circulate this information to others who you think may be interested in attending.
Kind regards
Lu
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Lu Yang
SIMIAN Training Manager
Centre for Research in Social Simulation
Department of Sociology
University of Surrey
Guildford\, GU2 7XH
Tel\: 01483 683762
Fax\: 01483 689551
http\://www.simian.ac.uk
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Bath\, UK\, 18th and 19th of December\, 2008
http\://eumas08.cs.bath.ac.uk/
Abstract Submission Deadline\: Sept. 12th 2008
Full Submission Deadline\: Sept. 15th 2008
Notification to Authors\: Oct. 20th 2008
In the last two decades\, we have seen a significant increase of interest in agent-oriented technology. It is crucial that both academics and industrialists within Europe have access to a forum at which current research and application issues are presented and discussed. Following in the tradition of past EUMAS (Oxford 2003\, Barcelona 2004\, Brussels 2005\, Lisbon 2006 and Hammamet 2007)\, the aim of this sixth European Workshop on MultiAgent Systems is to encourage and support activity in the research and development of multi-agent systems\, in academic
and industrial efforts. This workshop is primarily intended as a
European forum at which researchers and those interested in activities relating to research in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems could meet\, present (potentially preliminary) research results\, problems\, and issues in an open
and informal but academic environment.