[info] CFP MABS 2008 - MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION at AAMAS

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CALL FOR PAPERS - M A B S 2008

Ninth International Workshop on
MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'08)

http://mabs2008.dcti.iscte.pt
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To be held at The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008) Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008.

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 synthesising 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 MABS workshop series continues to 
pursue its goal to bring
together researchers interested in MAS engineering, with researchers focused 
on finding efficient
solutions to modelling complex social systems, in such areas as economics, 
management, and
organizational and social sciences in general. In all of these areas, agent 
theories, metaphors,
models, analysis, experimental designs, empirical studies, and 
methodological principles, all
converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and predictions, 
exploring and testing
of hypotheses, better designs and systems.

The range of technical issues that MABS has dealt with, and continues to 
deal with, is quite diverse
and extensive. Relevant topics to this workshop include, but are not limited 
to, the following:

Simulation methodologies
- standards for MABS
- methodologies and simulation languages for MABS
- simulation platforms and tools for MABS
- visualisation and analytic tools
- approaches for large-scale simulations
- scalability and robustness in MABS

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

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

All of these topics are important for both the MAS community doing 
simulation, and for economic,
social, and organisational scientists doing simulation. Without limiting the 
range of traditional
topics addressed in this area, in this workshop we also expect to challenge 
the community to submit
the latest results in one additional area:

MABS in education: Opportunities and challenges

Given the relatively mature stage of simulation both in MAS engineering and 
the social/economic
sciences, the bulk of material produced for educational and pedagogical 
goals is becoming quite
significant. On the other hand, the topic of using simulation itself for 
educational purposes is
becoming a consolidated area, for which the agent paradigm provides obvious 
insights and techniques.
The potential for cross-fertilization between researchers in MAS engineering 
and social/economic
scientists may well be of significant interest, insofar as simulation 
provides opportunities for
students to practice their theoretical knowledge. In effect, one major 
benefit of work with
simulation is that students are able to conduct experiments with artificial 
agents, and gain
practical experience and convey knowledge about economic/social processes, 
that would be difficult
to isolate in natural agents.

PREVIOUS MABS WORKSHOPS

This workshop is the ninth of the MABS series. From 1998 to 2000, the 
workshop was organized every
two years, in association with ICMAS. Since 2002, the workshop has become an 
annual event, always
associated with AAMAS (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and now 2008). The 
impact of the
Multi-Agent-Based book series has been quite significant, ranked 705 among 
all publications in
computer science available from DBLP (of which there are above 1200), as 
measured for example by
databases such as citeseer (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html). This 
excellent level of
quality has been recognised since the inception of the meeting, and its 
proceedings have always been
published by Springer-Verlag, as the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Series. 
Further details of the
previous workshops can be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 25, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2008
Deadline for authors' revised contributions, according to reviewers' 
remarks: March 3, 2008
MABS 2008 Workshop, Estoril, Portugal: May 12-13, 2008

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In 
addition, following the
tradition of the previous MABS workshops, the accepted papers will be 
revised and published by
Springer-Verlag in the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI, with 
the title
"Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX, 9th International Workshop, Lisbon, 
Portugal, May 2008, Revised
Papers" (pending confirmation). The preliminary schedule for the 
post-proceedings process is the
following:

Second reviewing: September, 2008
Revised camera-ready papers: October, 2008
Publication: December, 2008

SUBMISSION

A PDF file containing the paper should be e-mailed to Nuno.David at iscte.pt by 
the 25th of January
2008.
The paper must be in Springer LNCS format (see 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and no
more than 12 pages long.

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

Nuno David (Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE, Portugal)
Jaime Sichman (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Adolfo López Paredes (INSISOC, Valladolid, Spain)
Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Alexis Drogoul (IRD, MSI research team, Vietnam)
Ana Bazzan (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Carles Sierra (IIIA, Spain)
Cesáreo Hernández Iglesias (INSISOC, Valladolid, Spain)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Sallach (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
Diana Adamatti (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Elizabeth Sklar (City University of New York, USA)
Emma Norling (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Frédéric Amblard (University of Toulouse, France)
H. Van Parunak (NewVectors LLC, USA)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Helder Coelho (Lisbon University, Portugal)
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Jan Treur (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Joao Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
Juan Pavon Mestras (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Keiki Takadama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Liz Sonenberg (University Melbourne, Australia)
Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Marco Janssen (Indiana University, USA)
Maria Marietto (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil)
Mario Paolucci (IP/CNR Rome, Italy)
Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland)
Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
Nuno David (Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE, Portugal)
Oswaldo Teran (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Paulo Novais (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Robert Axtell (George Mason University, USA)
Rosaria Conte (ISTC/CNR Rome, Italy)
Satoshi Kurihara (Osaka University, Japan)
Scott Moss (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei University, Korea)
Takao Terano (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Wander Jager (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

WORKSHOP WEB PAGE

http://mabs2008.dcti.iscte.pt

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