Call for Papers – Enhancing Complex Social Simulations with Automata Systems, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012
Abstracts are invited for a session held by the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers International Conference 2012. The conference runs between 3rd – 5th July 2012.
More about the session:
This session aims to bring together researchers to report on progress in diverse types of automata systems in social simulation. We encourage the submission of theoretical, experimental, methodological and application papers related to Cellular Automata (CA) and Agent‐Based Modelling (ABM). Papers may include, but are not limited to:
- Artificial social systems.
- Agents and social networks.
- Modelling complexity in social simulations.
- Large scale social simulation.
- Social behaviour, social actions and interactions.
- Models of competition, cooperation and negotiation.
- Multi‐agent evolution: adaptation and learning.
- Hybrid automata models.
- Validation and verification of simulation results and simulation systems.
- Novel approaches to visualisation
The GIScRG will provide one bursary for this session, sponsored by the GIScRG for a paper (co-)authored by a postgraduate student; priority will be given to postgraduate students also delivering the paper. The bursary will cover the reduced conference fee for the student for the duration of the conference. It is a requirement that the student is an RGS-IBG Postgraduate Fellow at the time the bursary is awarded [Annual membership costs from £27 (with no joining fee)].
Titles and abstracts (no longer than 250 words) should be emailed to Alison Heppenstall (a.j.heppenstall[AT]leeds.ac.uk), Mike Batty (m.batty[AT]ucl.ac.uk) and Mark Birkin (m.h.birkin[AT]leeds.ac.uk) by Friday 16th December 2011. Notification of acceptance will be given by mid-January 2012.