Month: November 2012

Call for Papers: 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference

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9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013

The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference.

The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences.

Scope and Interests

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Applications of agent-based modeling in social sciences
    • Agent-based computational economics & finance
    • Conflict resolution & cooperation
    • Coupled human-natural systems
    • Diffusion of innovations
    • Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
    • Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
    • Group decisions & collective behaviors
    • Market design, mechanism design & auctions
    • Privacy, safety & security
    • Public policy & regulatory issues
    • Resource management, environmental practices & policy
    • Social emergence & evolution of institutions
    • Social media and volunteered information
    • Social networks and their dynamics
  • Tools and methods for development of simulation models 
    • Advanced distributed computing
    • Agent ontologies
    • Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
    • Model replication, verification & validation
    • Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
    • Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
  • Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analyzing simulation outputs
    • Coupling simulations and optimization methods
    • Data analysis software for simulations
    • Experiment design and data farming for simulations
    • Simulation metamodels
    • Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data

Submission

  • Full paper – in the length of 10 to 12 pages, which should be comprehensive and consists of detailed presentation of theory, methodology and simulation results
  • Extended abstract – in the length of 3 to 4 pages, which presents the current topic in progress with enough detail to ensure proper evaluation
  • Poster – should present the current work in progress

 Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:

  • Adaptive behavior , social interactions and global environmental change: an agent-based perspective (chairs: T. Filatova, G. Polhill, R. van Duinen)
  • Applications of computational social science in conflict and sensitive contexts (chair: A. Geller)
  • Business applications of computational social science (chair: M. Łatek)
  • Heterogeneity and interaction in macroeconomic modeling (chair: G. Koloch)
  • Social simulation of science processes (chair: F. Squazzoni)
  • Statistical analysis of simulation models (chair: B. Kamiński)
  • Using qualitative rules to inform behavioral rules (chair: B. Edmonds)

Important dates

  • Registration opens: 1 January 2013
  • Paper submission closes: 1 March 2013
  • Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2013
  • Final manuscript due: 15 May 2013

Paper publication

  • Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrich’s, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink).
  • Authors of selected full papers or extended abstracts will be invited to submit their extended version for special issue of Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, http://cejeme.org/ (indexed by IndexCopernicus, IC Value in 2011: 4.85 and RePEc).
  • Full paper abstracts, extended abstracts and poster summaries will be presented on conference website.

Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org

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Call for Papers: 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference

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9th European Social Simulation Association Conference
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
September 16-20, 2013

The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference.

The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences.

Scope and Interests

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Applications of agent-based modeling in social sciences
    • Agent-based computational economics & finance
    • Conflict resolution & cooperation
    • Coupled human-natural systems
    • Diffusion of innovations
    • Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
    • Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
    • Group decisions & collective behaviors
    • Market design, mechanism design & auctions
    • Privacy, safety & security
    • Public policy & regulatory issues
    • Resource management, environmental practices & policy
    • Social emergence & evolution of institutions
    • Social media and volunteered information
    • Social networks and their dynamics
  • Tools and methods for development of simulation models 
    • Advanced distributed computing
    • Agent ontologies
    • Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
    • Model replication, verification & validation
    • Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
    • Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
  • Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analyzing simulation outputs
    • Coupling simulations and optimization methods
    • Data analysis software for simulations
    • Experiment design and data farming for simulations
    • Simulation metamodels
    • Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data

Submission

  • Full paper – in the length of 10 to 12 pages, which should be comprehensive and consists of detailed presentation of theory, methodology and simulation results
  • Extended abstract – in the length of 3 to 4 pages, which presents the current topic in progress with enough detail to ensure proper evaluation
  • Poster – should present the current work in progress

 Contributions can be submitted to general session or the following special tracks:

  • Adaptive behavior , social interactions and global environmental change: an agent-based perspective (chairs: T. Filatova, G. Polhill, R. van Duinen)
  • Applications of computational social science in conflict and sensitive contexts (chair: A. Geller)
  • Business applications of computational social science (chair: M. Łatek)
  • Heterogeneity and interaction in macroeconomic modeling (chair: G. Koloch)
  • Social simulation of science processes (chair: F. Squazzoni)
  • Statistical analysis of simulation models (chair: B. Kamiński)
  • Using qualitative rules to inform behavioral rules (chair: B. Edmonds)

Important dates

  • Registration opens: 1 January 2013
  • Paper submission closes: 1 March 2013
  • Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2013
  • Final manuscript due: 15 May 2013

Paper publication

  • Accepted full papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrich’s, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink).
  • Authors of selected full papers or extended abstracts will be invited to submit their extended version for special issue of Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, http://cejeme.org/ (indexed by IndexCopernicus, IC Value in 2011: 4.85 and RePEc).
  • Full paper abstracts, extended abstracts and poster summaries will be presented on conference website.

Local organizing committee contact: contact@essa2013.org
Conference website: http://www.essa2013.org

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The value of “analog” user experience

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I’ve been using 37Signals’ Basecamp now for over 5 years. I’m involved in many projects with people from multiple departments and organisations. In the first large project that I run in 2007 – Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities – Basecamp was recommended to us by Nick Black (just before he co-founded CloudMade), so we’ve started […]

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37signals, Basecamp, Misc, Project management, Sherry Turkle, Usability

Higher Education and Social Enterprise: feedback loops and interactions

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Last week, I attended a round table discussion about Social Enterprise and Higher Education Institutions at the department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The meeting was part of a larger event on social enterprise that was organised by Social Enterprise UK and UnLtd to mark Social Enterprise day. The discussion explored different aspects in […]

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BIS, HEFCE, Social Enterprise, social enterprise day, UCL, unltd

Britain on the Move 2012

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Tweet17th-18th December 2012 To be held at the RGS-IBG Headquarters, London Background to the conference 20 years ago, Champion and Fielding’s (1992) two volume edited collection on migration patterns and processes was published.  This provided a landmark intervention within migration studies and wider human geography, demonstrating how different types of migration in GB were undergoing […]

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3D Paris – An Interactive approach

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image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

for more images:
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3d cities, iPad, Virtual Worlds

3D Paris – An Interactive approach

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image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

for more images:
Read more »

Continue reading »
3d cities, iPad, Virtual Worlds

3D Paris – An Interactive approach

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image source: obey magazine

3D Paris is an interactive application designed for IPad and following Recce, it aims in bringing the 3D city closer to the user. The viewer can wander in the streets of Paris of 1829, learn about the evolution of the city, or enjoy an aerial view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel tower.

In this application the city itself becomes the object of interest, creating a bridge between the broader public and urban history. Virtual reality and the interactive approaches of gaming are being applied on the actual form of the city and that makes me wonder of how long till we see interactive city planning.

In any case, watching something like this makes me anticipate for an application narrating the history of Athens, the Parthenon and the Ancient Agora. I am looking forward to chatting with the ancient philosophers instead of kinect’s (now cancelled) “Milo“…

Experience 3D Paris in your browser at:
http://paris.3ds.com/#Patrimoine

for more images:
Read more »

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3d cities, iPad, Virtual Worlds

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics / Quantitative Social Science – University of Manchester

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Tweet Closing date :30/11/2012 Reference :HUM-01939 Faculty / Organisational unit :Humanities School / Directorate :School of Social Sciences Division :Social Statistics Salary : £32,901 to £55,908 Employment type :Permanent Hours per week :Full-time Location :Oxford Road We wish to recruit three Lecturers or Senior Lecturers in Social Statistics / Quantitative Social Science.  These posts are tenable […]

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