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ESSA 2011



September 19-23, 2011
Montpellier - France


Scholars interested in the emergence of social simulation as a methodology in many research fields and disciplines should come to The 7th European Social Simulation Association Conference. It will be the opportunity to present new results and exchange experience with the leading researchers.

 Papers and presentations will focus on a wide range of actual research from very abstract artificial societies to empirical models, from methodological advances to simulation results and their comparison with evidence, from theoretical developments on decisions, networks, collective action, and policies to the lessons of simulations for decision-makers. 

 

A selection of the regular papers will be published in the post-proceedings. Following the tradition of previous ESSA conferences best papers will be published in journal and books.

 

The topics include, but are not limited to:

General social models and their properties:

● Social networks and their dynamics
● Information and opinion dynamics
● Trust, reputation and norm dynamics
● Conflict and cooperation
● Coupling social and natural dynamics
● Group decisions and collective behaviours
● Emergence and evolution of institutions
● Social emergencies and social failures (crime, corruption, social unrest, financial crises, conflict, etc.)

● Agent-based Computational Economics
● Cultural and cultures' dynamics and evolution
● Opinion dynamics
● The wisdom-of-crowds and P2Pthe wisdom-of-crowds and P2P stuff
● Epistemological issues in agent-based simulation
● Ethical issues for simulation
 
Specific models derived from case studies or experiments:
● Resource management and environnemental practices
● Market dynamics and consumer behaviour
● Simulation of experimental studies (experimental economics, psycho-sociology)
● Innovation diffusion
● Policy impact simulation
● Electronically mediated social systems
· Simulated ethology and comparative studies
 ·   Simulating history, case studies and non-evenemential processes
 
 
Tools and methods:
● Programming computational frameworks
● Agent-based simulation of social phenomena
● Micro-simulation
● Model replication and validation
● Statistical techniques for result interpretation
● Simulation experiment software
● Participatory modelling and social simulation

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