MAPS2 Conference ((Multi-Agent modelling applied to Spatial Phenomena))

Dear S4 Members,

We are pleased to announce the

MAPS2 Conference
Teaching of/with Agent-Based Models in the Social Sciences
April 8th-9th, 2010
Paris, France

Aims and topics of the Conference:
A two-day conference dedicated to communication and pedagogy of or with agent-based models in the Social Sciences.
· Methods concerning the teaching of agent-based modelling and simulation.
· Methods concerning the use of modelling and or models in a more general teaching purpose (e.g. modelling resource-users interactions to teach renewable resource management,...).
· Methods for the communication of agent-based models (e.g. methods to describe and
communicate around models towards the scientific community, media or the society).
· The use of agent-based models in a communication purpose (e.g. serious games to sensitize a population to environmental issues).

Organization
The MAPS group (Multi-Agent modelling applied to Spatial Phenomena) is concerned by the teaching of ABM in social sciences to junior scientists and PhD students. Since 2008 an innovative training format is tested which alternates between intensive collective workshops (conferences on theory and practice of ABM and teamwork) and long period of distance teamwork (using various web technologies). Each trainees group develops its own project model. MAPS2 conference aims at sharing this pedagogic experience and confronts it to other teaching practices as well as to applications of ABM for communication purpose.

Partners
RNSC (Complex System French National Network)
S4 (Spatial simulation for the Social Sciences) / European Modelling Tour, SIMBAAD
CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Laboratoire PRODIG, UMR 8586.
ESSA (European Social Simulation Association)

Agenda (cf. pdf file enclosed)

Proposed keynote speakers
Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany).
Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA).
COMMOD group member.

Proposed round table participants (to be confirmed)
Chairman: Dawn Parker, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada
Michel Etienne, Ecodevelopment Unit, INRA (France)
Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany)
Lena Sanders, Géographie-Cités, CNRS (France)
Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA)

Submitting a conference proposal
Please send before 31 January 2010 an short paper (4 to 5 pages, times 12) in English
to [email protected]. Eight conferences will be selected.

Final papers will be evaluated by the scientific committee for a collective publication in Journal of Artificial Society and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html)

Scientific Committee (to be confirmed)
Luis Antunes, Department of Informatics, University of Lisboa (Portugal)
Olivier Barreteau, UMR G-EAU, Cemagref (France)
Edmund Chattoe, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester (UK)
Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, CNRS (France)
Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey (UK)
Tim Kholer, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida (USA)
Matthias Meyer, Institute of Management Control and Accounting, Hamburg University (Germany)
Gary Polhill, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (UK)
Alex Smajgl, CSIRO (Australia)
Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia (Italy)

Important dates
Short paper submission: 31th January
Acceptance notification: 15th February
Final paper due: 31th March
Conference: 8-9 April 2010

Contacts
Event organization:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Conference submission:
[email protected]
MAPS 1 & 2 site: http://maps.csregistry.org/home

Organizers
- Marion Amalric, UMR CITERES, Tours University.
- Frédéric Amblard, IRIT, UMR 5055 CNRS/ Toulouse University.
- Arnaud Banos, UMR Géographie-Cités, CNRS/ Paris1 University.
- Elise Beck, UMR PACTE, CNRS/ Grenoble University.
- Nicolas Becu, PRODIG, UMR 8586 CNRS/ Paris1 University.
- Sébastien Caillault, UMR LETG, CNRS/ Caen University.
- Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, CNRS/
- Pierre Gautreau, PRODIG, UMR 8586, CNRS/ Paris1 University.
- Nicolas Marillaud, IRD
- Olivier Ninot, UMR PRODIG, CNRS.
- David Sheeren, UMR DYNAFOR.
- Ion Tillier, UMR LETG, CNRS/ Nantes University.

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Happy New Year 2010!

Marie Noelle Comin

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