Twelfth International Workshop on

MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'11)

Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2011) Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6,

2011.

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 organization 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 organiza 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. Topics relevant 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
- organizationa and analytic tools
- approaches for large-scale simulations
- scalability and robustness in MABS
- future challenges in MABS

Simulation of social and economic organizations

- formal and agent models of social organizations
- cognitive organizations and social simulation
- game theory and simulation
- social structure: social networks and simulating organizations
- simulating social complexity (e.g. structures and norms, social order,

emergence of cooperation and coordinated action, self-organisation, the micro-macro link)

Applications / Empirical work

- MABS in environmental organizations
- 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 organizational scientists doing simulation.

MABS WORKSHOP SERIES

The workshop is a continuation of the International Workshop series on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS). More information about MABS can be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs .


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 30, 2011

Notification of acceptance: 27 February, 2011

Final manuscript due: March 13, 2011

Workshop: May 2-3, 2011


PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we intend to publish the accepted papers, after a further reviewing process, in Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI, with the title "Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XII, 12th International Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011, Revised Papers". The preliminary schedule for the post-proceedings process is the following:

Second reviewing: September, 2011

Revised camera-ready papers: October, 2011

Publication: December, 2011

SUBMISSION

We invite paper submission for MABS 2011, taking place in Taipei from 2-3 May 2011. All submitted papers must be formatted according to Springer's LNAI layout (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)

and in PDF format. The maximum number of pages is 12.

Papers should be submitted via Easychair.

Questions should be addressed to Daniel Villatoro
(dvillatoro@iiia.csic.es).

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

Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA - CSIC, Spain)

Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil);

Daniel Villatoro (IIIA - CSIC, Spain)


THE MABS STEERING COMMITTEE

Frédéric Amblard (Université Toulouse 1, France)

Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Rosaria Conte (National Research Council, Italy)

Paul Davidsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)

Scott Moss (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

Jaime Simão Sichman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Keiki Takadama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

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