Call for Papers 2014

São Paulo, Brazil
Universidade de São Paulo
4­7 November, 2014
http://www.wcss2014.pcs.usp.br

You are invited to participate in the biennial World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS).

The conference is in São Paulo, Brazil, November 4­7, 2014.

Computational Social Science (CSS) is a scientific discipline where computational methods and simulation models are employed to offer new insights into social phenomena beyond what is available with traditional social science methods.

The WCSS is sponsored by the three regional scientific associations on social simulations: ESSA (the European Social Simulation Association), PAAA (Pan­Asian Association for Agent­based Approach in Social Systems Sciences) and CSSSA (Computational Social Science Society of the Americas). The goal of WCSS is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the social and computational sciences to share theoretical advances, practical applications, social media analyses, and novel methods in computational social science.

Special Sessions

1. Business and Organizational Dynamics
   ■ Supply Chain modeling and simulation
   ■ CSS applied to Marketing Science
   ■ Organizational Dynamics

2. Economic and Financial Systems
   ■ Advances to Neo­classical economics
   ■ Systemic and Operational Risk
   ■ Econophysics
   ■ Microstructure market simulation
   ■ Bubble economics

3. Environmental & Ecological Science
   ○ Climate impact on societies
   ○ Climate policy analyses
   ○ Behavioral response / Adaption to Climate Change Policy ○ Economics of Climate Change ○ Water security ○ Food security

4. Policy Design and Analysis
   ○ Social Decisions
   ○ Health Care
   ○ Epidemiology
   ○ Participatory simulations
   ○ Societal transitions

5. Social Science
   ○ Dynamics of Social Networks
   ○ Social Network Analysis
   ○ Mathematical and Computational Sociology ○ Quantitative Social Science ○ Evaluation, Accreditation, Verification & Validation of CSS models ○ Simulation of scientific process ○ CSS methods in Political Science ○ Evolution of Social Norms

6. Data for Computational Social Science ○ Using social media to inform CSS models ○ CSS models based on anthropological surveys, data, and narratives ○ Online communities and online behaviors as data sources.

Submissions:

The WCCS program committee invites papers and posters concerning computational models of social phenomena. Models from all social science disciplines are welcomed.

All submissions, including posters, will be subject to peer review.

Papers and posters can be submitted for review at the easyChair system. Submit paper sand Register for the conference at : http://www.wcss2014.pcs.usp.br/

Papers:

Papers should be submitted in Springer’s ‘Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)’ format. Papers should be no more than 12 pages including bibliography and all figures. The ODD (Overview, Design Concepts, and Details) protocol may be used to document submitted models (see http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=10466). The ODD is optional and will not be counted toward the 12 page limit.

Posters:

Poster submissions require only an 800 word abstract. They should be clearly marked as poster submissions.

Paper Publication:

Outstanding submissions presented in WCSS2014 will be published by Springer the WCSS proceedings.

Organizations & Sponsors:

Conference Chair:
Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Program Committee Co­Chairs:
Edward MacKerrow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (CSSSA) Takao Terano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (PAAA) Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy (ESSA)

Important Dates:
Submissions Due: July 25th, 2014
Author Notification: August 31st, 2014
Revisions Due: September 30th, 2014
Conference Dates: November 4­7, 2014