[Swarm-Modelling] NAACSOS 2006 CFP

[North, Michael]

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL
SCIENCES

JUNE 22 - 23, 2006,

NOTRE DAME, INDIANA (USA)

http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2006

The North American Society for Computational Social & Organizational
Sciences is pleased to announce its 14th annual conference and to invite
individual paper submissions and proposals for panels consisting of
multiple presentations focused around a theme.  The NAACSOS annual
meetings have become the premier event for the presentation of work
related to computational modeling of a range of social and
organizational processes.  Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the
work at the confluence of social networks, complexity, and multiagent
systems, the past conferences have attracted international researchers
from a wide variety of disciplines including social sciences such as
sociology, economics, and political science; computational sciences such
as computer science, informatics, and mathematics; and management
science who share the goal of advancing the state of science in formal
reasoning, analysis, and system building. Such research has the
potential to lead to the development of new theories that describe,
explain, and predict the behavior of complex adaptive systems, and new
methods for integrating data, computational models, and analysis and
visualization techniques.  The theme of this year's conference will be
the role of computational models in connecting nested macro and micro
levels and showing how each level affects the others.  We particularly
encourage papers that directly address these topics but submissions
addressing all aspects of computational modeling of social and
organizational processes are welcome.  This includes:

1. Computational theorizing about complex socio-cognitive-technical
systems, including organizations, commerce, markets, societies,
institutions, privacy issues and technology enhanced environments.

2. New computational, especially agent-based, multi-agent, cognitive, or
social network-based models for studying, reasoning about, or providing
policy guidance with respect to socio-cognitive- technological,
social-psychological, interactional, social, organizational, political,
or technological systems.

3. Papers presenting, validating, or applying network models or
computational techniques are strongly encouraged.

In addition, papers that take any of these foci are encouraged:

1. Applications work using computational models;

2. Theoretical research using computational models on fundamental
principles of social action and interaction, such as coordination,
cooperation, hierarchy, evolution, and destabilization;

3. Computational or network modeling related to corporate, military or
intelligence issues, including papers on counter-terrorism;

4. Computational social, organizational, or economic science;

5. New algorithms for or dynamic metrics of interaction, network or
relational data;

6. Complex social or organizational systems models;

7. Teams, organizations, and swarms of intelligent agents;

8. Computational statistics for networks;

9. Automated organizational design tools;

10. Automated data collection tools for use with computational models;

11. Ethical use of, and privacy issues related to, social, relational
and computational data;

12. Infrastructure for large scale multi-agent simulation;

13. Coordination, social cognition, or group performance;

14. Social science models using grid-based computing or super computers;

15. Comparison, contrast and docking of computational models - new
approaches and/or actual comparisons;

16. Advances in grounding, tuning, and validating computational models,
including new techniques that can be generalized across many models, and
new empirical tests of specific models; and

17. Methods for calibrating, assessing, verifying and validating
agent-based models and simulations.

Important Dates:

* Paper submissions are due by April 28, 2006. All papers must be
submitted electronically through the conference submission form.
* Acceptance decisions will be provided by May 8, 2006.
* Camera ready copy is due May 25, 2006.
* The deadline for early registration is May 20, 2006.
* The conference is June 22-23, 2006.
* Preconference tutorials June 21 (evening)

Contacts for Further Information:

Content, sessions and demos:
* M. Afzal Upal (Program Co-chair), 419-530-8145, address@hidden
* Michael J. North (Program Co-chair), 630-252-6234, address@hidden

Local on-scene logistics:
Greg Madey (Conference and Local Arrangements Chair), 574-631-8752,
address@hidden

Website and online paper submission:
Jana Diesner, 412-268-5866, address@hidden

Submission Format:

Formats (Word or PDF preferred):
* Full Papers (4-6 pages).
* Panels (2-4 page description, including panelists names, affiliations
and a 100-200 word abstract for each presentation)
* Posters (200-300 word summary)
* Software Demos (200-300 word summary)

Each submission must be in format specified on the conference web site.

All accepted papers will be published in the official conference
proceedings, provided the presenter pre-registers for the conference.

Student Paper Competition: Papers submitted by graduate students will be
reviewed for the best student paper competition. Papers submitted by
graduate students for this competition should be identified as such and
will be reviewed for the best student paper competition. The student
paper winning this award will be published in Computational and
Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT).

General Paper Competition: Other papers will be reviewed for a best
paper award. The extended version of the best paper will also be
published in CMOT along with keynote papers.

Location:
The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Notre
Dame, (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) in the McKenna Hall Conference Center.

Travel, Hotel, and Registration:
Travel directions, hotel accommodations, registration, and program are
posted at the conference web site.

Conference Web Site:

http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2006