[Swarm-Modelling] NAACSOS Deadline Extended!

[North, Michael]

Dear NAACSOS Community,

We've received numerous requests to extend the deadline for paper submissions 
to NAACSOS 2006. We've extended the paper submission deadline to May 8, 2006. 
Please submit your papers as soon as possible to help facilitate the review 
process.

In summary:

1) Submissions for the NAACSOS 2006 conference are due May 8, 2006. All papers 
must be submitted electronically through the conference submission site at:

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

2) A sample formatting template is available at the conference web site:

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

3) A copy of the NAACSOS 2006 call-for-papers is below.

See you at NAACSOS 2006!

Mike North
Afzal Upal
NAACSOS 2006 Program Co-Chairs


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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 yearÕs 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 May 8, 2006. All papers must be submitted 
electronically through the conference submission form.
*       Acceptance decisions will be provided by May 12, 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