BWSS 2010 - SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

BWSS 2010 -  SECOND BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL SIMULATION

[Workshop co-located with the 20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA, the XI Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Network - SBRN, the IV Intelligent Robotics Meeting - JRI (with IX Latin American Robotics Competition - LARC, and Latin American Robotics Symposium - LARS)]

São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, 23-28 October, 2010

The BWSS 2010 Website is http://www.ncc.furg.br/bwss2010 .

BWSS 2010 - Social simulation has a dialectical relationship to Artificial Intelligence, in general, and Multi-agent Systems, in particular. It is both an area for the application of methods, techniques and technologies of AI and MAS, as well as a source of inspiration for new theories, models and methods for AI and MAS, as it draws upon the theories, models and methods of the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.).

This one-day workshop will address theoretical, methodological, technical and instrumental issues concerning the area of simulation of social systems. The workshop will thus have an interdisciplinary character.

Theories and models of societies and smaller social systems that embody a computational concern are at the center of area.

Micro-level and macro-level issues concerning structures and processes at the social and individual levels, as well as the mutual influence between such conceptual levels, and problems of upward and downward causation between them should also be contemplated.

Techniques, tools and computational environments for the simulation of those models, specially those based on agent and multi-agent technology, and AI methods in general, should be of primary concern.

Application of social simulation to the various areas of social sciences (anthropology, sociology, political science, economy, government, management, etc.) should also be of interest to the audience.

BWSS 2010 will have two invited speakers:

- Prof. Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK) Title: Intra & inter-network dynamics, and the 'semantics' of the links
- Prof. Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy) Title: Modelling complex social systems: opportunities and challenges

We are cordially inviting you to submit a paper to BWSS 2010. The topics of interest are (not exclusively):

- theoretical foundations of social simulation
- methods and models for social simulation
- AI and MAS tools, techniques, models and environments for social simulation
- applications of social simulation (in research, government, management, education, etc.)


Important dates:

- Deadline for paper submission: June 28, 2010
- Notification to authors: July 28, 2010
- Camera-ready copies of papers: August 12, 2010
- Workshop date: co-located with SBIA, 23-28 October, 2010 (day yet to be announced)


Paper format:

Papers should be written in English, with at most 12 pages, and submitted in PDF format, following the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The submission system will be JEMS/SBC, through the BWSS 2010 website.  At least one author of any accepted paper should attend the workshop.


Proceedings:

The papers accepted for the workshop will be published in the Workshop Proceedings.


Best Paper:

An extended version of the best paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Program Committee, will be invited to be submitted for the JBCS - Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. (http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=2&subject=309)


Post-Proceedings:

Depending on the number of submissions, we are planning to propose a special issue on Social Simulation of the JBCS, where the authors of a selection of best papers presented at workshop, among other possible submissions, would be invited to submit extended versions of their papers, including the discussions and suggestions arised at the workshop oral presentations and working meetings.


Organizing committee:

* Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, FURG, Brazil (corresponding chair, email:
gracaliz@gmail.com)
* Diana Francisca Adamatti, FURG, Brazil
* Jaime Sichman, USP, Brazil
* João Balsa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Luis Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Patricia Tedesco, UFPE, Brazil

Program committee (preliminary list):
 

*Alessandro de Lima Bicho (FURG, Brazil)
*Alexei Sharpanskykh (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
*Ana Lucia Cetertich Bazzan (UFRGS, Brazil)
*André Maurício Cunha Campos (UFRN, Brazil)
*Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa (FURG, Brazil)
*Armando Geller (George Mason University, USA)
*Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, UK)
*Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
*Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Diana Francisca Adamatti (FURG, Brazil)
*Fabio Yoshimitsu Okuyama (FTEC, Brazil)
*Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto (UPE)
*Fernando Lopes (INETI, Portugal)
*Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
*Frederic Amblard (Universite Toulouse 1, France)
*Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro (FURG, Brazil)
*Gustavo Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil)
*Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
*Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
*Iqbal Adjali (Unilever R&D Colworth Lab, UK)
*Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
*Jean-Daniel Kant (University of Paris Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
*João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal
*Jorge Louçã (ISCTE, Portugal)
*Juan Pavón (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)
*Julie Dugdale (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France)
*Juliette Rouchier (Greqam/CNRS, France)
*Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
*Klaus Troitzsch (University of Koblenz, Germany)
*Luis Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
*Laszlo Gulyas (AITIA Intl. Inc., Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary)
*Maíra Ribeiro Rodrigues (UFMG, Brazil)
*Maria das Graças Bruno Marietto (UFABC, Brazil)
*Mario Paolucci (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
*Nick Gotts (Macaulay Institute, Scotland, UK)
*Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)
*Nuno David (ISCTE, Portugal)
*Patrícia Restelli Tedesco (UFPE, Brazil)
*Paulo Roberto Ferreira Junior (UFPel, Brazil)
*Paulo Trigo (ISEL, Portugal)
*Pedro Andrade (INPE, Brazil)
*Pietro Terna (University of Torino, Italy)
*Ricardo Rodrigo Stark Bernard (UFSC, Brazil)
*Rino Falcone (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Rosaria Conte (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
*Samer Hassan (Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain)
*Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
*Wander Jager (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)