NAACSOS Conference 2009
- Location: The Center of Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
- Dates: October 23-24, 2009
- Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/events/naacsos.html
NAACSOS 2009 starts this week! Be sure to get your registration in at: http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/events/naacsos.html
Everyone is cordially invited to a Meet & Greet at the Twin Palms Hotel on Thursday, October 22, 2009, starting around 6:30pm.
225 E. Apache Blvd
Tempe, AZ 85281
Hotel Front Desk: 480-967-9431
Guest speakers for the NAACSOS 2009
Friday, October 23
"Complex Networks and Dynamics: Communicability and Cycle Centrality"
Doug White
Professor of Anthropology
University of California - Irvine
External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute
Saturday, October 24
“Computational Social Science for Real-World Global Security
Applications: What can be done?”
Ed MacKerrow
Director of the Center for the Scientific Analysis of Emerging Threats
Los Alamos National Laboratory
CALL FOR PAPERS
This year our NAACSOS Annual Conference will he held on 23-24 October in Tempe, Arizona. It will be hosted by The Center of Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University.
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Tempe, AZ 85287-4804
http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/
Over the past decade simulating social processes has achieved some level of credibility -- and yet progress in this area is stifled because of the lack of agreement on several critical core features. The objective of the 2009 conference is to allow scientists the opportunity to present work in this area that extends and solidifies the legitimacy of this methodology. Specifically, the conference organizers are asking that presenters use their models to address some of the following:
- Platform selection
- Validation – using theoretical constructs or extant data
- Agent construction
- Designing social simulations experiments
- Integrating humans into simulations
- Integrating GIS and time into models
- Data reduction and analysis of simulation outcomes
- Integrating social network methods into simulation models
- Integrating feedback into agent behavior
- Agent and system evolution using agent cooperation and competition
- Integrating Individual based models from biology and ecology with agent based models
- Interfacing social simulation and social science theory construction
Submission of Abstracts
Electronic submissions of abstracts (300 words maximum) will be through EasyChair. The abstract should articulate the objectives of the presenter, a brief but thorough description of the research, and the expected gain by those attending the talk. Specific details about submission will posted on the conference website.Important Dates
July 15, 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts or proposed posters.August 15, 2009: Acceptance/Rejection notification.
October 15, 2009: Final camera-ready abstracts due in electronic form. Accepted abstracts will be distributed to the conference participants.
Review process
All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. We will be accepting only those abstracts that indicate high quality research and are consistent with the objectives of the conference.For more information about NAACSOS, visit our website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/events/naacsos.html
Conference Chair
William A. Griffin, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4804
(480)727-9833
william.griffin@asu.edu
http://www.public.asu.edu/~atwag
http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/
If you have questions please contact:
William A. Griffin, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4804
(480)727-9833
william.griffin@asu.edu
http://www.public.asu.edu/~atwag
http://www.asu.edu/clas/csdc/
Lyn Mowafy, Coordinator
ASU Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
IS&T Building 1, Room 412
480-727-9746
Lyn.Mowafy@asu.edu
Local Program Committee
- Marco Janssen, Center for Institutional Diversity
- Erik Johnston, Center for Policy Informatics