April 8th - 9th, 2010
Ecole Normale Supérieure ULM , Paris, France

Aims and topics of the Conference

A two-day conference dedicated to communication and pedagogy of or with agent-based models in the Social Sciences.

• Methods concerning the teaching of agent-based modelling and simulation.
• Methods concerning the use of modelling and or models in a more general teaching purpose (e.g. modelling resource-users interactions to teach renewable resource management,...).
• Methods for the communication of agent-based models (e.g. methods to describe and
• communicate around models towards the scientific community, media or the society).
• The use of agent-based models in a communication purpose (e.g. serious games to sensitize a population to environmental issues).

Organization

The MAPS group (Multi-Agent modelling applied to Spatial Phenomena) is concerned by the teaching of ABM in social sciences to junior scientists and PhD students. Since 2008 an innovative training format is tested which alternates between intensive collective workshops conferences on theory and practice of ABM and teamwork) and long period of distance teamwork (using various web technologies). Each trainees group develops its own project model. MAPS2 conference aims at sharing this pedagogic experience and confronts it to other teaching practices as well as to applications of ABM for communication purpose.

Partners

• RNSC (Complex System French National Network)
• S4 (Spatial simulation for the Social Sciences) / European Modelling Tour, SIMBAAD
• CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
• Paris 1Panthéon-Sorbonne University
• PRODIG research unit (UMR 8586)
• ESSA (European Social Simulation Association)
• CITERES research unit (UMR 6173)
• DYNAFOR research unit (UMR 1201)
• IDEES research unit (UMR 6266)
• LETG research unit (UMR 6554)
• PACTE research unit (UMR 5194)

Keynote speakers

• Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany)
• Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA)
• ComMod group member
• Round table participants
• Chairman: Dawn Parker, School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Michel Etienne, Ecodevelopment Unit, INRA (France)
• Volker Grimm, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (Germany)
• Lena Sanders, Géographie-Cités, CNRS (France)
• Uri Wilensky, Centre for Connected Learning, Northwestern University (USA)

Submitting a conference proposal

Please send before 15th February 2010 (extended from 31st January) a short paper (4 to 5 pages, times 12) in English to arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr.

Final papers will be evaluated by the scientific committee for a collective publication in Journal of Artificial Society and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html)

Scientific Committee (to be confirmed)

• Luis Antunes, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
• Olivier Barreteau, UMR G-EAU, Cemagref (France)
• Edmund Chattoe, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester (UK)
• Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, CNRS (France)
• Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey (UK)
• Tim Kohler, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University (USA)
• Matthias Meyer, Whu – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany)
• Gary Polhill, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (UK)
• Alex Smajgl, CSIRO (Australia)
• Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia (Italy)

Important date

• Short paper submission: 15th February (extended from 31st January)
• Acceptance notification: 31st February (initially 15th February)
• Final paper due: 31th March
• Conference: 8th-9th April 2010

Contacts

Event organization
pierre.gautreau@univ-paris1.fr
nicolas.becu@univ-paris1.fr

Conference submission
arnaud.banos@parisgeo.cnrs.fr

MAPS 1 & 2 site
http://maps.csregistry.org/home

Organizers

• Marion Amalric, UMR CITERES, Tours.
• Frédéric Amblard, UMR IRIT, Toulouse.
• Arnaud Banos, UMR Géographie-Cités, Paris.
• Elise Beck, UMR PACTE, Grenoble.
• Nicolas Becu, UMR PRODIG, Paris.
• Sébastien Caillault, UMR LETG, Caen.
• Eric Daudé, UMR IDEES, Rouen.
• Pierre Gautreau, PRODIG, Paris.
• Nicolas Marilleau, IRD, Paris.
• Olivier Ninot, UMR PRODIG, Paris.
• David Sheeren, UMR DYNAFOR, Toulouse.
• Ion Tillier, UMR LETG, Nantes.