UCLA Conference Center - Directions - Map CALL FOR PAPERS plain text version THE FIRST LAKE ARROWHEAD CONFERENCE on COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AGENT-BASED MODELING in the SOCIAL SCIENCES Thursday, May 9th to Sunday, May 12th, 2002. The UCLA Conference Center is located at Lake Arrowhead, a Southern California facility situated at the 5000 elevation in the Beautiful San Bernardino mountains. It is about a two-hour drive from the Los Angeles International Airport. Map For up-to-the-moment information please: Surf to: http://ccss.ucla.edu/lake-arrowhead-2002/ Email: ccss@ucla.edu An opportunity to advance agent modeling in the social sciences. We invite social scientists who employ computational ideas and methods in their research and teaching to join us for the first annual Lake Arrowhead Conference on agent modeling. The conference will serve as a forum for sharing the most recent theoretical applications and methodological advances on agent modeling throughout the social sciences (e.g., Anthropology, Communication Studies, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Planning) and among social scientists in professional schools (e.g., Business, Education, International Relations, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Welfare) and in the public and private sectors. We are planning for a mix of plenary sessions as well as concurrent sessions on computational modeling issues, discipline-based research, and special topics to be proposed. We invite individual paper submissions and proposals for sessions (90 minutes each). WE INVITE THE FOLLOWING PAPER & SESSION TOPICS Agent Modeling Methodologies Modeling Approaches - Evolutionary Computation, Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Nets, Simulated Annealing Model Design Issues - Population Complexity, Agent Complexity, Spatial Complexity) Robustness and Validity Issues Intersections with Mathematics, Human Experiments, Social Epistemology Artificial Societies and Artificial Cultures Physical and Virtual Robot Societies and Cultures Complexity/Chaos Theory Emergent Social Structure Social Network Dynamics Spatial Analysis Game Theory Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence and Distributed Cognition Governance, Centralization, Decentralization Agent-Related Systems Dynamics Public and Private Sector Applications Topics of Your Choice We encourage papers at the cutting-edge of multi-agent modeling that are relevant to the social science community. Signed, the Co-Directors of the UCLA Center for Computational Social Science: Phil Bonacich Nicholas Gessler Susanne Lohmann Bill McKelvey Dwight Read SCHEDULE Abstracts must be received no later than October 15, 2001. Participants will be notified of acceptance no later than November 1, 2001. Payments must be received within one month of proposal acceptance and no later than December 1, 2001. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE PAPER PROPOSALS: If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email us at ccss@ucla.edu with: your full contact information including: name affiliation email address web site URL postal mail address home and work phone. a 300-word abstract SESSION PROPOSALS: If you wish to propose a session (90-120 minutes containing 3-4 individual papers), please email us at ccss@ucla.edu with: full contact information for each participant including: name affiliation email address web site URL postal mail address home and work phone. a 300-word abstract for each participant an additional 300-word session proposal Once your proposal is accepted you will be invited to submit your registration fee. Your name, affiliation, email address, Web site URL, paper title, and abstract will be made public and posted on our conference web site. FEES AND PAYMENT Checks should be payable to "UC Regents" and sent to: Center for Computational Social Science 4289 Bunche Hall University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472 Credit Card Payments: Arrangements are being made. REGISTRATION fees include admittance to all conference activities (except meals and accommodations). free for the media $50 for students $150 for academic and public sector employees $250 for private sector employees UCLA CONFERENCE CENTER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS fees include luxury suites and all meals. $150 for one day/night $300 for two days/nights $450 for three days/nights (the entire conference) only 100 suites are available OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS & MEALS may be reserved and paid individually by conference participants in the nearby Lake Arrowhead Village and other communities. We offer the following links to assist you in this endeavor. ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE Participants should arrive for dinner at 6:00pm Thursday evening, May 9th. The conference will end Saturday evening. Participants should leave after breakfast (8-9am) on Sunday. We expect relatively light traffic for the Thursday afternoon and Sunday morning drives to and from Los Angeles. CONTACT INFORMATION ccss@ucla.edu Center for Computational Social Science 4289 Bunche Hall University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472