ANNOUNCE CFP: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics

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John Sterman
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ANNOUNCE CFP: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics

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FYI,

John Sterman

>Call for papers: Modeling Urban Social Dynamics
>
>7 - 8 April 2005
>
>Policymakers and academic researchers have a
>longstanding interest in understanding how
>cities evolve and change. However, conventional
>methods of modeling urban development have not
>been able to capture the complexities and
>historical particularities of urban social
>dynamics. Recently, new forms of computational
>modeling, including agent-based modeling, have
>begun to be used, but as yet there is no
>agreement about how such models should be
>constructed and evaluated, and the kinds of task
>for which they are best suited. This
>inter-disciplinary workshop aims to provide a
>forum for current work in this area, bringing
>together the leading social scientists, computer
>scientists, physicists and policy specialists to
>discuss these exciting developments.
>
>Contributions to the workshop are invited on the topics of:
>
>* Approaches to modeling using complex adaptive systems
>* Agent-based modeling of urban development and change
>* Modeling residential mobility and residential segregation
>* Modeling political divisions and coalition formation in cities
>* Modeling cultural divisions and the
>construction of urban categories and distinctions
>* The use of social simulations in
>understanding cities and influencing policy
>* The roles of stakeholders in urban simulations
>* Tools for computational modeling of
>cities (e.g. combining MAS and GIS)
>* Visualizing urban development
>* Empirical evaluations of simulation models
>
>Contributors should submit a abstract of the
>work that they wish to present, of about 2-3000
>words, by 1 December 2004. Authors of accepted
>abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper
>(4 -7000 words) by 1 February 2005. A selection
>of the papers will be published in a special
>section of the Journal of Artificial Societies
>and Social Simulation.
>
>The workshop will be held at the University of
>Surrey, in Guildford, UK. Guildford is a market
>town in the Green Belt surrounding London and is
>located about 35 minutes by train from central
>London and within easy reach of London's
>Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
>
>As a consequence of support from the European
>Commission's EXYSTENCE Network of Excellence and
>the University of Surrey, we are able to offer
>contributors of accepted papers free
>registration, meals and a grant towards their
>travel costs. Partial support may also be
>available for other attendees.
>
>Registration, accommodation in en-suite rooms
>and all meals (midday meal, dinner on 7th;
>breakfast and mid-day meal on 8th April) is £150
>(equivalent to about US$ 275 or ¤230).
>The workshop is organized by: Elizabeth Bruch,
>UCLA, USA and Nigel Gilbert, University of
>Surrey, UK.
>Abstracts should be sent to Nigel Gilbert
>(n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk) by 1 December 2004,
>as anonymous PDF files attached to an email
>including full contact details.
>
>Requests for participation and financial support
>should be sent to the same address by the same
>date.
>
>For further details see: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ias/musd.htm
>
>Program committee:
>
>Itzak Benenson (Tel Aviv)
>Elizabeth Bruch (UCLA)
>Nigel Gilbert (Surrey)
>David O'Sullivan (Auckland)
>Nicolaas Vriend (Queen Mary College, London)
>Paul Waddell (Washington)
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Professor Nigel Gilbert, Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
> Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>
> Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS)
> Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
> Tel:+44 1483 689173 N.Gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk
> <http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>
>
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