REMINDER Modeling Urban Social Dynamics

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John Sterman
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REMINDER Modeling Urban Social Dynamics

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>This is a reminder that about this forthcoming workshop.
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>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.
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>Contributions to the workshop are invited on the topics of:
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>* 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).
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>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
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>Program committee:
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>Itzak Benenson (Tel Aviv)
>Elizabeth Bruch (UCLA)
>Nigel Gilbert (Surrey)
>David O'Sullivan (Auckland)
>Nicolaas Vriend (Queen Mary College, London)
>Paul Waddell (Washington)
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