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Co-located with the 7th
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
News [10th April, 2008] Papers for pre-proceedings are now available on-line and José Castro Caldas is MABS' invited speaker, see the workshop program. [10th March, 2008] Workshop program was published.
[25th February, 2008] For authors of
accepted papers, submit a revised paper by: Also, you should register at the conference, please see: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/registration.html [25th February, 2008] Due to the outstanding number of submissions, MABS was extended from a full day workshop to a 1½ day workshop! The extra session of MABS will run on Tuesday. [24th February, 2008] The reviewing process is over. MABS received 44 submissions from 14 countries. Sixteen papers were accepted by the program committee, with an acceptance rate near 35%. See the accepted papers. [1st February, 2008] Submission to MABS is closed. We have received 41 full paper submissions from 14 countries. [31st January, 2008] For authors who have not sent the final paper yet: the deadline must be strict, we are receiving a considerable number of papers and the time for the reviewing process is short, so we ask you to send us the paper no later than today (according to your local time is fine [before 1st February 10h00 GMT is also OK]). The meeting
of researchers from MAS engineering and the
social/economic/organizational sciences is extensively recognized for
its role in cross-fertilization, and has undoubtedly been
an important source of inspiration for the body of
knowledge that has been produced in the MAS area.
Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) is a vibrant inter-disciplinary area
which brings together researchers within the agent-based social simulation
community (ABSS) and the Multiagent Systems community (MAS). The focus of ABSS
is on simulating and synthesising social behaviours in order to understand real
social systems via the development and testing of new concepts. The focus of MAS
is on the solution of hard engineering problems related to the construction,
deployment and efficient operation of multiagent systems. The
MABS workshop series continues to pursue its goal to bring
together researchers interested in MAS engineering,
with researchers focused on finding efficient
solutions to modelling complex social systems, in such
areas as economics, management, and organizational and
social sciences in general. In all of these areas, agent
theories, metaphors, models, analysis, experimental designs,
empirical studies, and methodological principles, all
converge into simulation as a way of achieving
explanations and predictions, exploring and testing
of hypotheses, better designs and systems.
Simulation methodologies Given the relatively mature stage of simulation both in MAS engineering and the social/economic sciences, the bulk of material produced for educational and pedagogical goals is becoming quite significant. On the other hand, the topic of using simulation itself for educational purposes is becoming a consolidated area, for which the agent paradigm provides obvious insights and techniques. The potential for cross-fertilization between researchers in MAS engineering and social/economic scientists may well be of significant interest, insofar as simulation provides opportunities for students to practice their theoretical knowledge. In effect, one major benefit of work with simulation is that students are able to conduct experiments with artificial agents, and gain practical experience and convey knowledge about economic/social processes, that would be difficult to isolate in natural agents. Previous MABS workshops This workshop is the ninth of the MABS series. From 1998 to 2000, the workshop was organized every two years, in association with ICMAS. Since 2002, the workshop has become an annual event, always associated with AAMAS (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and now 2008). Its scientific focus lies in the confluence of multi-agent systems and the social sciences, with a strong applicational/empirical vein, and its emphasis stresses on (i) using social theories as an inspiration for new frameworks and developments in multi-agent systems; and (ii) exploratory agent-based simulation as a principled way of undertaking scientific research in the social, economic and organisational sciences. The impact of the Multi-Agent-Based book series has been quite significant, ranked 705 among all publications in computer science available from DBLP (of which there are above 1200), as measured for example by databases such as citeseer (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html). This excellent level of quality has been recognised since the inception of the meeting, and its proceedings have always been published by Springer-Verlag, as the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Series. Further details of the previous workshops can be found at http://www.pcs.usp.br/~mabs. Electronic abstracts
due: January 28, 2008 All accepted papers will be printed in the AAMAS workshop proceedings. In addition, following the tradition of the previous MABS workshops, we intend to publish revised and extended versions of the accepted papers in Springer-Verlag's Multi-Agent-Based Simulation book series, LNAI, with the title “Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX, 9th International Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2008, Revised Papers” (pending confirmation). The revised versions must take into account the discussion held during the workshop, hence, only those papers that are presented during the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume. The preliminary schedule for the post-proceedings process is the following: Second
reviewing: September, 2008 1. A provisional abstract of
the paper should be e-mailed to Nuno David
by the 28th of January 2008. Acceptance Standards All submissions will go through a peer review process, with two or three independent PC members reviewing each submission. Only those deemed to be 1) relevant to the workshop's aims, 2) presenting original work, and 3) of good quality and clarity will be accepted. Following the workshop, participants will be required to revise their papers, which will undergo a second review process before publication in the post-proceedings.
Nuno David (Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE,
Portugal)
Frédéric Amblard
(University of Toulouse, France) Adolfo López Paredes (INSISOC, Valladolid, Spain) Workshop Web Page |
