AMPLE2011: 1st Workshop on Agent-based Modeling for Policy Engineering

 http://ample2011.tudelft.nl/

 Co-located with AAMAS@2011

 Workshop Goals

 The goal of AMPLE is to connect agent and artificial society research on the one hand, with policy making, institutional analysis and tools like system dynamics and gaming on the other. The combination could have benefits for the further enrichment of agent–based modeling and simulation. By gathering these different perspectives, we aim to explore how agent-research can be used or improved to assist with policy making in the social sciences.

TOPICS

Topics of particular interest for AMPLE include, but are not limited to:

Policy making: (tools and methods for) analysis, simulation, evaluation

Agent societies: design and simulation

Formal methods for specifying policies in coordination and organizational structures;

Models for verification, validation and visualization of simulations for policy making

Integration of normative and social aspects: formal aspects and practical issues

Agent-based models for decision making:

Social networks: influence in decision making; representation; models for simulation

Culture and social norms: influence in decision making; representation; models for simulation

Design for values in policy making

Comparison between System Dynamics and Agent-based modeling

Gaming: role in policy analysis; relation to simulation



Important Dates:

Paper Submission           30 January 2011

Notification        27 February , 2011

Camera-ready submission          13 March, 2011

AMPLE WORKSHOP       2 or 3 May, 2011



Instruction For Authors

Because the post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS, the preliminary proceedings will follow the corresponding format. The author instructions for both Word and LaTeX are available at the Springer website (here). The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed 15 pages in this format. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the work.

For submission of papers, please use: easychair