ESHIA/WEHIA 2009
14th International Conference on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
http://www.eshia2009.org/
June 18-20 2009
Sponsored by: ESHIA - Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
Hosted By: Center for Complexity Research, Department of Systems Science, School of Management, Beijing Normal University
Supported by: National Natural Science Foundation of China,
School of Management, Beijing Normal University

The 14th ESHIA/WEHIA will be held in China on June 18-20, 2009. The Organizing Committee cordially invites you to take part in the conference. We welcome papers dealing with computational and mathematical representations of economic and social processes in which the role of individual agents is explicit. We expect to have both methodological sessions and domain-specific ones.

Topics of interest include:

Agent-based modeling
Artificial financial market models
Automata theoretic models of economic and social processes
Computational game theory
Economic processes in social networks
Econophysics
Emergent macroeconomics
Firm birth and death models
Multi-agent models of organizations
Network models
Opinion dynamics
Social norm emergence
Spatial agent models
Spontaneous order/self-organization in economics
Technology innovation, adoption and diffusion
Urban systems as complex adaptive systems

Conference Honorary Chairs:
• Mauro Gallegati (Università Politecnica delle Marche , Italy)
• H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)

Program Co-Chairs:
• Shu-Heng Chen ?National Chengchi University, Taibei?
• Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
• Honggang Li ?Beijing Normal University, China?

Scientific Committee?(Some are to be confirmed)
• Peter Allen (Cranfield University, United Kingdom)
• Robert Axtell (George Mason University, USA)
• Yaneer Bar-Yam (New England Complex Systems Institute, USA)
• Bikas K. Chakrabarti (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India)
• Ping Chen (Peking University, China)
• Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University, Taibei)
• Giorgio Fagiolo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• Fukang Fang (Beijing Normal University, China)
• David Feldman (College of the Atlantic, USA)
• Mauro Gallegati (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
• David Green (Monash University, Australia, Australia)
• Tony He (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
• Janusz Ho?yst (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Jasmina Arifovic (Simon Fraser University?Canada)
• Taisei Kaizoji (International Christian University, Japan)
• Thomas Lux (University of Kiel, Germany)
• Joseph L. McCauley (University of Houston, USA)
• Robert Marks (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Matteo Marsili (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
• Bill Meckelvay (The Anderson School at UCLA, USA)
• Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
• Denis Phan (Universit de Rennes 1, France)
• Peter Richmond (Trinity College, Ireland)
• Bertrand Roehner (University of Paris 7, France)
• Barkley Rosser (James Madison University, USA)
• H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)
• Shyam Sunder (Yale University, USA)
• Binghong Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
• Shouyang Wang (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
• Chris Wood (Santa Fe Institute, USA)
• Yi-Cheng Zhang (Fribourg University, Switzerland)

Keynote Speakers:
• Professor Mauro Gallegati, Dipartimento di Economia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
• Professor Susumu Yamakage, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Professor Yi-Cheng Zhang, Fribourg University, Switzerland

Some Confirmed Participants
• H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA)
• Tony He (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
• Janusz Ho?yst (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
• Shu-Heng Chen ?National Chengchi University, Taibei?
• Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)

Conference schedule
Important days:
The applicants should submit papers or abstracts through website http://www.eshia2009.org/ or via E-mail: [email protected], also welcome any queries. Dates are as follows:
5 May 2009: abstracts due
10 May 2009: acceptances announced
Accepted papers would have at least one author to attend the conference; otherwise, these papers will not be considered in the program. The best papers will be published in the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.
15 May 2009: program announced, and payment due
18 June 2009: conference kicks off
20 June 2009: conference closing

Conference Format:
Conference language is English. Typically, authors have 20 minutes to present their papers with another 10 minutes for questions and answers. They are encouraged to use slides to ease and enhance mutual understanding across the language barrier. Sessions are 90-120 minutes long and are organized to cover 3 to 4 highly related papers. You may register to attend the full conference without presenting. The conference format is subject to change.

Conference venue
The conference venue is the Yingdong Lecture Hall of Beijing Normal University. All participants will stay in the hotels on or near the campus.

Conference Cost and Payment:
Once your proposal is accepted you will be invited to submit your registration fee.

The fee paid before 15 May 2009 by wire transfer or credit card (will be available soon):
o 2000 RMB Yuan (300 $) for university participants,
o 3000 RMB Yuan (450 $) for business sector participants.
The fee for additional paper is 1000 RMB Yuan (150 $).
The fee covers admission to Conference sessions, conference materials, lunches, coffee breaks, conference dinner, conference proceedings and one-year membership fee of ESHIA (75 ?, including annual subscription of Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination).
The fee will be raised 500 RMB Yuan (60 $ )after 15May 2009.The fee paid on site only can be in cash, no credit or debit cards allowed:

Financial support
A limited financial support will be available in a form of reduced conference fee. Participants needing such a support should send a letter of request to Organizing Committee before 15 May 2009.

Local Organizing Committee:
Co-chairs: Shu-Heng Chen, Zengru Di
Ying Fan, Zhangang Han, Handong Li, Honggang Li, Yougui Wang, Jiang Zhang