CALL FOR PAPERS: iEMSs special session on “Spatial agent-based models for socio-ecological systems”

The biannual meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software society (iEMSs) will take place in Ottawa, Canada on July 5 - 8 2010. The theme of the conference is “Modelling for Environment’s Sake” ? http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/

The special session on agent-based modeling is co-sponsored by the Aberdeen Global Land Project Nodal Office on Integration and Modelling

Session description: Coupled socio-ecological systems are complex and operate on a variety of scales. Agent-based modeling is widely used to explore how aggregated phenomena emerge from interactions of different actors and processes at the micro level. These cross-scale interactions are especially important in spatial socio-ecological systems where heterogeneous human behavior changes the spatial environment. Agent-based techniques allow modeling of these interactions and feedbacks.
This session invites papers demonstrating application of agent-based modeling to spatial socio-ecological research questions related to the impacts of heterogeneous human behavior on the environment and ecosystem services. Presentations might address topics such as: coupling of socio-economic and biophysical models, adding a behavioral component to land-use models, exploring different policy incentives for land managers, environmental impacts of different land management
behaviors, finding appropriate scale of modeling human behavior and environmental processes in agent-based models, and building empirical agent-based models.

Organizers: Dawn C. Parker (University of Waterloo, Canada) and
Tatiana Filatova (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

Short paper are requested from authors of accepted abstracts.
Following review, accepted papers from conference sessions will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Important dates:
Abstracts submission deadline November 27, 2009
Acceptance of abstracts December 31, 2009
Submission of full papers for review March 19, 2010