The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from 25th to 29th August 2025 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social simulation in Europe and elsewhere. This year’s special theme is “Social simulation in a socio-technical context: embracing societies’ complexities.” A theme fitting to an engineering university that, through the faculty Technology, Policy and Management, bridges engineering to the many disciplines that are present in the ESSA community. Being open minded to other perspectives is in our DNA. In other words: we welcome you wholeheartedly to Delft!

Submissions Call:
SSC 2025 seeks high-quality submissions addressing original research in the domain of social simulation. All work must be original, i.e. must not have appeared in conference proceedings, books or journals, and must not be under review for other archival conferences, books or journals. All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the proceedings (Springer), unless the author(s) choose(s) otherwise. For formatting, see below.

• Long paper (10-12 pages, excluding references – long oral presentations, will be included in the post-proceedings)
• Short paper (6-9 pages, excluding references – short oral presentations, will be included in the post-proceedings)
• Extended abstract (3-4 pages, excluding references – short oral presentations, will not be included in the post-proceedings)
• Poster abstract (300-500 words, will not be included in the post-proceedings)
• Poster abstract, Extended Abstract, Long Paper and Short paper — submission deadline: 11th of April, 2025.