NAACSOS Conference 2004

June 27 - 29, 2004, Pittsburgh PA
North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science
http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/

CALL FOR PAPERS: NAACSOS Due March 31, 2004

This conference provides an international forum for interdisciplinary research that combines computation, organizations and society. The goal is to advance the state of science in formal reasoning, analysis, and system building drawing on and encouraging advances in areas at the confluence of social networks, artificial intelligence, complexity, machine learning, sociology, business, political science, economics, and operations research. Such research will lead to the development of new theories that explain and predict the behavior of complex adaptive systems, new computational models and technologies that are responsible to society, business, policy, and law, new methods for integrating data, computational models, analysis and visualization techniques.

Of particular interest is recent work in any of the following areas:

  1. Computational theorizing about complex socio-cognitive-technical systems, including organizations, commerce, markets, societies, institutions, privacy issues and technology enhanced environments.
  2. New computational, especially agent based, multi-agent based, cognitive, or social network based models for studying, reasoning about, or providing policy guidance with respect to socio-cognitive-technological systems, social-psychological, social, organizational, political or technological systems.
  3. Advances in grounding, tuning, and validating computational models, particularly multi-agent models, in the social and organizational sciences, including new techniques generalizable across many models, explainable artificial intelligence, and new empirical tests of specific models.
  4. Papers presenting, validating, or applying network models or computational techniques are strongly encouraged. In addition, papers that take any of these foci are encouraged:
  5. Applications work using computational models.
  6. Theoretical research using computational models on fundamental principles of social behavior such as coordination, cooperation, evolution, and destabilization are welcome.
  7. Computational or network modeling related to corporate, military or intelligence issues, particularly papers on counter-terrorism.
  8. Computational social, organizational, or economic science.
  9. New algorithmsfor or dynamic metrics for network or relational data.
  10. Complex social or organizational systems models.
  11. Comparing, contrasting and docking computational models - new approaches and/or actual comparisons.
  12. Teams, organizations, and swarms of intelligent agents.
  13. Computational statistics for networks.
  14. Automated organizational design tools.
  15. Automated data collection tools for use with computational models.
  16. Ethical use of, privacy issues related to, relational and computational data.
  17. Infrastructure for large scale multi-agent simulation.
  18. Coordination, social cognition, or group performance.
  19. Social science models using grid based computing or super computers.

Dates:
Papers for this conference take the form of extended abstracts. They are due by May 10, 2004. All Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the conference abstract submission form.

Direct Questions on:

Content, sessions and demos:
   Kathleen M. Carley
   1-412-268-6016
   kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu
Local on-scene logistics:
   Monika DeReno
   1-412-268-3163
   mdereno@cs.cmu.edu
Website, online paper submission:
   Jana Diesner
   1-412-268-5866
   jdiesner@andrew.cmu.edu

Publication:
All accepted papers (2-4 page max) will appear in the official conference proceedings, provided the presenter pre-registers for the conference. Papers submitted by graduate students will be reviewed for the student paper competition. The paper winning this award will be published in CMOT. Non grad student papers will be reviewed for a best paper. The paper winning this award will be published in CMOT. The Keynote paper will be published in CMOT.

Costs:

  • 150-student
  • 300-faculty
  • 400-industry

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