CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES
June 22-23, 2006 , Notre Dame Indiana (USA)
The North American Society for Computational Social & Organizational Sciences is pleased to announce its 14th annual conference and to invite individual paper submissions and proposals for panels consisting of multiple presentations focused around a theme. The NAACSOS annual meetings have become the premier event for the presentation of work related to computational modeling of a range of social and organizational processes. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the work at the confluence of social networks, complexity, and multiagent systems, the past conferences have attracted international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines including social sciences such as sociology, economics, and political science; computational sciences such as computer science, informatics, and mathematics; and management science who share the goal of advancing the state of science in formal reasoning, analysis, and system building. Such research has the potential to lead to the development of new theories that describe, explain, and predict the behavior of complex adaptive systems, and new methods for integrating data, computational models, and analysis and visualization techniques. The theme of this year’s conference will be the role of computational models in connecting nested macro and micro levels and showing how each level affects the others. We particularly encourage papers that directly address these topics but submissions addressing all aspects of computational modeling of social and organizational processes are welcome.
This includes:
- Computational theorizing about complex socio-cognitive-technical systems, including organizations, commerce, markets, societies, institutions, privacy issues and technology enhanced environments
- New computational, especially agent-based, multi-agent, cognitive, or social network-based models for studying, reasoning about, or providing policy guidance with respect to socio-cognitive-technological, social-psychological, interactional, social, organizational, political, or technological systems
- Papers presenting, validating, or applying network models or computational techniques are strongly encouraged
- Applications work using computational models
- Theoretical research using computational models on fundamental principles of social action and interaction, such as coordination, cooperation, hierarchy, evolution, and destabilization
- Computational or network modeling related to corporate, military or intelligence issues, including papers on counter-terrorism
- Computational social, organizational, or economic science
- New algorithms for or dynamic metrics of interaction, network or relational data
- Complex social or organizational systems models
- Teams, organizations, and swarms of intelligent agents
- Computational statistics for networks
- Automated organizational design tools
- Automated data collection tools for use with computational models
- Ethical use of, and privacy issues related to, social, relational and computational data
- Infrastructure for large scale multi-agent simulation
- Coordination, social cognition, or group performance
- Social science models using grid-based computing or super computers
- Comparison, contrast and docking of computational models -new approaches and/or actual comparisons
- Advances in grounding, tuning, and validating computational models, including new techniques that can be generalized across many models, and new empirical tests of specific models
- Methods for calibrating, assessing, verifying and validating agent-based models and simulations.
Important Dates:
- Paper submissions are due by May 8, 2006. All papers must be submitted electronically through the conference submission form.
- Acceptance decisions will be provided by May 12, 2006.
- Camera ready copy is due May 25, 2006.
- The deadline for early registration is May 20, 2006.
- The conference is June 22-23, 2006.
- Preconference tutorials June 21 (evening)
Contacts for Further Information:
Content, sessions and demos:
- M. Afzal Upal (Program Co-chair), 419-530-8145 [mail]
- Michael J. North (Program Co-chair), 630-252-6234 [mail]
Local on-scene logistics:
- Greg Madey (Conference and Local Arrangements Chair), 574-631-8752 [mail]
Website, online paper submission:
- George Korsnick (Webmaster), 412-268-5866 [mail]
Submission Format:
Formats (Word or PDF preferred):
- Full Papers(4-6 pages)
- Panels (2-4 page description, including panelists names, affiliations and a 100-200 word abstract for each presentation)
- Posters (200-300 word summary)
- Software Demos (200-300 word summary)
Each submission must be in format specified on the conference web site.
All accepted papers will be published in the official conference proceedings, provided the presenter pre-registers for the conference.
Student Paper Competition: Papers submitted by graduate students will be reviewed for the best student paper competition. Papers submitted by graduate students for this competition should be identified as such and will be reviewed for the best student paper competition. The student paper winning this award will be published in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT).
General Paper Competition: Other papers will be reviewed for a best paper award. The extended version of the best paper will also be published in CMOT along with keynote papers.
Location:
The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) in the McKenna Hall Conference Center.
Travel, Hotel, and Registration:
Travel directions, hotel accommodations, registration, and program are posted at the conference web site.