The topics include, but are not limited to:

Tools and methods:

• Programming computational frameworks
• Simulation experiment software
• Role playing games and social simulation
• Social Simulation and Laboratory Experiments
• Socially inspired software applications (peer-to-peer, distributed trust etc.)
• Model replication and validation
• Social simulation and software design
• Advanced computing technologies (e.g. the grid) and social simulation.

Applications of Agent-based Modeling:

• Social Complexity
• Policy issues
• Emergence of social structures and norms
• Trust and norm dynamics, reputation
• Social conflict and cooperation
• Market dynamics and consumer behavior
• Integrated social/physical modeling for environmental policy
• Resource management and environnemental practices
• Social networks and their dynamics
• Information and opinion dynamics
• Computational Organization Theory
• Group decisions and collective behaviors
• Emergence and evolution of institutions
• Innovation diffusion
• Societal transitions

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