Topics
The topics include, but are not limited to:
1) Formal Theories on Agent-based Approaches
- Theories on rationality, intention, and emotion
- Social behaviors, social action, and social interaction
- Mathematical organization theory
2) Computational Economics and Organization
- Theory
- Agent-based computational economics and finance
- Computational organization theory
3) Modeling, Simulation and Validation Techniques
- Toolkits and methods for agent-based simulation
- Large scale social simulation
- Validation and verification of simulation results and simulation systems
4) Gaming Simulation
- Gaming simulation
- Participatory simulation
- Hybridization of agent-based simulation and gaming simulation
5) Collective Intelligence
- Collective decision and behaviors
- Emergent intelligence
- Social intelligence
6) Application of Agent-based Modeling
- Organization and industrial design
- Service sciences
- Medical and insurance systems
- Public policies
- Spatial modeling and pedestrian modeling
- Innovation diffusion and management
- Market dynamics and consumer behavior
- Social networks and their dynamics
- Prevention of disasters, epidemic diseases and finance collapse
7) Conceptual Model and Methodologies
- Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach
- Philosophical issues of agent-based modeling