0900: OPENING: Rosaria Conte

0910: STATE OF THE ART (CHAIR: JIM DORAN):

Nigel Gilbert: Simulation as a methodological tool for the social sciences

0940

Social Simulation and Agent Technology I (CHAIR: GERARD WEISBUCH)

• Doran: In what circumstances is de-centralisation a good strategy for sustainable resource management ?
• van Eck: Modelling Societies of Agents: from Conceptual Specification to Experimentation
• Eymann: Simulating markets as complex, dynamic systems

1100

Social Simulation and Agent Technology II (CHAIR: MAGNUS BOMAN)

• Drogoul and Picault: Lessons of social simulation for agent technology
• Aylett and Ballin: Emergence in social and computer science
• Bouron: Simulating emergent behavior in electronic commerce

1400

Modelling Agents I (CHAIR: ANDREW JONES)

• Treur: Simulation with Deliberate Normative BDI-like Agents
• Paolucci, Castelfranchi, Conte: Norms in MAS systems
• Coelho: The balance of motives in agent interactions
• Verhagen: Norms, autonomy and leadership

Discussion

1600

Modelling Agents II (CHAIR: MAREK SARGOT)
• Sartor: Agents in legal argumentation
• Popp: Agent-based models in understanding diffusion of innovations in heterogeneous populations.
• Mayoh: Do we need to model individuals' emotions and motivation?
• Werk: Emotional Intelligence in DAI

0900: LOOKING FORWARD (CHAIR: ROSARIA CONTE)

Bruce Edmonds: Towards a Science of Social Agency

Modelling Groups and Institutions (CHAIR: FRANK DIGNUM)

• Weisbuch: Institutions and environmental issues
• Reger, Schmidt: Modelling real groups: formation, behaviour and disintegration
• Jones: Organisational behaviour and interaction: rights, authorisation, delegation
• Sargot: Organised agent interaction: duty, power, responsibility

1100

Modelling Environments, Tools and Infrastructures  (CHAIR: NIGEL GILBERT)

• Edmonds, Moss: SDML
• Troitzsch:: MASSIF
• Burse: Software engineering considerations
• Bertels: Common libraries, benchmarks

1400

Applications (CHAIR: HELDER COELHO)

• Pahl-Wostl, Downing and Moss: Agent-based policy analysis: Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
• Davidsson: ISES: simulating effects of value-added services in the energy sector
• Bousquet:: Environment, spatial economy and real societies
• Imhof : Traffic simulation

1600: PANEL DISCUSSION(CHAIR: SCOTT MOSS): Key Issues and Research Directions for Agent Based Social Simulation.

1715: ISSUES FOR THE NEXT ABSS MEETING

1730: End of the Meeting