We were very pleased to have papers for two sessions at the Social Simulation Conference 2017 in Dublin (where we have had mostly good weather so far!). The papers are:

• The Venezuelan System of Potato Production: a simulation model to understand roots of deficiencies — Oswaldo Terán, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Ravi Rojas, and Liccia Romero
• Qualitative Data in the Service of Model Building — the Case of Structural Shirking — Patrycja Antosz and Harko Verhagen
• A simulation model for assessing social empowerment: the case of the Southern Rural
  Territory of Sergipe, Brazil — Marcos A. S. d. Silva and Pascal Roggero

Extended abstracts available within: https://sim2017.mira.cx/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/12/ESSA@Work-1.zip

• An Empirically Informed Practice-centric Approach to Model Demand Response in Households — Kavin Narasimhan, Nigel Gilbert and Aimie Hope
• WHETHER TO PROTEST. A computational analysis of mobilization for the Arab
  Spring — Stephanie Dornschneider
• Ontological politics in a world of political ontologies — Lia ní Aodha.

Extended abstracts available within: https://sim2017.mira.cx/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/12/ESSA@Work-2.zip

Enjoy!