General information
SSC 2021 is the 16th annual Social Simulation Conference, and will take place from 20th to 24th September 2021 at the Cracow University of Economics, Poland. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social simulation and computational social science in Europe and elsewhere. If the current pandemic does not allow for an on-site conference, it will be held online.
This year’s special theme will be “Social Simulation in Post-Pandemic times”, focused not only on questions raised by the current pandemic but also on future challenges related to economic recovery, such as localisation, globalization, inequality, sustainable growth and social changes induced by progressive digitalisation, data availability and artificial intelligence.
Submissions
SSC 2021 seeks submissions for the following:
Extended Abstracts (3-4 pages; short oral presentations)
Full Papers (max. 12 pages; long oral presentations)
Poster abstracts (300-500 words)
All submissions have to be formatted using the LNCS templates, which can be found at:
Submissions will be handled through EasyChair — the link will be provided subsequently.
Important dates
Poster Abstract, Extended Abstract, Full Paper — Submission Deadline: 30 April 2021
Poster Abstract, Extended Abstract, Full Paper — Notification of Acceptance: 31 May 2021
Poster Abstract, Extended Abstract, Full Paper — Final Version Submission: 30 June 2021
Specific information
SSC 2021 seeks high-quality submissions addressing original research in the domain of social simulation and computational social science. All work must be original, i.e. must not have appeared in conference proceedings, books or journals, and must not be under review for other archival conferences, books or journals.
All accepted full papers will be considered for publication in the proceedings (the Organizing Committee is in contact with Springer), unless the author(s) choose(s) otherwise. Additionally, a number of full papers will be invited to submit revised versions to JASSS.
Posters will be displayed over the entire conference period and will be presented during a dedicated session.
At least one of the authors of each submission is required to register, attend, and present the poster/paper at the conference.
The conference topics include, but are not limited to, the list at the bottom of this CfP. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided that they lie within the domain of Social Simulation.
ESSA@work
ESSA@work stands for discussing work-in-progress. It is a workshop concept where any modeller can receive and give support on simulation work-in-progress while being part of a self-organising group. ESSA@work aims to create space for in-depth discussions and to enable participants to gain concrete answers to their questions.
Submit either a full paper or an extended abstract to the conference. Submissions can be flagged to be presented as ESSA@work during the submission stage of your conference contribution (extended abstract or paper). In this case, the authors will be prompted with a request to provide an additional paragraph (250 words) detailing a problem or specific question that the participant would like to discuss in the ESSA@work session, in addition to information on background and skills.
If you would like to submit a paper or abstract for ESSA@work, please fill out this application form: link will be provided later
Special Tracks
Special tracks will be held in parallel during the conference. A special track consists of a group of papers in a sub-area of the larger domain of social simulation and computational social science. All papers will go through a reviewing process on EasyChair and will be assigned to special tracks if there is a match. A successful special track will consist of at least 2-3 extended abstracts and/or full papers.
We would like to invite participants interested in organizing a dedicated special track to send us a proposal by 28th February 2021. Proposals should include the title of the workshop and a 150-word description of the special track topic.
Workshops
Workshops are aimed at offering a wide perspective on social simulation by means of a “hands-on” approach. The topic of the workshop can be: a) disciplinary (thematic, e.g. sustainability, or methodological, e.g. introduction to Repast); b) career development (e.g. how to succeed in publishing in the social simulation domain).
We would like to invite participants interested in organizing a dedicated workshop to send us a proposal by 28th February 2021. Proposals should include the title of the workshop and a 150-word description of the workshop topic.
Others
In addition to posters, presentations of papers, workshops, and round tables, SSC 2021 aims to include the following:
PhD colloquium
Invited talks
Allocation of awards: Best Student Paper, Best Poster
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Cracow in September 2021!
Local Organising Committee
Committee Chair: Marcin Czupryna (Cracow University of Economics) czuprynm@uek.krakow.pl
Committee Members:
Bogumił Kamiński (SGH – Warsaw School of Economics) bkamins@sgh.waw.pl
Marek Antosiewicz (SGH – Warsaw School of Economics) mantosi@sgh.waw.pl
Paweł Oleksy (Cracow University of Economics) oleksyp@uek.krakow.pl
Agnieszka Kluczewska (Cracow University of Economics) kluczewa@uek.krakow.pl
Programme Committee
To be constituted soon.
Contact
Local organising committee contact: ssc2024@uek.krakow.pl
List of Conference Topics
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications of agent-based modelling in social sciences
- Agent-based computational economics & finance
- Conflict resolution & cooperation
- Coupled human-natural systems
- Diffusion of innovations
- Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
- Epidemiology & pharma-economics
- Group decisions & collective behaviours
- Market design, mechanism design & auctions
- Privacy, safety & security
- Public policy & regulatory issues
- Resource management, environmental practices & policy
- Social emergence & evolution of institutions
- Social media and volunteered information
- Social networks and their dynamics
- Tools and methods for development of simulation models
- Advanced distributed computing
- Agent ontologies
- Agent-embodied Artificial Intelligence
- Model replication, verification & validation
- Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
- Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
- Techniques for visualizing, interpreting and analysing simulation outputs
- Coupling simulations and optimization methods
- Data analysis software for simulations
- Experiment design and data farming for simulations
- Simulation metamodels
- Statistical & data mining techniques for simulated data
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