[ATHENA] MECS 2016 Annual Conference - "Agent Cultures and Zombielands. Fields, Fictions and Futures of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation"

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AGENT CULTURES AND ZOMBIELANDS.FIELDS, FICTIONS AND FUTURES OF AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION

 

The MECS 2016 An­nu­al Con­fe­rence «Agent Cul­tu­res and Zom­bie­lands» ex­plo­res the epis­te­mo­lo­gi­cal im­pact and the me­dia­tech­no­lo­gi­cal con­di­ti­ons of Agent-ba­sed Mo­de­ling and Si­mu­la­ti­on (ABM). To­day, ABM ran­ges from infrastructure models for pro­duc­tion se­quen­ces, ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­ve pro­ces­ses, wareh­ou­sing, trans­port and traf­fic, and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on net­works, to the simulation of social systems like ani­mal collec­tives, pe­de­stri­an mo­ti­on, ur­ban stu­dies, crowd ma­nage­ment, eva­cua­ti­on stu­dies, epi­de­mio­lo­gy, and fi­nan­ci­al mar­kets, up to in­te­gra­ti­ve Global Scale Agent Models. Agent-ba­sed Mo­de­ling and Si­mu­la­ti­on sha­re a pa­ra­digm of dis­tri­bu­ted con­trol among mul­ti­ple au­to­no­mous and life­li­ke agents. The rise of ABM im­plies a con­cep­ti­on and spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on of (ar­ti­fi­ci­al) so­cia­li­ty.

The MECS 2016 An­nu­al Con­fe­rence «Agent Cul­tu­res and Zom­bie­lands» will ex­ami­ne this par­ti­cu­lar di­men­si­on of so­cia­li­ty in ABM from a trans­di­sci­pli­na­ry per­spec­tive, con­vey­ing scho­lars from com­pu­ter sci­ence, so­ci­al sci­ence, me­dia stu­dies, and ex­perts from va­rious fiel­ds of ap­p­li­ca­ti­on. Ge­ne­ral ques­ti­ons touch on the ve­ri­si­mi­li­tu­de of ›life­li­ke‹ be­ha­vi­or. They ask about the con­cep­tu­al in­gre­dients of the so­cia­li­ty in so­ci­al si­mu­la­ti­ons. And they in­qui­re how so­ci­al si­mu­la­ti­ons, vice ver­sa, might have im­p­regna­ted so­cio­logi­cal and po­li­ti­cal no­ti­ons of ›the so­ci­al‹.

  CONFERENCE DATESTHURSDAY, JUNE 23RD – SATURDAY, JUNE 25TH, 2016

Conference Venue

Frei­raum Lüne­burgSalz­s­traße 1
21335 Lüne­burg - GermanyTel.: +49 (0) 4131 8201 750

E-Mail: info@frei­raum-lu­e­n­e­burg.de

Homepage: www.mecs.leuphana.de

REGISTRATIONFree and open to the public but registration is required.

Please register by sending an email to mecs AT leuphana.de

 

PROGRAM THURSDAY,  June 23RD 2016

14.30
Wel­co­me Re­cep­ti­on

15.00
Opening Re­marks
Claus Pias, Martin Warnke
In­tro­duc­tion
Sebastian Vehlken, Ricky Wichum

15.30
Eric Winsberg (Uni­ver­si­ty of Sou­thern Flo­ri­da)
A Tale of Two Methods

16.30
Get To­ge­ther / Ca­te­red

18.00Keyno­te
Robert Axtell (Ge­or­ge Ma­son Uni­ver­si­ty, Fair­fax, VA)
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20.00
Din­ner

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FRIDAY, June 24TH 2016

9.30
Rainer Hegselmann (Bay­reuth Uni­ver­si­ty)
Thomas Schelling and James M. Sakoda: How to Become an Unknown Pioneer?
10.30
Cof­fee Break
11.00
Franck Varenne (Uni­ver­si­ty of Rou­en/​CNRS Cent­re Na­tio­nal de la Re­cher­che Sci­en­ti­fi­que)
On Methodological Discretism
12.00
Judith Simon (IT Uni­ver­si­ty Copen­ha­gen)
Delegate it to the Fridge! Reverse Engineering of Desired Global Behaviour into Individual Behaviour within Mixed Societies

13.00
Lunch Break / Ca­te­red

14.30
Petra Gehring (TU Darm­stadt)
Drawn from Life: Power of a Paradigm

15.30
Alexander Galloway (New York Uni­ver­si­ty)
The Computational Decision

17.00Cof­fee Break

17.15Klaus G. Troitzsch (Uni­ver­si­ty of Ko­blenz-Land­au)
Can Agent-based Simulation Models Replicate Organized Crime?

18.15
Get To­ge­ther / Ca­te­red

19.00Keyno­te
Sara Y. Del Valle (Los Al­a­mos La­bo­ra­to­ry)
Agent-based Modeling Approaches for Simulating Infectious Diseases
20.30
Drinks & Din­ner

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SATURDAY, June 25TH 201610.00
Sven Opitz (Uni­ver­si­ty of Mar­burg)
Simulating the World: The Digital Enactment of Pandemics as a Mode of Global Self-Observation
11.00
Cof­fee Break
12.00
Christian Borch (Copen­ha­gen Busi­ness School)
Agent-Based Modeling and Algorithmic Finance: What ABM might teach Economic Sociology about Inter-Algorithmic Sociality

13.00
Hanno Pahl (Lud­wig-Ma­xi­mu­li­an-Uni­ver­si­ty München)
Agent-Based Modeling in Macroeconomics: Opportunities and Obstacles. Some Evidence from the Field.
14.00
Sebastian Vehlken, Ricky WichumClo­sing Re­marks