With the theme ‘Global Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability’, the Royal Geographic Society (RGS)- IGB Annual International Conference’s registrations are open until 5th May, 2006. The event will take place in Kensington Gore, London, from 30th August to 1st September, 2006.
The Society is promoting, at the conference, a Social Simulation Session, which aims to bring together researchers using or developing tools for social simulation that provides new insights into complex geographical systems. The RGS is inviting researchers to submit abstracts until 31st January.
Interest in social simulation has been growing at a rapid pace in the last
decade. The potential for researchers to model and understand these systems is
unparalleled with increases in both computing power, and data capture and
storage. A major influence on the development of social simulation has been
through advances in artificial intelligence techniques such as cellular
automata, agent-based modelling and microsimulation.
The organisation welcomes papers on:
• Tools for modelling social simulation
• Artificial social systems
• Self-organising systems and emergent organisation
• Modelling complexity in social simulations
• Agent models and architecture
• Verification and testing
• Social interaction models
Important Dates:
Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 1st April 2006
Early Registration: 5th May 2006
Full submission guidelines can be found at http://www.rgs.org/AC2006 .
For further information, call Alison Heppenstall at a.j.heppenstall@leeds.ac.uk