Artificial Economics

Annual Meeting in Innsbruck, Austria
12./ 13. September 2008


Call for Papers Announcement

Call for Papers in pdf-format

We invite you to submit your paper to The Artificial Economics Symposium. Taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 12 and 13, 2008, this two-day event will offer presentations of papers selected by the program committee as well as keynote sessions by specially invited speakers. Exchanges and discussions will have a large space in the final program.

Aims and Scope of the Symposium:

The Symposium is devoted to recent scientific advances in the field of Agent-Based Computational Economics, but it is also opened to methodological surveys.
The main aims of the event are:

  • To facilitate the meeting of people and ideas from the communities of social sciences (mainly economics, finance, and management) and computer science, to build a structured multi-disciplinary approach.
  • To present agent-based computational methodologies and tools with application to social sciences.
  • To present uses, needs, and constraints of agent-based models employed by social scientists to computer scientists.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Market Dynamics
  • Agent-Based Macroeconomics
  • Discrete Choice Models in Economics and Management Sciences
  • Emergence and Dynamics of Norms and Conventions
  • Financial Market and Organization Models (Stock Price Dynamics, Herding in Financial Markets)
  • Epistemology and Agent-Based Methodological Issues
  • Dynamics of Social and Economic Networks
  • Complexity and Markets

Important Dates:

Deadline for the submission of papers (short version, 5 pages): February 15th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 4th, 2008
Deadline for final paper (produced in LATEX): May 9th 2008.

Submission and Proceedings:

A short, anonymous version of the paper presenting issues addressed, conclusions and literature, must be submitted, before February 15th, 2008, in acrobat (pdf) format on this website. Short versions of the paper must be 5 pagesPlease upload an anonymous version without any author information to guarantee a double-blind review. Authors are encouraged to meet the Springer typesetting standards, to be found here.

Papers will be blindly peer reviewed. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer's Series volume Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems.

Event Form:
The symposium will last two days and will take place in Innsbruck, Austria. It will offer presentations of papers selected by the program committee as well as special invited keynote sessions. Exchanges and discussions will have a large space in the final program.

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