MABS 2013 Program

Monday, May 6 (afternoon)

1:30-3:30 – Session I

#12 Large-Scale Multi-Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Microblogging-based Online Social Network – Maira Gatti, Ana Paula Appel, Claudio Pinhanez, Cicero Dos Santos, Daniel Gribel, Paulo Cavalin and Samuel Barbosa – IBM Research, Brazil [PDF]

#9 An Agent-Based Approach to Dynamic Experience Management in Theme Parks – Shih-Fen Cheng, Larry Lin, Jiali Du, Hoong Chuin Lau and Pradeep Varakantham – Singapore Management University [PDF]

#24 Dynamic Identity Model for Agents – Joana Dimas and Rui Prada – Technical University of Lisbon [PDF]

3:30-4:00 coffee break

4:00-5:30 – Session II

#11 Dynamically Tracking the Real World in an Agent-Based Model – H. Van Dyke Parunak, S. Hugh Brooks, Sven A. Brueckner and Ravi Gupta – Soar Technology, Enkidu7 [PDF]

Roundtable panel discussion

Tuesday, May 7 (full day)

9:00-10:30 – Session III

#30 Opposites Repel: The Effect of Incorporating Repulsion on Opinion Dynamics in the Bounded Confidence Model – Chad Crawford, Logan Brooks and Sandip Sen – The University of Tulsa [PDF]

#10 Globalisation, regionalisation and behavioural responses of land use agents - Calum Brown, Dave Murray-Rust, Jasper van Vliet, Shah Jamal Alam, Peter H. Verburg and Mark Rounsevell – University of Edinburgh, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [PDF]

#3 Simulating the Expansion of Large-sized Farms in Rural Netherlands: A Land Exchange Model – Shah Jamal Alam, Martha Bakker, Eleni Karali, Mark Rounsevell – University of Edinburgh, Wageningen University [PDF]

10:30-11:00 coffee break

11:00-12:30 – Session IV

#17 Multi-Agent-Based Simulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth – Pablo Werlang, Michel Q. Fagundes, Diana Adamatti, Karina Machado, Andrea von Groll, Pedro E. A. Da Silva and Adriano Velasque Werhli – FURG, Brazil [PDF]

Keynote address: Charles M. Macal Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago 'On Validating Multi-Agent System Applications' [Talk]

12:30-1:30 lunch break

1:30-3:30 – Session V

#20 The MAELIA multi-agent platform for integrated assessment of low-water management issues – Benoit Gaudou, Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, Olivier Therond, Frédéric Amblard, Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Maud Balestrat, Marie-Hélène Charron-Moirez, Etienne Gondet, Yi Hong, Thomas Louail, Eunate Mayor, David Panzoli, Sabine Sauvage, José-Miguel Sanchez-Perez, Patrick Taillandier, Nguyen Van Bai, Maroussia Vavasseur and Pierre Mazzega – Université de Toulouse, INRA UMR AGIR, CNRS, University of Rouen

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#15 Towards Simulating the Impact of Culture on Organizations – Loïs Vanhée, Frank Dignum and Jacques Ferber – LIRMM, Utrecht Universiteit [PDF]

#26 Who Creates the Housing Bubble? An Agent-Based Study – Jiaqi Ge – Iowa State University [PDF]

3:30-4:00 coffee break

4:00-5:30 – Session VI

#18 A Simple Complete Conservative Sustainable Agent-Based Model Economy: Some Hypotheses – Garvin Boyle [PDF]

#14 Verification and Validation of Agent-Based Simulations using Approximate Model Checking – Benjamin Herd, Simon Miles, Peter Mcburney and Michael Luck – King's College London [PDF]

#23 Measuring and Validating Social Network Simulations – S.M. Ali Abbas, Shah Alam and Bruce Edmonds – Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Edinburgh [PDF]