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Workshop organizers: 

Loïs Vanhée, Umeå University, Sweden

Melania Borit, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Bianca Luque Capellas, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Models of human decision (MOODs) are a central component of agent-based social simulation (ABSS) that raises a variety of open ended questions investigated by the ABSS community as well as by  connected ones (e.g., affective computing, intelligent virtual agents). While MOODs design and integration within ABSS are sometimes said to intersect “art and science”, few arenas are available for discussing practical insights based on experience or joint interests and aspects on which members of our community could collaborate.

This workshop is meant to create such an arena. After a brief introduction on recent developments in the science and community tied to MOOD (the SIG-MOOD ESSA special interest group), the workshop will be organized as a networking space for facilitating exchanges among participants on concrete MOODs content (what do you model), methods (how do you model), and applications (what do you model for). At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to identify who their research relates to in the community, as well as collective interests and needs they can contribute to.