Call for Papers 

Social Sim'26 invites authors to submit papers about their work around social simulation . 

Submission Portal:  Coming Soon!

Key Dates:

• Submission Deadline:  June 23, 2026, AoE

• Accept/Reject Notification: July 24, 2026, AoE

• Camera Ready Deadline: July 31, 2026, AoE

• Workshop Date: October 9, 2026

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Simulation Evaluation and Fidelity: Empirical grounding, robustness, and methods to distinguish substantive social dynamics from prompting or model-bias artifacts

• Validation Against Real-World Data: Relating simulated outcomes to observational data; data-grounded simulations

• LLM-Based Agent Modeling: Architectures, scaling, and applied modeling of societal-scale phenomena

• Persona Modeling: Psychologically plausible, consistent, and faithful agent personas 

• Cultural Evolution: Development of norms, beliefs, and behaviors over time

• Information Diffusion: Modeling spread dynamics in simulated populations

• Human-AI Hybrid Simulations: Combining human participants and generative agents

• Simulation Interpretability: Understanding why simulated behaviors emerge

• Applications: Governance, platform design, and societal risk analysis

• Ethical, Societal, and Policy Implications: Responsibilities of deploying realistic simulations, including risks of misrepresenting identities or flattening heterogeneity
  
  

Submission Types:

We invite the three types of non-archival types of submissions:

• Regular Papers: Completed work (e.g., theoretical advances, empirical studies, or novel simulation methods. Up to 9 pages.

• Early-stage Papers: Preliminary findings, prototype systems, or position pieces. Up to 4 pages. 

• Demo Papers:  Interactive systems or tools, particularly those extending or running on Social Sandbox or similar frameworks. Up to 4 pages + demo. 

All submissions should include references (not counted toward the page limits) and follow COLM’s guidelines.  Accepted submissions will be posted on the website.

Questions:

For questions regarding the call or the relevance of specific topics, please contact us at social-simulation@googlegroups.com. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, please sign up here.