MECS Jahrestagung 2016: Agent Cultures and Zombielands
23. Jun
// MECS // Annual Conference // June 23 - 25, 2016 //
Agent Cultures and Zombielands.
Fields, Fictions and Futures of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
The MECS 2016 Annual Conference «Agent Cultures and Zombielands» explores the epistemological impact and the mediatechnological conditions of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABM). Today, ABM ranges from infrastructure models for production sequences, administrative processes, warehousing, transport and traffic, and communication networks, to the simulation of social systems like animal collectives, pedestrian motion, urban studies, crowd management, evacuation studies, epidemiology, and financial markets, up to integrative Global Scale Agent Models. Agent-based Modeling and Simulation share a paradigm of distributed control among multiple autonomous and lifelike agents. The rise of ABM implies a conception and specification of (artificial) sociality.
The MECS 2016 Annual Conference «Agent Cultures and Zombielands» will examine this particular dimension of sociality in ABM from a transdisciplinary perspective, conveying scholars from computer science, social science, media studies, and experts from various fields of application. General questions touch on the verisimilitude of ›lifelike‹ behavior. They ask about the conceptual ingredients of the sociality in social simulations. And they inquire how social simulations, vice versa, might have been impregnated sociological and political notions of ›the social‹.
Conference Dates
Thursday, June 23rd – Saturday, June 25th, 2016
Conference Venue
Freiraum Lüneburg
Salzstraße 1
21335 Lüneburg
Tel.: +49 (0) 4131 8201 750
E-Mail: info@freiraum-lueneburg.de
Concept & Organization
Sebastian Vehlken
Ricky Wichum
REGISTRATION
The symposium is open to the public and free of charge, but registration is required. Please register by sending an e-mail to mecs@leuphana.de
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Program
THURSDAY 23-06-2016
14.30
Welcome Reception
15.00
Opening Remarks
Claus Pias, Martin Warnke
Introduction
Sebastian Vehlken, Ricky Wichum
15.30
Robert Axtell
Opening Keynote
16.45
Coffee Break
17.00
Eric Winsberg (University of Southern Florida)
A Tale of Two Methods
18.00
Get Together
19.00
Movie Screening
Echtzeit (Hellmuth Costard & Jürgen Ebert, BRD 1983, 107 Min)
with an introduction by Florian Wüst (Berlin)
Admission is free.
SCALA Programmkino, Apothekenstr. 17, 21335 Lüneburg
www.scala-kino.net/extras/echtzeit
21.00
Dinner
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FRIDAY 24-06-2016
10.00
Rainer Hegselmann (Bayreuth University)
Thomas Schelling and James M.Sakoda: How to become an Unknown Pioneer?
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Franck Varenne (University of Rouen/CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
On Methodological Discretism
12.30
Lunch Break
14.00
Klaus G. Troitzsch (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Can Agent-based Simulation Models Replicate Organized Crime?
15.00
Alexander Galloway (New York University)
The Computational Decision
16.00
Coffee Break
16.30
Petra Gehring (TU Darmstadt)
Drawn from Life: Power of a Paradigm
17.30
Get Together
18.30
Keynote
Sara Y. Del Valle (Los Alamos Laboratory)
Agent-based Modeling Approaches for Simulating Infectious Diseases
20.00
Drinks & Dinner, Schröders Biergarten, Adress: Vor dem Roten Tore 72, 21335 Lüneburg
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SATURDAY, 25-06-2016
10.00
Sven Opitz (University of Marburg)
Simulating the World: The Digital Enactment of Pandemics as a Mode of
Global Self-Observation
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Christian Borch (Copenhagen Business School)
Agent-Based Modeling and Algorithmic Finance: What ABM might teach Economic Sociology about Inter-Algorithmic Sociality
12.30
Hanno Pahl (Ludwig-Maximulian-University München)
Agent-Based Modeling in Macroeconomics: Opportunities and Obstacles. Some Evidence from the Field.
13.30
Sebastian Vehlken, Ricky Wichum
Closing Remarks