Last Updated: 14 December 2000

Call for Papers on
Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

Seventh International Conference

Computing in Economics and Finance
Society for Computational Economics
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
June 28-30, 2001

Papers on topics related to Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) are solicited for possible inclusion in one or more sessions of the Seventh International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF'2001) sponsored by the Society for Computational Economics (SCE), to be held at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, June 28-30, 2001.

ACE is the computational study of economies modelled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. One principal concern of ACE researchers is to understand why certain global regularities have been observed to evolve and persist in decentralized market economies despite the absence of top-down planning and control: for example, trade networks, socially accepted monies, and market protocols. The challenge is to explain constructively how such global regularities might arise from the bottom up, through the repeated local interactions of autonomous agents acting in their own perceived self-interest. A second principal concern is to use ACE frameworks normatively, as computational laboratories within which alternative socioeconomic structures can be studied and tested with regard to their effects on individual behavior and social welfare. This normative concern complements a descriptive concern with actually observed global regularities by seeking deeper possible explanations not only for why certain global regularities have been observed to evolve but also why others have not. Additional information about ACE can be obtained at the ACE Web site at

https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/archive/tesfatsi/ace.htm.

Authors wishing to present a paper in the special ACE session(s) at CEF'2001 are invited to submit an extended abstract (3-4 pages) or copy of their paper via the conference Web site at

https://gemini.econ.yale.edu/conference/SCE2001/.

The conference Web site will begin accepting submissions on January 1, 2001, and will continue to accept submissions through March 1, 2001. The plan is to have a menu at this conference Web site that will permit those submitting abstracts/papers to indicate which conference program member should consider the submission. If you are interested in having your submission considered for the ACE special session(s), please indicate Leigh Tesfatsion as the appropriate program committee member to consider your submission. The title page of each submission should give a complete mailing address for each coauthor (surface mail address, email address, telephone number(s), and FAX number).

Each submission for the CEF'2001 ACE special session(s) should address a clearly defined issue of economic interest from an agent-based perspective. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

If computational experiments are reported, the design for these experiments should be carefully laid out and explained and a statistical analysis of the findings should be given along with an economic interpretation. If at all possible, the software used to generate the experimental findings should be available either on a freely accessible Web site, by request from the author(s), or by other means in order to permit replication of the findings by other researchers. It is understood that proprietary restrictions may prevent the full release of source code.

If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact

Leigh Tesfatsion
SCE Contact Person for ACE Special Interest Group
Department of Economics
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-1070
https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/archive/tesfatsi/
tesfatsi@iastate.edu

Thank you!