[Swarm-Modelling] CfP: Modelling and KM for Sustainable Development (MoKMaSD 2012)

[Paolo Milazzo]

MoKMaSD 2012 - Call for Papers
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1st International Symposium on
Modelling and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development
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Thessaloniki, Greece, 2 October 2012 - Co-located with SEFM 2010
http://mokmasd.iist.unu.edu/

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Paper Submission Deadline: 13 June 2012
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CONTEXT&  OBJECTIVES

The aim of the Symposium is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from academia, industry, government and non-government
organisations to present research results and exchange experience,
ideas, and solutions for modelling and analysing complex systems
and using knowledge management strategies, technology and systems
in various domain areas, including economy, governance, health,
biology, ecology, climate and poverty reduction, that address
problems of sustainable development.
Papers that present a synergistic approach that integrates
modelling and knowledge management and/or illustrate realistic
applications to sustainable development and make use of techniques
such as simulation, visualisation, animation, nonlinear systems
analysis, model-checking and inferential statistics are especially
welcome.
Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on
any relevant topic.  These can either be regular or short papers.
Short papers can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of
development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated.


TOPICS

Modelling methodologies and notations include:
* Systems Dynamics,
* Systems of Differential Equations,
* Game Theory,
* Machine Learning,
* Agent-based Methodologies,
* Process Calculi and Petri Nets,
* Automata-based Notations,
* Rewriting Systems,
* Membrane Systems,
* Cellular Automata,
* Discrete Optimisation Modelling,
* Continuous Optimisation
* Modelling,
* Empirical Modelling,
* Taxonomies and Ontologies.

Application domains include:
* Sustainability Science,
* Integrated Development Planning,
* Evidence-based Policy,
* Governance,
* Enterprise Architecture,
* Ecosystem Science,
* Epidemiology,
* Genetics,
* Population and Reintroduction Biology,
* Climate Change,
* Environmental Risk Assessment and Management,
* Urban Ecology and Smart Cities,
* Agricultural Systems,
* Poverty Reduction.

Synergistic approaches include:

(1) use of modelling methods and notations in a KM context
    to support
    - Knowledge Sharing,
    - System Thinking,
    - Modelling of Products and Services,
    - Population Dynamics,
    - Adaptivity;

(2) development and use of common modelling and KM frameworks
    to explore and understand complex biological, social and
    economic processes and systems such as
    - Ecosystems,
    - Organisations,
    - Individual Capabilities,
    - Business Processes,
    - Evolving City Systems,
    - Information and Knowledge Management Infrastructures,
    - Networks and Networking.


SYMPOSIUM FORMAT, SUBMISSION&  PUBLICATION

The one day symposium will feature one invited talk and contributed
paper presentations.
All contributions in the form of either regular papers, between
12 and 16 pages, or short papers, up to 6 pages, will undergo a
peer-review process.  All papers should be written in English and be
in LNCS format.  Detailed information on the submission procedure
are available at http://mokmasd.iist.unu.edu.

Accepted regular papers and a selection of accepted short papers
will be published after the Symposium by Springer in a volume of
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), which will collect
contributions to all workshops and symposia co-located with
SEFM 2012 (http://www.springer.com/lncs).  Condition for inclusion
in the post-proceedings is that at least one of the co-authors has
presented the paper at the Symposium.  Pre-proceedings will be
available online before the Symposium.

A special issue with selected papers may be planned, depending on
the number and quality of submissions.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

* Corrado Priami, COSBI, University of Trento, Italy
  Title: "Algorithmic Systems Ecology"


PROGRAM C0-CHAIRS

* Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR China
* Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University, UK


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Rajeev Bali, Coventry University, UK
* Roberto Barbuti, University of Pisa, Italy
* Thomas Anung Basuki, Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia
* Ettore Bolisani, University of Padua, Italy
* Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR
China (Co-chair)
* Steve Culley, University of Bath, UK
* Simone D'Alessandro, University of Pisa, Italy
* Francesco De Angelis, University of Camerino, Italy
* Rocco De Nicola, IMT - Institutions Markets Technologies, Italy
* Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University, UK (Co-chair)
* Tatiana Gavrilova, St. Petersburg University, Russia
* David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge, UK
* Meliha Handzic, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Serbia
* Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
* Erik Johnston, Arizona State University, USA
* Ozan Kahramanogullari, COSBI, Italy
* Nicos Komninos, URENIO Research, Aristotle University of Tessaloniki, Greece
* Franz Lehner, University of Passau, Germany
* Siu-Wai Leung, University of Macau, Macau SAR China
* Chris McMahon, University of Bath, UK
* Paolo Milazzo, University of Pisa, Italy
* Jeremy Millard, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark
* Sandra Moffett, University of Ulster, UK
* Adegboyega Ojo, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, UN / Macau SAR China
* Matteo Pedercini Millennium Institute, USA
* Ion Petre, Abo Akademi University, Finland
* Barbara Re, University of Camerino, Italy
* Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University, UK
* Michael Sonnenschein, University of Oldenburg, Germany
* Massimo Tavoni, FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy
* Hefeng Tong, ISTIC - Institute of Scientific and Technical
Information of China, China
* José M. Viedma Martí, University of Catalonia, Spain
* Shaofa Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIAT, China


CONTACT

All inquiries should be sent to address@hidden

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Antonio Cerone
United Nations University
UNU-IIST, Macau SAR China