Trends in Social Simulation

Rosaria Conte

In Europe Started in Surrey in the early

90s: the SimSoc Symposia The first world-wide

conferences: ICCS&SSseries

Independent series: ABS inPassau, Dagstuhl,

ABSS at AgentLink SimSoc consortium

JASSS ESSA

ESSA conferences ZUMA summer school ESSA summer school

ESSA Growing membership (currently ca. 350) Current SIGs

Market Dynamics, Policy Social Conflict and Social Simulation (SCSS),

Societal Transitions SIG 1st summer school Sponsorship of new events:

EPOS 2010 - 4th Conference on Epistemological Perspectveson Simulation, 1st ESSA Summer School, Univ. of Brescia,WCSS, Social Conflict and Social Simulation WS, SCIVE 2010- Social Complexity of Informal Value Exchange.

In theWorld

MABS Independent event series:

Agent ConferenceNorthWestern,

Agent-Directed Simulation(ADS) Symposium,Orlando, Florida,

Santa Fè projects Associations, NAACSOS,

PAAA WCSS conferences

Outputs? Trends in social simulation: cites

Scientific publications Applications

Cites per field/discipline

Cites per application domain

Still to be checked… Projects Patents

Any Lesson? General positive trend of simulation The gap widens Stronger in interdisciplinary fields (complex

systems) Technologies do not matter: increase stronger in

complexity than ICT, in economics and politicalscience than MAS.

Scentific areas do not matter: except complexity,equally strong in SSH as in ICT

Interesting increase in law and geography: couldbe due to applications? Lets see.

How to interpret? Hard to say Multiplication of events? Promotion?

Associations? Regional and worldwide conferences?

Questions to address

• Which major consequences should weexpect? Are all of them positive?

• Which field and areas to invest in, and how?• Which strategic alliances to promote or

strengthen– Which new frontiers?– Application fields: so far lawmakers and

adiministrators. What about professions andindustry?

• Not dismiss heading before time• Simulation is an asset on which to

capitalize and build upon…• Which future to prospect? Let us make a

simulation :-)

Thank you

Simulating the future ofsimulation…