Social sciences are now moving to a new stage. One
of the
promising methodologies is agent-based modeling.¡@Pacific-Asian
Association for Agent-based Approach
in Social Systems Sciences (PAAA) is the Pacific-Asian regional
platform to
explore the frontiers. PAAA works closely with its American equivalent,
NAACSOS
and the European Social Simulation Association, ESSA.
The objective of PAAA is to promote worldwide activities of the
multi-disciplinary community on multi-agent, computational economics,
organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems. PAAA lets
researchers and practitioners bring together from diverse fields, such
as
computer science, system science, economics, physics, sociology,
psychology,
and complex theory in order to understand emergent and collective
phenomena in
economic, organization, and social systems.
PAAA will also give opportunities to discuss the effectiveness and
limitations
of computational models and methodologies for social sciences.
Our most important mission is to organize Conference of AESCS
(Agent-based
Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems). AESCS 2009 mainly
focuses
on applications of agent-based technologies to social complex systems.
Conference participants will present the latest results of various
researches,
and discuss emergent phenomena and modeling issues of social complex
systems,
which will provide further understanding on social complex problems
with
agent-based technologies.