Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly recognized as the most promising alternative set of tools to understand the highly complex modern economy both by academics (Farmer and Foley, 2009) and policy makers (Trichet, 2010).
ABMs allow us to carefully investigate complex interactions among agents in a very flexible manner. Yet, currently, they lack solid behavioral and cognitive foundations for specifying how agents learn and behave. We aim to start filling the gap in the literature by inviting contributions that conduct behavioral experiments to deepen our understanding of human interactive situation that can be incorporated in to agent-based models, and/or computational experiments to test robustness of existing models by taking into various finding from behavioral experiments.
The prospective authors should submit the paper on-line through EasyChair (see the conference website http://www.aiecon.org/conference/wcss2012/index.htm on "Paper Submission"). When submitting, please choose "Behavioral and Cognitive Bases for Agent-Based Models" as the topic of interest so that it will be separated from other general submissions. The authors are also expected to send an email to the special session organizer to indicate that they have done so. The paper submission deadline is May 15, 2012, and other schedules are the same as what have been indicated in the conference website.