Paper Submission

Authors are requested…

· to submit their papers of about 5,000-8,000 words or an extended abstract of about 1000 words as PDF

· to use the submission system provided by EasyChair (link)

· to submit until 1 March 2010 (23:59 CET)

· to submit the paper without author information on the PDF document (anonymous review process)

Each full paper or abstract will be reviewed by two members of the program committee at least. The committee will consider also abstracts, although full papers are preferred. For any information, please contact EPOS2010@tu-harburg.de or the organization committee.

Please note the following instruction for EasyChair: If you decide to submit an extended abstract of your work, please upload the extended abstract as PDF document (Upload paper). It won't be sufficient to just fill the field 'Abstract' in the submission input mask. Thank you.

Topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not restricted to, issues such as:

· Link between theory and simulation models

· Empirical reality and data in simulation models

· Internal and external validation strategies and methods in computational models

· Examples of models able to integrate computational modelling and other research methods (such as, for example, experimental, statistical, qualitative methods)

· Standards for presenting and analyzing simulation results

· Modeling strategies (KISS vs. KIDS)

· Epistemological issues on theory building and computer simulation

· Common points and differences between physical and social complex systems modelling

· Epistemological consequences of generative method and explanation

Important deadlines are as follows:

March 1 Submission of papers or extended abstracts

April 22 Notification of acceptance

May 31 Receipt of full papers

June 23-25 Workshop, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany (http://www.tu-harburg.de/about/)