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The Social Simulation Conference 2023 will be organized by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow, 4-8th September 2023. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) to promote social simulation and computational social science in Europe and elsewhere.

This year’s special theme will be Social Simulation and Public Health with focus on the areas of Health Inequalities, Simulation and Evidence and Simulation for Policy.

ESSA Summer School in Social Simulation
Dates: August 28 - September 1, 2023
Submission Deadline: July 28, 2023

The European Social Simulation Association’s official 2023 Summer School will be held at The James Hutton Institute’s Craigiebuckler campus in Aberdeen, Scotland in the week before the Social Simulation Conference in Glasgow. The theme for the summer school is ‘Agent-Based Modelling for Wicked Problems’.

The introductory course is aimed at postgraduate students, early career researchers and analysts from academia, industry and policy, regardless of disciplinary background or specialism. No prior experience with agent-based modelling is required. A maximum of 30 participants will be accepted, who will work in small teams as part of the training, though individual exercises will also feature in the course.

Model Library
Newly Reviewed
Seven models passed CoMSES's peer review process this quarter! Some are still unpublished while their companion publications undergo journal peer review; others are currently under review by CoMSES. Published include the following models:

SIM-VOLATILE is a technology adoption model at the population level. It is in the frame of the circular economy, and there are three adoption/investment scenarios to explore. (Siavash Farahbakhsh)
Modern Wage Dynamics is a generative model of coupled economic production and allocation systems. Each simulation describes a series of interactions between a single aggregate firm and a set of households. (J Applegate)
LUCID: Land Use Competition In Drylands is a stylized model of a smallholder farming system, illustrating how competition between pastoralism and crop cultivation can affect livelihoods of households. (Gunnar Dressler, Birgit Müller, Lance Robinson)
A Computational Simulation for Task Allocation Influencing Performance in the Team System aims to simulate the whole process of task allocation, task execution and evaluation in the team system. (Shaoni Wang)
SWIRS Spread of a Woody Invader in Riparian Systems simulates the spatio-temporal spread of the woody invader Gleditsia. triacanthos in the riparian forest of the National Park Esteros de Farrapos e Islas del Río Uruguay. (Beatriz Sosa, Moira Zellner, Carlos Andrés Chiale)

New Model Uploads
Twenty-one new models were published in the CoMSES Model Library on a wide variety of topics that illustrate the depth and breadth of our community. These include:

exploring opinion dynamics and polarization processes through the simulation of protest emergence in a country with an independence movement
illustrating the dynamics of international capital flows
presenting a socio-epistemic model of science to observe what determines the creation and diffusion of mental models in the scientific community
testing the effects of two intervention scenarios on carbon storage and revenue in an existing forestland management system in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
developing an understanding of how the coupled demographic dynamics of herds and households constrain the growth of livestock populations in pastoral systems

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