We invite papers on all aspects relating to AI techniques in simulation and simulation techniques for AI research and application, with particular attention to interdisciplinary experiences. Both reports on practical results and recent research contributions will be considered. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Foundations
- epistemological background of simulation
- models of humans using simulation in daily reasoning
- general model life cycle issue
- empirical AI: the role of simulation in testing AI instruments
- AI for Simulation
- the intelligent model/simulation optimization techniques (a wider view to optimization-based calibration e.g. using a GA...)
- automated consistency checking using constraint satisfaction techniques, etc
- learning techniques for simulation model design and optimization
- role playing or other games as intelligent elicitation of model contents
- intelligent user interfaces to modelling and models
- intelligent visualization of simulation dynamics
- intelligent data and text analysis in the context of modelling and simulation
- qualitative simulation and qualitative model representation/description (naive physics, naive geography...)
- logic-based modelling techniques
- intelligent/agent-based simulation infrastructure
- agent-based modelling and simulation
- embedding detailed cognitive models of humans
- Simulation for AI
- simulation-based testbeds and contests for AI
- best practices for developing simulation-based testbeds for AI instruments and theories
- simulation in cognitive models (for evaluating action outcomes...)
- simulation as problem solving/decision making
- Applications and Tools
- AI and combined multi-model simulation
- AI and simulation in games and entertainment
- Virtual characters
- Intelligent tools for simulation and simulation-based tools for AI (Simulation for AI)
- Case studies and applications in domains such as: simulation of human and social dynamics, military applications, industrial engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, swarm intelligence, ethological/ecological/biological modelling, artificial life, training and tutoring, etc.