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• Call for paper submission for the Zurich workshop "Extreme events in agent-based socio-economic models" within the International Workshop Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems ETH Zurich, June 8-13, 2009. The Zurich Workshop, with its impressive list of invited speakers, promises to be one of the major scientific events of the year. This COST session will address, in the context of agent-based socio-economic models for policy-making, topics such as:
  • the use the models as a tool for analyzing and mitigating the consequences of exogenous extreme events such as an earth quake, an epidemic, a major terrorist act
  • the endogenous emergence of extreme events in agent-based models: detection, explanation, analysis, mitigation
  • the use of agent based models for the economic valuation of extreme events
  Please submit a full paper or an abstract before January 31, 2009, BOTH TO christophe.deissenberg@univmed .fr AND TO registration, indicating "Participant of COST satellite workshop" in the "Comments and Special Wishes" field of the registration form. Members of COST-MP0801 whose paper is accepted will normally be entitled to the usual COST reimbursement for their travel. However, they will have to pay the regular Zurich conference fee, see details .
• from EC: INFO regarding STSM for Early-Stage-Researchers: click here... for details;
• Here you find COST Guidelines for Members;