Advance apologies for cross-postings. Please further distribute this
call for a theme issue of Environmental Modelling and Software to any
interested colleagues. Also note that contributions must contains
results and analysis (which could focus on methodological
development), rather than just conceptual presentations of model
frameworks and/or structure. We look forward to receiving your
contributions.
EMS Thematic Issue on
Spatial agent-based models for socio-ecological systems
Issue Editors: Dawn C. Parker, Tatiana Filatova, Peter Verburg and
Carol Ann Stannard
Co-sponsored by the Aberdeen Global Land Project Nodal Office on
Integration and Modelling (http://glp.macaulay.ac.uk/index.php )
Scope and aims
Coupled socio-ecological systems are complex and operate on a variety
of scales. Agent-based modeling is widely used to explore how
aggregated phenomena emerge from interactions of different actors and
processes at the micro level. These cross-scale interactions are
especially important in spatial socio-ecological systems where
heterogeneous human behavior changes the spatial environment. Agent-
based techniques allow modeling of these interactions and feedbacks.
The proposed ‘Thematic Issue’ of the Environmental Modelling &
Software journal (current impact Factor of 3.085) will feature
applications of agent-based modeling to spatial socio-ecological
research questions related to the impacts of heterogeneous human
behavior on the environment and ecosystem services. While focused on
topic, we anticipate that papers will span a broad range of subject
area, case study location, and methodological foci. We invite
innovative papers focusing on agent-based modeling, which address the
following topics/subject themes:
· Land use and landscape management and impacts on ecosystem services;
· Climate change effects on land use and land management;
· Urban/suburban development and decay and its effects;
· Agricultural land management and natural resource use;
· Development of new ontology-based land-use change modeling tools.
· Development of novel land market models;
· Integration of land market models with ecological landscape processes;
· Development of new data analysis methods to parameterize and analyze
the output of agent-based models;
· Innovative new methods for generating abstract landscape
configurations to initialize spatial simulation models.
The papers from this theme issue should satisfy the environmental
modeling aim of the EMS journal and further expand the scope of
socioeconomic modeling represented in EMS. We expect that final papers
for the issue will demonstrate modeling techniques that are critically
important to the development of robust integrated models using agent-
based modeling techniques.
Participation and timeline
Timeline for the TI on ‘Spatial agent-based models for socio-
ecological systems’:
Abstract/intent submission deadline December 15, 2010
Invitations to authors to submit full papers January 15, 2011
Submission of full papers for review April 1, 2011
If you are interested in submitting a contribution for the issue,
please email your contact details and intended contribution (title,
authors, and extended abstract) to [email protected] by December 15, 2010.
We will follow a three step review process:
1. Extended abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors and
recommendations will be made regarding the scope of the full paper;
extended abstracts should be about 1,000 words[1] plus a strong
bibliography that indicates the literature that the paper will build
upon;
2. Full papers will be sent out for external peer review following
Environmental Modelling & Software’s policy that, among other things,
requires at least 3 reviewers per paper plus valuable editorial comment;
3. Revised manuscripts will be examined by the Guest Editors and,
where necessary, the external reviewers.
[1] Participants of iEMSs’2010 organized sessions do not need to
prepare a new 1000 word abstract – please just indicate your interest
(send title+authors before December 15, 2010)
The call for papers is repeated here:
http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:spatial-agent-based-models-for-socio-ecological-systems-open&catid=37:journal-special-issue&Itemid=101
Dawn Cassandra Parker
School of Planning
University of Waterloo
+1-519-888-4567 x38888
EV1 306
[email protected]
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/planning/faculty/parker/index.html
