SOCIAL SIMULATION ORGANISATIONS AND RESEARCH CENTRES

This resource list is intended to guide you to the organizations and groups working in the various fields of social and other disciplines of simulation including computer modelling, artifical intelligence and complexity. If you would like to have your organization or work added to this list, please contact us with details of your work and your URL.

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American Association for Artificial Intelligence
A nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.

CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
The Repository collects files, programs and publications of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.

COSI--Complexity in Social Science
COSI is co-ordinated by the Cognitive Engineering Research Group (GRIC). GRIC is part of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse.

EASy - Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
A project in the Cognitive and Computing Sciences department at the University of Sussex.

European Social Simulation Association
ESSA is a professional association for those working within the European social simulation community. ESSA promotes and supports European-based social simulation at the researcher, practitioner and student levels.

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IJACLI, the main international gathering of researchers in AI.

International Society of Artificial Life
Based at Reed College, ISAL is a nonprofit, democratic, international, professional society dedicated to promoting scientific research and education relatingto artificial life, including sponsoring conferences, publishing scientific journals and newsletters, and maintaining web sites related to artificial life.

Leiden Center for Natural Computing
The Leiden Center promotes research and education in natural computing, or the study of computational systems found in or inspired by the natural world.

Microsimulation Unit
The Microsimulation Unit is based in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge.

NATSEM
The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra develops microsimulation models and undertakes a wide range of social and economic research.

Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is a private, nonprofit, multidisciplinary research and education cente devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science.

SIGART
The ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Society for Computer Simulation International
An international, multidisciplinary forum dedicated to applications, development, education and research in modeling and simulation.