Call for Papers
ABM4Crime – Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Research
Thematic track at the 18th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Porto, Portugal)
URL: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/thematic-tracks/abm4crime/
*** Proceedings will be published in Spinger’s Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence ***
Background
Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behaviour. Traditional criminological research methods use interviews, register data, observations, or may employ vignette studies. In addition to these methods, Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has recently emerged as an innovative method to study crime. The aim of this workshop is to discuss both the benefits and possible drawback of ABM as a tool for criminology, as well as to identify its most promising application areas.
Agent-based modelling takes existing knowledge from the social sciences as point of departure and tries to formalise this knowledge in dynamic computational models. Using the appropriate software these models can be used to simulate human behaviour: virtual scenarios that (dynamically) simulate behaviour over time. These types of computer simulations offer opportunities to develop innovative methods and tools to better understand, predict and possibly even prevent deviant behaviour. Example applications are predicting the spatio-temporal dynamics of residential burglary, explaining the behaviour of street robbers, or simulating aggression management strategies for training purposes in law enforcement.
Workshop Aim
This workshop is intended for Agent-Based Modellers who are interested in Criminology as a potential application domain for their models, as well as for Social Scientist with an interest in ABM as a tool to study criminological questions. Example questions that may be addressed during the workshop include the following:
Topics of Interest
Application Areas of Interest
Submission and Proceedings
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2017 EasyChair submission page. Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper is to be submitted.
Submitted papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a maximum of 12 pages. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process, and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2017 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2015 proceedings were indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
Important dates
Organising Committee
Charlotte Gerritsen, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, The Netherlands
Tibor Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Corinna Elsenbroich, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Program Committee
Daniel Birks, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
Tibor Bosse, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Henk Elffers, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, the Netherlands
Corinna Elsenbroich, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Vasco Furtado, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Charlotte Gerritsen, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, The Netherlands
Elizabeth Groff, Temple University, United States
Nicola Lettieri, ISFOL Rome, Italy
Lin Liu, University of Cincinnati, United States
Nicholas Malleson, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Klaus Troitzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany