Scientific Animation Activities and Responsibilities over the past 4 years

Elected member of the Complex Systems Society Council (2007-)
Member of the European Social Simulation Association (2004-)
Member of the European Research Group: Spatial Simulation for the Social Sciences (S4) (2007-)
Responsibilities (past): Former secretary (2004-2008), Vice-President responsible for publications (2006-2008) and newsletter editor (2004-2006) of the European Social SImulation Association
Organisation of the conferences MARAMI 2010 : Première Conférence sur les Modèles et l'Analyse des Réseaux : Approches Mathématiques et Informatiques, October 11-12, 2010, Toulouse, co-organized by the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse et l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse MAPS-2 Modelisation multi-agents Appliquee aux Phenomenes Spatialises : Pratiques scientifiques et pedagogiques en sciences sociales, April 8-9, 2010, Paris, together with Arnaud Banos, Nicolas Becu, Pierre Gautreau, David Shereen
Organisation (past 4 years): -- Organisation of ESSA 2009: the conference of the European Social Simulation Association, september 14-18, 2009, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, together with Nigel Gilbert, Edmund Chattoe, Bruce Edmonds, Flaminio Squazzoni. -- Organisation of the conference MASHS 2009: Modeles et Apprentissage en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, June 8-9, 2009, Toulouse, together with Romain Boulet, Sebastien Dejean, Bertrand Jouve, Nathalie Villa. -- Organisation of the Journees de Rochebrune sur les Systemes Complexes naturels et artificiels 2009: Ontologie et Dynamique des Systemes Complexes, January 19-23, 2009, together with Sylviane Schwer, Daniele Bourcier, Anne Bretagnolle, Denis Phan. -- Organisation of the Workshop ABS2Agent-Based Spatial Simulation, November 24-25 2008, Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris, together with Arnaud Banos and Christophe Lang. -- Organisation of the 4th conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) in Toulouse, September 10-14, 2007 (together with Alain Berro, Pierre Mazzega, Stéphane Sanchez and Christophe Sibertin-Blanc) -- Organiser of the IRIT seminars at the Toulouse University for the Social Sciences -- Co-chair with Denise Pumain of the track Multi-Agents approaches for Socio-Economical Systems / Socio-Economical Systems inspirations for MAS at Multi-Agent for modelling Complex Systems (MA4CS), Satellite Workshop of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (Dresden, Germany, October 1-6, 2007). -- Co-Organisation of the European Research Summer School ABM-S4-ESHIA: Agent-Based Models for Spatial Systems in Social Sciences and Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, September 17th-22th, 2007, La Londe les Maures, Var, France -- Co-Organisation of the French Spring Research School Multi-Agent Modelling and Simulation in Social Sciences at Meze, April 8th-14th, 2007 (together with Nils Ferrand) -- Co-Organisation of the 1st Conference Society and Environment of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees about Multi-agent simulations in Toulouse, December 18th-19th, 2006 (together with Pierre Mazzega and Sylvia Becerra).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Member of the Multi-Agent Based Simulation Workshop Steering Committee
Member of the scientific committee for (forthcoming conferences) : AAMAS 2010 The ninth Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Toronto (Canada), May 10-14, 2010. MABS 2010 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation Toronto (Canada), May 10-11, 2010. REiSO'2010 Atelier REcherche et REcommandation d'information dans les REseaux SOciaux, Marseille (France), May 25, 2010. EPOS 2010 Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation Hamburg (Germany), June 23-25, 2010. SocialCom 2010, The Second IEEE International Conference On Social Computing, Minneapolis (USA), August 20-22, 2010. Artificial Economics 2010 A symposium in Agent-Based Computational Methods in Finance and Economics Treviso (Italy), September 9-10, 2010. ECCS'10 Satellite Meeting "Emergence, Path dependence and Transitions in Geographical Space" Lisbon (Portugal), September 16th, 2010. QTESO 2nd International Workshop on Quality in Techno-Social Systems @SASO 2010, Budapest (Hungary), September 28th, 2010.
Member of the scientific committee for conferences (past 4 years) : ESSA Conferences (2003-2009), World Conference for Social Simulation (WCSS'06, WCSS'08), Artificial Economics (2005-2010), MABS (2005-2010), AAMAS (2009-2010), Epistemological Perspectives On Simulation EPOS (2006, 2008, 2010), SocialCom (2009-2010), AAECS workshop on Applied Agent based simulator Engineering for Complex System study (2009), Atelier Social Web @EGC (2010), Model-To-Model (2004,2007), Workshop Social Simulation @ IJCAI 2009, Workshop on Social Simulation and Modelling @EPIA'2009, Agent Based Social Simulation @Autonomics 2009, International Conference On reputation theory and technology (ICORE'09), IBERAMIA (Ibero-American AI Conference) /SBIA (the Brazilian AI Symposium) (2006), Journées Francophones sur les Systèmes Multi-Agents (JFSMA) (2006-2007), Journées de Rochebrune sur les Systèmes Complexes naturels et artificiels (2004-2007), MASHS (2007-2009) Majecstic (2003-2006),
Reviewer for (past 4 years): Physical Review E, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), Advances for Complex Systems (ACS), Technique et Sciences Informatiques (TSI), Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR), Sociological Methods and Research (SMR), International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), Mind&Society, Cahiers de l'Agriculture, Forest Science, European Journal of Economic and Social Systems (EJESS), Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle (RIA), Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport, Nouvelles Perspectives en Sciences Sociales (NPSS), Systèmes d'Information et Management (SIM).

Ongoing Scientific Projects

• Quality collectives: Socially Intelligent Systems for Quality (FP7-QLectives 2009-2012)

• Multi-Agent for Environmental Norms Impact Assessment (RTRA STAE-MAELIA 2009-2012)

• SIMulation PArticipative pour la Gestion de l'Eau (Projet EDF 2009)

• An individual-based modelling and simulation platform for Geography (ANR-MAGeo 2007-2010)