The Center for Complexity in Business invites you to submit an abstract for consideration for the 3rd annual Complexity in Business Conference. The conference will be held in Washington DC on October 14th, 2011.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The 3rd Annual Complexity in Business Conference endeavors to be the premier meeting for the intersection of Complex Systems and Business. The conference will be a one-day event and will include talks by thought leaders and an audience blend of academics and industry practitioners. Once again we will be hosting concurrent presentation tracks during the conference and as such we encourage researchers and industry practitioners to submit an abstract of their best work. We are looking forward to a lively set of interactions among a very distinguished group of researchers and business leaders.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Complexity in Business at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the University of Maryland. The 2011 Conference will be held once again at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Details about the conference program, logistics, hotel and a link for registration will be provided soon.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Uri Wilensky

Professor, Learning Sciences

Professor, Computer Science

Director, Center for Connected Learning & Computer-Based Modeling

Northwestern University

School of Education and Social Policy

Dr. Felix Reed-Tsochas

James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems

Director, Complex Systems Studies

Institute for Science, Innovation and Society

Co-Director, CABDyN Complexity Centre

University of Oxford

Saïd Business School

CURRENT TOPICS

Submissions are encouraged that apply complex systems method to any area of management science. Areas of focus include applications of complex system methods, such as agent-based modeling, network science (social network analysis), nonlinear optimization (machine learning), spatial modeling (geographic information systems) and other techniques to analyze and solve problems that arise when large numbers of entities (consumers, employees, traders, firms, etc.) interact in ways that are too complex to be understood by more traditional management research tools. Interesting submissions could be based in practically any area of modern management, including marketing, information systems, operations and logistics, finance, and organization science. Specific topics might include:

* Computational Consumer Behavior Modeling

* Geography and Computational Modeling

* Diffusion of Innovation

* Network-based Organizational Learning

* Advanced Data Mining and Agent-based Modeling

* Leverage Points and Scenario Analysis

* Understanding the Economic and Cultural Implications of Internet-enabled Social Media

SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

Preference for academic abstracts will be given to more rigorous analytical, empirical and behavioral approaches. Presentations should be 25 minutes in length. Because there will be no published proceedings, we encourage authors to submit their best work, providing it will not have been published by the date of the conference.

Abstracts may be submitted ONLY via Easy Chair www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccb2011

They should be no longer than 1 page.

The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2011 at 11:59 pm, Eastern-Standard Time. The conference committee will select abstracts on a competitive basis, and authors will be notified by August 12, 2011.

MORE INFORMATION

More information about the conference can be found online at www.rhsmith.umd.edu/ccb/conference/2011