CONFERENCE: MODELS AND SIMULATIONS 3. Charlottesville, Virginia, March 
5-7 2009, will be the site for the first Models and Simulations 
conference in North America, following the successful MS1 in Paris and 
MS2 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. This is an international conference and 
those outside North America are encouraged to attend. The focus of the 
conference is on the philosophical and methodological aspects of 
simulations and models, broadly construed, and papers on any aspect of 
these topics are welcome from both philosophers and scientists. In 
addition to papers directly addressing simulations or models, MS3 
welcomes submissions on related topics such as representations, 
artificial life, complexity theory, logic, agent based modeling, the 
truth status of models, the relations between theories, simulations, and 
models, neural nets, and other subjects. The keynote speakers for 2009 
will be Mark Bedau and Patrick Suppes. Initial submissions should be in 
the form of a 1000 word abstract and all submissions are refereed. The 
deadline for submissions is September 15 2008. Details of the conference 
and instructions for paper submissions are available at 
<http://people.virginia.edu/~pwh2a/MS3.htm> or simply google Models and 
Simulations 3.


Kevin Hoover