Agent 2006

PAPER FORMAT GUIDELINES

**Final Paper Deadline: August 7, 2006** (Note: Papers must be submitted
no later than this date and be accompanied by publication release forms
in order to be included in this year's proceedings. A CD of the
conference proceedings will be available at the conference.)

**Materials to send:** 1. Electronic (PDF) file (see style
specifications; send to e-mail address below)

2\. Guest Contributor's Publication Release form and Guest Speaker\
Release form (*signed by each author* listed in the paper and mailed or
faxed to the address or number below)

**Send to:** Margaret Clemmons Technical Services Division

E-mail: mclemmons@anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory

Phone: 630-252-6184 9700 S. Cass Ave., Bldg. 900

Fax: 630-252-6700 Argonne, IL 60439

SAMPLE PAPER:

A NEW APPROACH TO AGENT MODELS

A.B. JONES[^1], Adaptive Modeling, Inc., Boulder, CO

C.D. SMITH, Technical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

E.F. MILLER, Adaptive Modeling, Inc., Boulder, CO

G.H. WILLIAMS, University of London, UK

ABSTRACT

> Each paper should begin with an abstract of 250 words or less. Do not
> indent the first line of the abstract. Set the right and left margins
> at 1.5 inches (for a line length of 5.5 inches). The font for the
> abstract only is 11-point Times Roman.
>
> **Keywords:** Please provide four or five keywords

INTRODUCTION

This sample paper illustrates the format for papers to be presented at
the *Agent 2006 Conference on Social Agents: Results and Prospects*, to
be held at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center, and co-hosted
with Argonne National Laboratory, on September 21-23, 2006. Please
provide the address for the corresponding author as shown in the
footnote on page 1. **Papers that are submitted by the camera-ready
paper deadline (August 7, 2006) will be published on a CD that will be
distributed at the conference.**

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING

Manuscript Submission

Please provide your paper in PDF format. **Note: Papers for this year's
conference will not be edited or re-formatted; they will be published
as-received.** For any questions about the preparation of your paper,
please contact Margaret Clemmons at Argonne (see information above).

Guest Contributor's Publication Release and Guest Speaker Release Forms

Publication release forms for authors (guest contributors) and guest
speakers are provided at the end of these guidelines. If you prefer, you
can download the forms ([Guest Contributor's Publication
Release](../contributor.doc) or [Guest Speaker Publication
Release](../speaker.doc)) from the Agent 2006 website. All authors or
guest speakers must complete and sign the appropriate form. *Note that
each author must sign a form, unless he or she is from the same
organization; if that is the case, one author may check the appropriate
box and sign for all persons from that organization.* If not, each
author from a different organization must sign a release form. Please
sign the forms and return them by mail or fax (630-252-6700), along with
the PDF file of your paper, to Margaret Clemmons at the address or
number provided above by August 7, 2006. For questions, please call
630‑252-6184.

Page Layout and Text Font

Proofread your paper carefully. Have it edited if possible. The font
used in this example is 12-point Times New Roman. The line spacing is
set at exactly 13 points throughout to prevent spacing from shifting for
superscripts and subscripts. Choose a comparable serif font for your
paper.

The first lines of paragraphs in this example (except for the abstract)
are indented 0.5 inches. The right and left margins (except for the
abstract) are set at 1.0 inch, for a line length of 6.5 inches. Top and
bottom margins are 1.0 inch. Text is fully justified. Turn on the widow
control feature of your word processor, and turn off hyphenation. If you
use acronyms or abbreviations, define them at first use.

Title and Headings

The title and headings are in 12-point Arial. Choose a comparable sans
serif font for your paper. Type the title of your paper in boldface
**UPPERCASE LETTERS** on the first line of the first page of your
manuscript. Center the title between the margins. Leave one line of
space below the title. For each author, type the author's initials and
last name, followed by that author's affiliation (see "authors" in this
example). Center these lines. Use an asterisk (\*) to indicate a
footnote with the name, postal address, and e-mail address of the
corresponding author.

First-level headings are in boldface type in **UPPERCASE LETTERS**,
centered between the margins. Second-level headings are in boldface type
in **Initial Uppercase Letters** at the left margin. Third-level
headings are in italics type with *Initial Uppercase Letters* at the
left margin. Two lines of space precede headings, and one line of space
follows.

References

List cited literature at the end of the paper, in alphabetical order by
first author's surname. **Check the final version to be sure that all
documents cited are listed in the reference section**. In the text, cite
these references by using the author's surname and the year of
publication. Use "as reported by Follmer (1974)" or "as reported by
others (Poundstone 1985; Chantemargue et al. 1998)" as appropriate. Use
the following style for entries in the reference list:

Follmer, H., 1974, "Random Economies with Many Interacting Agents,"
*Journal of Mathe-matical Economics* **1**(1):51--62.

Chantemargue, F., O. Krone, M. Schumacher, T. Dagaeff, and B.
Hirsbrunner, 1998, "Autono-mous Agents: From Concepts to
Implementation," in *Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Meeting on
Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR\'98)*, Vol. 2, pp. 731‑736,
Vienna, Austria, April 14--17.

Macy, M.W., 1998, "Social Order in Artificial Worlds," *Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation*; available at
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/1/1/r.html.

Poundstone, W., 1985, *The Recursive Universe*, Chicago, IL:
Contemporary Books.

ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

Embed all illustrations (preferably at the top or bottom of a page) into
your paper. Provide your illustrations in either color or black and
white (Figure 1 is an example.) Number figures in the order in which
they are cited in the text. Give each figure a brief, self-explanatory
caption in 11-point Arial, as shown in the example below. Adjust the
caption to fit under the width of the illustration (if the illustration
is less than 6.5 inches wide), with one line of space between the
illustration and the caption.

Number tables in the order in which they are cited in the text, and
integrate them into the text after their citations, preferably at the
top or bottom of a page. Give each table a self-explanatory title in
11-point Arial. Adjust the title to fit above the width of the table (if
the table is less than 6.5 inches wide), with one line of space between
the title and the table. Use a font no smaller than 10 points. Table 1
is an example.

**FIGURE 1** Market ownership through time

**TABLE 1** Simple agent responses to potential environmental stimuli^a^

+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
| Environmental Stimulus |   | Agent     |   | > |                           |
|                        |   | State     |   |   |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | A |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | g |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | e |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | n |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | t |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | > |                           |
|                        |   |           |   |   |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | R |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | e |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | s |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | p |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | o |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | n |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | s |                           |
|                        |   |           |   | e |                           |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
|                        |   |           |   |   |                           |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
| Increasing temperature |   | Resting   |   |   | Continue resting          |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
| Increasing temperature |   | Moving    |   |   | Slow down and go to sleep |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
| Decreasing temperature |   | Resting   |   |   | Wake up and start moving  |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+
| Decreasing temperature |   | Moving    |   |   | Speed up                  |
+------------------------+---+-----------+---+---+---------------------------+

> a Only stimuli with responses have been identified.

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[^1]: ^^ *Corresponding author address*: Andrew B. Jones, Adaptive
    Modeling, Inc., 1234 Rocky Mountain Way, Boulder, CO 80308; e-mail:
    abjones@adapt.com.