ESSA newsletter 109 - 01/25/2007 -> 01/31/2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important ========= This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation Association for their own use. Please do not distribute further. To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!! Please send news and related contributions to the editors!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. By the way ... 2. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums 3. Recent publications 4. Job opportunities ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================================== 1. By the way ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Brahms MultiAgent Simulation Environment: Brahms is a simulation tool for representing the interactive behaviors of people and objects in a simulated world For more information visit: http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/brahms/index.html -- Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'07), Part of the 2007 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'07), March 25 - 29, 2007 Norfolk, VA, USA, Brahms Tutorial, Modeling and Simulation with the Brahms Agent Environment For more information visit: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/SCS-TM/ADS-2007.htm -- =================================================================================== 2. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSA 2007: 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, September 10-14, 2007, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse University of Social Sciences, Toulouse, France For more information visit: http://www.irit.fr/essa2007 -- 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Fiance, Society for Computational Economics (http://comp-econ.org/) 14-16 June 2007 at HEC Montreal, Canada -- 13th Annual Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 8-21 July, 2007 For more information visit: http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/announce07.html -- Summer School in Complexity, Kent, UK, 9-17 July, 2007 For more information visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/complexityscience/taughtcourse/ -- TextGraphs-2, NAACL/HLT 2007 Workshop, Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007 For more information visit: http://www.textgraphs.org/ws07 -- Global Sensitivity Analysis for Macroeconomic Models - Course, Ispra (Italy), April 12-13 2007. For more information visit: http://eemc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events2.htm -- =================================================================================== 3. Recent Publications ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 documents in NEP report on on Collective Decision-Making For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-01-23 -- Network Perspectives on Communities" has been published in Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences. For more information visit: http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol1/iss4/art2 -- Book Review: Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan, by Douglas R. White and Ulla C. Johansen (Oxford, UK and Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004, Cloth / 2006, Paper, 544 pages) For more information visit: http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol1/iss4/art4 -- =================================================================================== 4. Job opportunities (including PhD positions) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford office) - Actor-oriented analysis of coupled socio-ecological systems - Climate adaptation and social learning - Interns For more information visit: http://www.sei.se/index.php?page=jobitem&item=5595 -- Post-Doc/Research-Fellow Position for 2+ Years at UNSW in Canberra, Australia, in areas:Multi-agent Simulation, Stochastic Systems, Strategic Planning, Risk assessment in complex systems For more information contact: Dr. Michael Barlow (m.barlow@adfa.edu.au) or Associate Professor Hussein Abbass (abbass@itee.adfa.edu.au) -- University of Sussex, SPRU - Science & Technology Policy Research, Research Fellow Agent-based Modelling Ref 644, Salary: £20,645 - £30,902 p.a. (pay award pending) Fixed Term until February 2009. For more information visit: -- The LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (IAMO) in Halle (Saale), Germany, has several openings for University graduates and scientists with doctorates to commence work immediately. For more information visit: http://www.iamo.de =================================================================================== Feel free to send/forward news and related contributions, which you would like to share with other members at {bogdan, shah} @ cfpm.org We'll be pleased to include them into the following newsletter. |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | I m p o r t a n t |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation | Association for their own use. 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