ESSA newsletter 110 - 01/31/2007 -> 02/08/2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 and Discussion Papers 4. Job opportunities ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================================== 1. By the way ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSA promotes Workshops in Social Simulation!!! From 2006, the European Social Simulation Association (http://www.essa.eu.org) has a program to promote social simulation and especially to help in the organization of workshops on social simulation in Europe. For more information email: Frederic Amblard -- Monash University's Complexity Virtual Laboratory is an online resourcie for both research and education about complex systems. It provides numerous Java applets, together with related tutorials, references and web links that cover key ideas and processes in complexity theory. For more information visit: http:www.complexity.org.au/vlab/ -- Web application for displaying social graphs, JSViz is in Javascript (so it can be integrated directly into web pages) and it can read data directly from an XML file. For some demos and documentation see http://kylescholz.com/projects/speaking/tae2006/music/#B00005RGIZ http://www.kylescholz.com/blog/2006/06/force_directed_graphs_in_javas.html http://kylescholz.com/projects/wordnet/ It is downloadable at http://www.kylescholz.com/blog/2006/10/jsviz_031_available.html -- =================================================================================== 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 -- SASO 2007: International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007, deadline extended For more information visit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ -- Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007), 2nd CfP Poznan, Poland, April 25, 2007 For more information visit: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/10th_bis/cfp-saw.shtml -- 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 -- Workshop on Complex Adaptive Economic Systems, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) Lisbon, Portugal, 10th September, 2007 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/danl/ECALWorkshop/ -- Workshop on Social Learning in Embodied Agents, 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) Lisbon, Portugal, 1oth September 2007 For more information visit: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/slea/index.html -- Summer School in Complexity, Kent, UK, 9-17 July, 2007 For more information visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/complexityscience/taughtcourse/ -- Workshop I: Social Network Analysis: Theory and Methods, June 11-15, 2007 Workshop II: Qualitative Methods, July 9-13, 2007 to be held at the Indiana University, USA For more information visit: http://www.indiana.edu/~isr/isrip -- Call for Papers for special issue on the International Journal on Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Modelling Languages for Agent Systems. For more information visit: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=3D174 (Kathleen Carley kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu) -- 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Deadline extended to February 16th, Society for Computational Economics, 14-16 June 2007 at HEC Montreal, Canada For more information visit: http://www.hec.ca/CEF2007 -- Workshop "Computational and Methematical Approaches to Societal Transitions", Leiden, Netherlands, 26Feb-2Mar, 2007 For more information visit: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2007/246/info.php3?wsid=246 =================================================================================== 3. Recent Publications and Discussion Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), vol. 10, no.1 available online: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html -- 11 documents in NEP report on on Collective Decision-Making For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-01-28 -- Paul Humphreys, Extending Ourselves: Computational Science, Empiricism, and Scientific Method, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. For more information visit: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=2801 -- Loet Leydesdorff, On the Normalization and Visualization of Author Co-Citation Data, Amsterdam School of Communications Research. For more information visit: http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/aca07/index.htm -- =================================================================================== 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 -- Research Fellow Agent-based Modelling, SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, JEL classification(s): C, O, Q, R. For more information visit: http://www.inomics.com/cgi/job?action=detail;nr=5197 -- 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) -- PhD opportunities in Social Network Analysis The University of Manchester, UK. CCSR has four fully funded PhD studentships available for a September 2007 start. Contact: Mark Tranmer, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Email: mark.tranmer@manchester.ac.uk For more information visit: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/ -- Metropolitan Council in St. Paul, MN, looking for talent that can prepare, implement, calibrate and manage the demographic and land-use modeling. The coucil is planning now for next major forecast for the Twin Cities region (2000-2040). Th objective is to have a disaggregate micro-simulation model that incorporates discrete choice methods, and that can interface with the Council's transportation model. Questions about the Council's hiring process can be addressed to Brenda McCoy, Human Resources, HR.Team3@metc.state.mn.us -- =================================================================================== 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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