ESSA newsletter 111 - 02/08/2007 -> 02/15/2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KDD Cup and Workshop 2007, is the first and the oldest data mining competition, and is an integral part of the annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). For more information visit: http://www.cs.uic.edu/Netflix-KDD-Cup-2007 -- The Social Life of Books, For more information visit: http://www.orgnet.com/booknet.html , http://www.orgnet.com/divided.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 -- Cognitio 2007, Connected Minds : Cognition and Interaction in the Social World, Young researchers conference in cognitive science, Montreal, June 15th-17th, 2007. For more information visit: http://cognitio.uqam.ca -- The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL2007), Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007. For more information visit: http://www.it.bond.edu.au/acal2007/ -- Advanced Simulation Workshop, Koblenz, 19-23 March 2007, Lecturers: Klaus Troitzsch, Nigel Gilbert, Michael Möhring For more information visit: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGTroitzsch/Teaching/current_teaching/ZUMA-ASW -- 1st European DAAAM International Young Researchers´ and Scientists´ Conference, in parallel to the 18th DAAAM International Symposium at University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 24-27th October 2007 For more information visit: http://www.daaam.com/daaam/Young/Young-2007.htm -- 18th DAAAM International Symposium "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Creativity, Responsibility, and Ethics of Engineers", University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 24-27th October 2007 For more information visit: http://www.daaam.com/daaam/Symposium/DAAAM-2007.htm -- Social Learning in Embodied Agents, an European conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, 10th September 2007. For more information visit: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/slea/index.html -- SASO 2007, International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007. For more information visit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ -- 15th Annual Snowflake Conference, Dynamical Systems Thinking in Science and Society, March 29 - April 2, 2007,Puerto Rico. For more information visit: http://www.blueberry-brain.org/winterchaos/Winter%20Chaos%202007.htm -- ESWC 2007 Workshop, Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0, located at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2007, June 6-7, 2007 - Innsbruck, Austria. For more information visit: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/eswc2007/ -- =================================================================================== 3. Recent Publications and Discussion Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for special issue of Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) titled: Modelling Related to Poverty and Human Development. For more information visit: http://indecs.znanost.org/ -- Recommendation/Reputation Mechanisms For more information visit: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/cdell/reputation.html -- Online Opinion Forums: The Emerging Power of Word-of-Mouse For more information visit: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/cdell/opinionforums.html -- Shay David, Six Degrees of Reputation: The Use and Abuse of Online Review and Recommendation Systems, Yale University, November 2005. -- 4 Economic Papers on Cognitive and Behavioural Economics For more information visit:http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-02-03 -- Slater M, Antley A, Davison A, Swapp D, Guger C, Barker, C., Pistrang, N., Sanchez-Vives, M.V. (2006) A Virtual Reprise of the Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiments. PLoS ONE 1(1): e39. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000039 (Videos, Images available) For more information visit: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vr/Projects/Presencia/MilgramVR/ -- e-newsletter on Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence, Volume 3, Number 2, February 2007. For more information visit: http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv03n02.html -- Loet Leydesdorff, Mapping the Knowledge Structures in Patents using Co-classifications, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 2007. For more information visit: http://www.leydesdorff.net/wipo06/index.htm -- Snijders, Tom A.B., Steglich, Christian E.G., and Schweinberger, Michael, Modeling the co-evolution of networks and behavior. Longitudinal models in the behavioral and related sciences, edited by Kees van Montfort, Han Oud and Albert Satorra; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007. -- =================================================================================== 4. Job opportunities (including PhD positions) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- =================================================================================== 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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