ESSA newsletter 112 - 02/15/2007 -> 02/21/2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!!! Notice: There were some technical problems with sending the newsletter, therefore the newsletter comes later than usual. Sorry for any inconvenience Bogdan Werth, Shah Jamal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. By the way ... 2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums 3. Proposal for session on Cognitive Agents and Social Behaviour at ESSA4 conference in Toulouse 4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers 5. Job opportunities (including PhD opportunities and Research Schools) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================================== 1. By the way ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sodarace is the online Olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit. For more information visit: http://sodarace.net/index.jspb -- The 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence Methods has started! For more information visit: http://www.neural-forecasting-competition.com/ =================================================================================== 2. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Science) ’41 Minitrack, January 7-10, 2008, Big Island, Hawaii, USA For more information visit: http://www.hicss.org) -- ARTIFICIAL ECONOMICS 2007, A Symposium on Agent-Based Computational Methods in Economics and Finance, Palermo (Italy), September 14-15 2007 For more information visit: http://www.ae2007.it -- CIEF 2007 (6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance), Marriott Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., July 15-22, 2007 For more information visit: http://www.jcis.org/track/cief/information.asp -- Call for participation: M2M 2007, 3rd International Model-2-Model Workshop, 15-16 March 2007, La Vieille Charite, Marseille, France. For more information visit: http://m2m2007.macaulay.ac.uk/ -- CfP - 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 -- Final Cfp - RGS - IBG Annual International Conference 2007 28 August - 31 August 2007, Royal Geographical Society, London: Enhancing Complex Social Simulations with Automata Systems For more information visit: http://www.rgs.org/AC2007 -- Extending Computational Cognitive Modelling to Issues of Multi-Agent Interaction (ECM_MAI 2007), in conjunction with ICAI’07 - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 25-28, 2007) For more information visit: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~oren/index-conf/confs_2000s.htm -- CfP - European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07), Dresden, October 1-5, 2007. For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden -- CfP - 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 -- CfP -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/ -- CfP - 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. Proposal for session on Cognitive Agents and Social Behaviour at ESSA4 conference in Toulouse ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From SIMSOC posting: Dear SIMSOC members and others that might be interested, Last December, Martin Helmhout and I organised a small workshop entitled ‘*Combining Cognitive Plausibility with Social Realism: Promises and Pitfalls of Multi-Agent Simulation*’. At this workshop a number of presentations focused on modeling cognitive social agents. The main question to be answered was how knowledge from the fields of cognitive psychology and social interaction could be integrated in simulation models. The enthusiasm of the participants, as well as the recent vivid discussions at the SIMSOC-mailing list suggest that this topic deserves more attention. Therefore, I would like to propose a session entitled ‘*Cognitive Agents and Social Behaviour’* to be held at the *ESSA 4 conference in Toulouse*. If you are willing to contribute to this session, please indicate the title of the session, e.g. ‘Cognitive agents and social behaviour’ when you sign in. (Further reading: Sun. R. (Ed. ), /Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation/, Cambridge University Press, 2006) With best regards, Kees Zoethout -- Dr. Kees Zoethout Assistant Professor Faculty of Management and Organization Dept. of Business Development, University of Groningen P.O.Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen tel: 0031 50 363 2648 / 363 6543 (secr.) URL: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/medewerkers/k.zoethout =================================================================================== 4. Recent Publications and Discussion Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for special issue on the International Journal on Agent Oriented Software Engineering: Modelling Languages for Agent Systems. For any questions contact either of the special guest editors at Haris Mouratidis or Marc-Philippe Huget. -- 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/ -- Mapping the Knowledge Structures in Patents using Co-classifications by Loet Leydesdorff http://www.leydesdorff.net/wipo06/index.htm -- 9 papers on Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-02-10 =================================================================================== 5. Job opportunities (including PhD positions and Research Schools) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- PREPARE, the "Priority European Programme in Advanced Regional Economics" offers an integrated structure of training, active participation, and discussion for PhD students and young researchers in regional science. The programme is funded by the European Union through its Marie Curie Actions and is held in close cooperation with the European Regional Science Association (ERSA). For more information visit: http://www.ersa.org/prepare/ -- =================================================================================== 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. Please do not distribute further. | | To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Newsletter Editors: | | Shah Jamal Alam (shahcfpmorg) | | Bogdan Werth (bogdancfpmorg) | | Centre for Policy Modelling, | | Manchester Metropolitan University Business School | | www.cfpm.org | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|