ESSA newsletter 113 - 02/22/2007 -> 03/01/2007 

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1. ESSA Communication ...

2. By the way ...

3. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums

4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers

5. Job opportunities (including PhD opportunities and Research Schools)

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1. ESSA Communication ...

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Proposal of a session entitled "Cognitive Agents and Social Behaviour" to be held at the ESSA 4th 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. For information: Dr. Kees Zoethout -- ===================================================================================

2. By the way ...

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Demonstration of a Virtual Reprise of Milgram Obedience Experiment: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vr/Projects/Presencia/MilgramVR/ -- AVROSS Survey for the the European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate General) about the adoption and use of eInfrastructure (cyberinfrastructure) in the social sciences and humanities. For more information visit: http://international.fhso.ch/avross/ -- CAQDAS Networking Project provides practical support, training and information in the use of a range of software programs designed to assist qualitative data analysis. For more information visit: http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ -- First Woman to Receive ACM Turing Award For more information visit: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-turing21feb21,1,4359007.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true -- ===================================================================================

3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions

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Call for Papers on the Culture of Remote/Mobile Work to produce a book or special journal issue on this topic; Organized by Brigitte Jordan, Julia Gluesing and Tracy Meerwarth. For more interest: tlm@consbrgs.com.

-- The third annual DYNARE meeting, 10-11, 2007, in Lausanne, Switzerland. For more interest visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/dynare

-- NECSI Summer School, June 11-22, 2007, MIT, Cambridge, MA For more information visit: http://necsi.org/events/summer2007.html

-- 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 - European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07), Dresden, October 1-5, 2007. For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden

-- 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

-- 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

-- Call for abstracts - International Workshop on Computational and Financial Econometrics, 20-22 April 2007, Geneva, Switzerland For more information visit: http://www.csdassn.org/europe/CFE07

-- CfP - 4th International Conference on Computational Management Science, April 20-22, 2007, Geneva For more information visit: http://www.cms2007.unige.ch/

-- CfP - MASHS-2007: Computational Methods for Modelling and leArning in Social and Human Sciences, Brest, France May 10-11, 2007 For more information visit: http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/mashs-2007/

-- Call for Papers for "Abuse and Misuse of Social Agents", Special Issue of Interacting with Computers For more information visit: http://www.agentabuse.org/

-- 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. -- ===================================================================================

4. Recent Publications and Discussion Papers

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Loet Leydesdorff, Iina Hellsten, Measuring the Meaning of Words in Contexts: An automated analysis of controversies about 'Monarch butterflies,' 'Frankenfoods,' and 'stem cells.' Scientometrics 67(2), 2006, 231-258.

-- Book "Social emergence: Societies as complex systems", Keith Sawyer. For more information visit: www.keithsawyer.com. (go to Book link)

-- 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/

-- 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. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000039

-- Sun. R. (Ed. ), (2006) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, Cambridge University Press

-- 8 papers in NEP report on Collective Decision-Making For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-02-17 -- ===================================================================================

5. Job opportunities (including PhD positions and Research Schools)

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Summer internship program for undergraduates in the computational modeling area. For more information visit: http://www.arsc.edu/programs/interns/

-- A three-year post-doc position is available at the University of Bologna, Italy, for theoretical research on the dynamics of cultural evolution, with particular emphasis on the accumulation of cultural information and its adaptive value, and on the contact between cultures. The position is available immediately and will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found. The fellowship is sponsored by European Commission through the CULTAPTATION project (NEST initiative of FP6), comprising the University of Bologna, Stockholm University, the University of St. Andrews and Mälardalen University (Sweden). For more information, please send a CV and a letter of interest to stefano.ghirlanda@unibo.it. -- ===================================================================================

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.

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| Shah Jamal Alam (shah AT cfpmorg) |

| Bogdan Werth (bogdan AT cfpmorg) |

| Centre for Policy Modelling, |

| Manchester Metropolitan University Business School |

| www.cfpm.org |

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