ESSA newsletter 104 - 12/08/2006 -> 12/14 /2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ESSA Communications 2. By the way... 3. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums 3.1 Lectures, Talks 4. Recent publications 4.1 Books 4.2 Publication 5. Job opportunities (including PhD positions) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ 1. ESSA Communications ---------------------------------------------------------------- ESSA 2007 4th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association September 10-14, 2007 Manufacture des Tabacs Toulouse University of Social Sciences Toulouse, France http://www.irit.fr/essa2007 ================================================================ 2. By The Way ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- For all the bookmarking fans, you might be interested in the collection of SNA publications and bookmarks at http://www.bibsonomy.org/tag/sna. -- Breve Simulation Environment version 2.5. breve is an open-source 3D software simulation package for artificial life, multi-agent systems, robotics and artificial intelligence research. This release features major optimizations and stability improvements, improved simulation-to-simulation networking, and improvements to the built-in programming language. For more details visit: http://www.spiderland.org/breve -- ================================================================ 3. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums ---------------------------------------------------------------- The AAMAS'07 Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems, (COIN@AAMAS'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 14 or 15, 2007. For further details: http://www.ia.urjc.es/COIN2007 -- CALL FOR CHAPTERS: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE, Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Proposal Submission Deadline: February 4, 2007, Full Chapter Due: April 30, 2007. For further details: Ang Yang (A.YANG@ADFA.EDU.AU) -- 2nd CFP: Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence, Symposium on Artificial Societies for Ambient Intelligence to be held at the AISB Convention, Newcastle, UK, 2-5 April 2007. For more details visit: http://asami07.cs.rhul.ac.uk/ -- Just a quick reminder that the GAMEON ASIA 2007 and ASTEC 2007, at Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan conferences abstract deadline is on December 15. For more details visit: ASTEC 2007( http://85.255.195.219/cms/?q=node/74 ) GAMEON ASIA 2007 ( http://85.255.195.219/cms/index.php?q=node/71 ) -- 21-st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2007,4-6th June, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague Conference Center. For more details visit: http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2007/index.html -- NAACL/HLT 2007 Workshop, Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing, Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007, Regular paper submission deadline: January 29 For more details visit: http://www.textgraphs.org/ws07 -- A call to social network scholars also working or interested in philosophy. We would like to put a session for the 2007 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference 1-6 May, 2007 in Corfu, Greece, on a philosophical focus in the research on social networks. For more details: Harald Katzmair (harald.katzmair@fas.at), Moses Boudourides (Moses.Boudourides@gmail.com) -- NECSI Winter School on Complex Systems and Methods. We have funding for a limited number of partial scholarships for the NECSI Winter School courses on complex systems concepts and methods. For more details visit: http://necsi.org/education/twoweek/winter07.html -- CALL FOR TUTORIALS, EASSS 2007. The ninth edition of the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS'07) will take place at Durham University, UK, 27-31 August 2007 For more details visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/EASSS07/ -------------------------------- 3.1 Lectures, Talks -------------------------------- Talk on "The co-evolution of socio-technological networks" by Alessandro Vespignani (Professor, School of Informatics, Dept. of Physics, Center for Biocomplexity, Indiana University) at University of Michigan, West Hall 411, Thursday Dec. 7th 12-1:30 For more details visit: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/netseminar ================================================================ 4. Recent Publications ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- 4.1 Books -------------------------------- Call for chapters, EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE, Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Proposal Submission Deadline: February 4, 2007, Full Chapter Due: April 30, 2007. For more information visit: http://www.springer.com/west/home/engineering?SGWID=4-175-69-173623546-0 -------------------------------- 4.2 Publications -------------------------------- New issue of Emergence: Complexity and Organization (vol. 8, no. 4)now available For more information visit: http://www.emergence.org -- Tutorial on social networks: Izquierdo, Luis R. and Hanneman, Robert A. (2006), Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Social Networks Using Mathematica. Published in digital form at http://www.luis.izquierdo.name (text document and Mathematica notebook) -- Econophysics Forum, a selection of papers in the field of interdisciplinary physics. For more information visit: http://www.unifr.ch/econophysics -- L. Dall'Asta, I. Alvarez-Hamelin, A. Barrat, A. Vazquez and A.Vespignani, Exploring networks with trace-route-like probes: theory and simulations, Theoretical Computer Science 355, 6-24 (2006) URL: http://alexves.googlepages.com/Theocompsci.pdf -- C. Esther, Helping young students to model complex problems. URL: http://istresults.cordis.europa.eu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/id/89010 -- Solidarity, Sustainability and Religious Violance, Vol.2, Number 12, Dez 06. URL: http://www.pelican-consulting.com/solisustv02n12.html -- ================================================================ 5.Job opportunities ---------------------------------------------------------------- Two Assistant Professors in Institutions, Society and the Environment. The School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in the area of institutions, society and the environment. For further details: Dr. Marco A. Janssen (Marco.Janssen@asu.edu) URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~majansse/ -- PhD Scholarship, UNSW and CSIRO Collaboration, $26K tax free per annum. Topic: Multi-agent spatial modeling of foot-and-mouth disease. Location: School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences (PEMS) and the Defence and Security Applications Research Centre (DSA), University of New South Wales, Canberra Campus, Australia. For more details: Dr Amy L. Griffin, a.griffin@adfa.edu.au. ================================================================ 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. 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