ESSA newsletter 105 - 12/15/2006 -> 12/21/2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 4. Recent publications 5. Job opportunities (including PhD positions) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ 1. ESSA Communications ---------------------------------------------------------------- .-"``"-. /______; \ {_______}\| (/ a a \)(_) (.-.).-.) __________ooo__( ^ )______________ / '-.___.-' \ | ESSA Newsletter Editors | | would like to wish everyone | | Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year | | Shah Jamal & Bogdan Werth | \____________________________ooo________ / |_ | _| \___|___/ {___|___} |_ | _| /-'Y'-\ (__/ \__) Our next newsletter is due to arrive in your mailbox next year ;-) ================================================================ 2. By The Way ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Novel graph visualization, interesting approach to visualisation of social networks and evolutionary processes. For more information visit: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DataMining/~3/37386711/novel_graph_vis.html -- These of you who teach simulation might find this publication interesting as introductory paper. Macal M.C., North M., Tutuorial on Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation. -- For a little pre-holiday networking for networkers fun, we created a google mash-up map for social networkers. For more information visit: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2006/12/creating_the_first_global_social_network_researchers_google_maps_mash_up.html -- Software for qualitative data analysis: - Atlas-ti (http://www.atlasti.com/networkTools.html) - QSR N6 (http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/productoverview/product_overview.htm) - Decision Explorer (http://www.banxia.com/demain.html) - Pajek/SVG (http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/SVGanim/default.htm) - ANSWR (http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/tools/software.asp) - Commetrics (www.commetrix.de) -- ================================================================ 3. 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 -- 7th POLNET Summer School on the Analysis of Political and Managerial Networks, Tilburg University, the Netherlands June 17-22, 2007, Participation Fee: 350 Euro, Application Deadline: March 31, 2007, For more information visit: www.polnet-school.info/ -- MABS 07: Eighth International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, May 14-15, 2007, Co-located with the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS 2007 For more information visit: http://www.aamas2007.org/index.html and http://cfpm.org/MABS07/ -- 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 more information visit: http://www.ia.urjc.es/COIN2007 -- 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 -- Euromedia 2007, 13th Annual Euromedia Conference, Call for Papers, April 25-27, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands. For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/147 -- 4th ECPR General Conference, 6-8 September 2007, Pisa, Standing Group: "Forms of Participation", Quantitative and qualitative methods for the study of new and old forms of political participation. For more information visit: http://www.sam.kau.se/stv/participation/pisa_2007/index.htm -- SociUM Workshop, 1st Workshop on "Adaptation and Personalisation in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities" in conjuction with the 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007), Corfu, Greece, 25-29 June, 2007. For more information visit: http://tel.cti.gr/socium/ -- UM 2007, 11th International Conference on User Modeling, Corfu, Greece, 25-29 June, 2007. For more information visit: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/ -- The 4th UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems, April 25th - April 29th, 2007, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA. For more information visit: http://www.hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm -- ================================================================ 4. Recent Publications ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Economic Papers: Collective Decision Making URL: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2006-12-16 -- Individual-based Ecological Methods: Amano, T., K. Ushiyama, S. Moriguchi, G. Fujita, and H. Higuchi. 2006. Decision-making in group foragers with incomplete information: test of individual-based model in geese. Ecological Monographs 76:601-616. -- Goss-Custard, J., N. H. K. Burton, N. A. Clark, P. N. Ferns, S. McGrorty, C. J. Reading, M. M. Rehfisch, R. A. Stillman, I. Townend, A. D. West, and D. H. Worrall. 2006. Test of a behavior-based individual-based model: response of shorebird mortality to habitat loss. Ecological Applications 16:2215-2222. -- Syllabi & materials related to social network analysis from faculty from around the world. URL: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov/html/sna_courses_events.htm -- New issue of international journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization, Volume 8 Number 4, 2006 Special Issue: Complexity & Leadership, Editors: Jeffrey A. Goldstein & James K. Hazy. URL: (E:CO - http://emergence.org) -- ================================================================ 5.Job opportunities ---------------------------------------------------------------- Research Fellowship - Modelling of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville. For further details: Dr Sean Connolly, Phone: +61 7 4781 4242, e-mail: Sean.Connolly@jcu.edu.au -- See the announcement at http://netcentriccampaigns.org/node/94 and below. Please share with anyone who might be interested. This could be a great way for someone just starting out to get some real-world experience. -- ================================================================ 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 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|