ESSA newsletter 107 - 1/11/2007 -> 1/17/2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 4. Job opportunities and Summer Schools (including PhD positions) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================================================================================== 1. By the way... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Ph.D. student in physics at Harvard University has developed software that is designed to help students and other users of Wikipedia quickly find more information about a subject. For details visit: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10849-wikipedia-links-used-to-build-smart-reading-lists.html -- =================================================================================== 2. Conferences, CfPs, Research Schools and Symposiums ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, Paper submission deadline: 05th February, 2007 For details visit: http://cfpm.org/MABS07/ -- 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 details visit: http://www.irit.fr/essa2007 -- 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 details visit: http://www.ia.urjc.es/COIN2007 -- NAACSOS 2007: North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Sciences For details visit: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/ -- The Fifth International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems at the Annual Conference of PAAA (Pacific-Asian Association for Agent-based Approach in Social Sciences), International Conference Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 29-30, 2007 For details visit: http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/nishiwaseda.html http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/AESCS2007/ -- 2nd CfP for the 13th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, to be held in Montreal, June 14 through 16, 2007 For details visit: http://web.hec.ca/CEF2007/ -- The 2007 Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) will be held during 17-19 of December 2007 in Pune, India. For details visit: http://www.iiconference.org -- Euromedia 2007, 13th Annual Euromedia Conference, Call for Papers, April 25-27, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands. For details visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/147 -- EURAM 2007: Towards a complexity science-based theory of geographical clusters For details visit: http://www.euram2007.org -- =================================================================================== 3. Recent Publications ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book: Oudeyer, P-Y. (2006) Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech, Studies in the Evolution of Language, Oxford University Press. (Translation by James R. Hurford). For details visit: http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py -- New 'complexity' book: Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from the North and South, edited by Fritjof Capra, Alicia Juarrero, Pedro Sotolongo and Jacco van Uden. The book will go on general sale on 16th Jnuary (2007) For details visit: http://isce.edu/Reframing_Complexity -- Special Issue of Emergence: Complexity and Organization (E:CO http://emergence.org ), Leadership and Complexity co-edited by Jeffrey Goldstein and James K. Hazy, Includes four agent-based-models regarding leadership in organizations. -- NEP: New Economics Papers: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics For details visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-01-06 -- =================================================================================== 4. Job opportunities (including PhD positions) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PhD in Computational Social Science, George Mason University. More information about the program and center is available at: http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/ For specific questions related to the graduate program, contact Dawn Parker, acting director for the CSS PhD program, at cssgrad@gmu.edu. Full application instructions are available at: http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/phd.php -- 2007 International Complex Systems Summer Schools, Santa Fe Institute For details visit: http://www.santafe.edu/education/indexCSSS.php -- =================================================================================== 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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