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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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The new ESSA website is now up and running. We hope that everything works as before, but even better. The new system allows all members of ESSA to post contents and to participate in building Wikis. Wikis will also be used as platforms for Special Interest Groups (two of them, Policy and Marketing, are already open, Gender will follow soon).
ESSA Portal: http://www.essa.eu.org/
Contact: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Treasurer and Webmaster, E-mail: kgt@uni-koblenz.de
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2. By the way ...
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Winners of the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award for 2007.
- J. S. Rosenschein and M. R. Genesereth (1985), "Deals Among Rational Agents", The Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, California, August 1985, pages 91-99.
- A. Rao and M. Georgeff (1991), "Modelling rational agents within a BDI-architecture" Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'91) pp.473-484.
- B. J. Grosz and S. Kraus (1996), "Collaborative Plans for Complex Group Actions" Artificial Intelligence 86, pages 269-358.
(The awards will be presented at AAMAS-07)
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Call for participation: Tutorial on Participatory Design of Multi-agent Systems, at AAMAS'07, May 15th 2007, 8AM-12AM
For more information visit: http://honiden-lab.ex.nii.ac.jp/~paul/tutorial
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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/
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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
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CfP: ESHIA/WEHIA 2007, International Conference on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents,
Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia USA June 17-20 2007
For more information visit: http://www.es-hia.org/contents1/information/ESHIA2007.pdf
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Extended CfP: NAACSOS 2007 Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science
For more information visit: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2007/
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Extended CfP: ECM_MAI 2007 Extending Computational Cognitive Modeling to Issues of Multi-agent Interaction
For more information visit: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/ICAI07/ECM_MAI_2007.pdf
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CfP: European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07), Dresden, October 1-5, 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden
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Call for abstracts: Cognitio 2007 Connected Minds : Cognition and Interaction in the Social World
Young researchers conference in cognitive science, Montreal, June 15th-17th, 2007
For more information visit: http://cognitio.uqam.ca
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CfP: The Second International Workshop on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems (EEDAS 2007)
For more information visit: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~distrinet/events/eedas/2007/
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3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) will be held in Pune, INDIA during December 17-19 2007.

For more information visit: http://www.iiconference.org
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Cfp: the Journal INDECS announces the special issue Modelling Related to Poverty and Human Development, to be released as INDECS 5(2).
For more information visit: http://indecs.znanost.org/ or contact indecs@znanost.org
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
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Talks: NECSI Program: Leading with Confidence in the Face of Uncertainty, May 17-18, 2007
For more information visit: http://necsi.org/events/exec2007.html
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Talks: NetSci 2007, International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, May 20-25, 2007,
to be held at The New York Hall of Science, New York City.
For more information visit: http://www.nd.edu/~netsci/
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Talks: NCeSS Showcase - New Research Tools for Social Scientists: Over the last 3 years the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science
(www.ncess.ac.uk) has co-ordinated the development of new research tools which harness the power of Grid computing for social scientists.
For more information visit: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/showcase/
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10 news papers on Collective Decision-Making
For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-03-03
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Publications from eRep project (advances of reputation theory and technology for muli-agent systems)
For more information visit: http://megatron.iiia.csic.es/eRep/
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Current issue of the free monthly newsletter on critical global issues at the culure-technology-relilgion interface
For more information visit: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n03.html

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5. Job opportunities (including PhD positions and Research Schools)
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PostDoc Position: University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology and Center for the Study of Complex Systems

A postdoc position is available in the Theoretical Epidemiology group at University of Michigan. The postdoc will work with Dr. James
Koopman in the area of infection spread through populations via environmental intermediates to support public health policy
decisions. Applications due May 1. Contact: Dr. James Koopman at jkoopman@umich.edu
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A 2.5 years post-doc position is available at UNSW@ADFA in Australia. The selection criteria list will be
available through the human resources website from Wednesday onwards. The website is at http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/admin/hr/emp_opps/index.html
Inquiries regarding the appointment should be directed to A/Prof Hussein Abbass on (02) 6268 9555 or h.abbass@adfa.edu.au
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Applications are being taken for a postdoc position in the CASOS group at Carnegie Mellon in the area of social networks and link analysis.
Interested applicants should send their vita and a letter of interest to Dr. Kathleen M. Carley at <kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu>.  The material should be CC'ld to Janice  Kusmierek <janicek@cs.cmu.edu>.
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