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1. By the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities (including PhD opportunities and Research Schools)
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1. By the way ...
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Swarm participates in Google Summer of Code 2007:
Students accepted to the program can get paid by Google to spend the summer doing code
development related to Swarm.
For more information visit:  http://code.google.com/soc/ and: http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442
A list of ideas for work on Swarm at: http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:_IdeasList
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Set of programs for use in class (simulation visualization, network analysis)
For more information visit: http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/coauth/index.htm
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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ECM_MAI 2007, EXTENDING COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE MODELLING TO ISSUES OF MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION,  in conjunction with ICAI’07, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (June 25-28, 2007)
For more information visit:  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/ICAI07/workshops_sessions
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The 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: ESSA 2007, Fourth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association, September 10-14, 2007, Toulouse, France.
For more information visit: http://www.irit.fr/essa2007
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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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CfP: Workshop on agent-based models of market dynamics and consumer behaviour, August 22, 2007, Groningen, The Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/medewerkers/w.jager/market%20dynamics/workshop%20complexity%20in%20markets.htm
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CfP: Transportation & Social Interactions, October 14-16 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/frontiers/dev/2007/index.html
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CfP: Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, November 5-7, 2007, Piscataway, NJ, USA
For more information visit: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
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Sebastiano A. Delre · Wander Jager · Marco A. Janssen, " Diffusion dynamics in small-world networks with heterogeneous consumers" Comput Math Organiz Theor (2007) 13:185--202
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Book: "Worldviews, Science and Us: Philosophy and Complexity", Edited by: Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts and Bruce Edmonds (2007)
Publishers webpage: http://www.worldscibooks.com/chaos/6372.html
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Call for book chapters contributions:The following two books are planned to be published by Springer-Verlag during 2007/2008: 

1. Soft Computing Applications in Business
2. Soft Computing Applications in Industry
For more information visit: http://www.bhanuprasad.org/chapters.html
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Latest issue of The Journal of Mathematical Sociology: , Volume 31 Issue 2 is now available at : (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=0022-250X&volume=31&issue=2&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email)
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8 new socio-economic papers (leadership, information distribution, co-dessision making)
For more information visit: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.asp?neplist=nepcdm2007-03-17
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4. Job opportunities (including PhD positions and Research Schools)
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Summer School on Collective Robots. Organized by the Portuguese Association in Artificial Intelligence, 27-31 of August 2007
For more information visit: http://eaia07.di.fc.ul.pt
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CASOS 2007 Summer Institute, June 25 - July 1, 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Engineering Hall - Singleton Room
For more information visit: http://casos.isri.cmu.edu/events/summer_institute/2007/
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The 2007 Institute on Computational Economics (ICE07), Chicago-Argonne Institute on Computational Economics, a nine-day summer program
for young scholars interested in applying computational methods to economics, and will be held at the University of Chicago from July 30 August 9, 2007.
For more information visit: http://ice.uchicago.edu/
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CMU is looking to hire several people into the CASOS center related to the work on social networks and multi-agent systems. For more information visit the position description bellow.
Java/C++ Programmer: https://secured.kenexa.com/cmu/cc/CCJobResultsAction.ss?command=ViewJobDetails&job_REQUISITION_NUMBER=2984
Portal and API programmer for Web tools: https://secured.kenexa.com/cmu/cc/CCJobResultsAction.ss?command=ViewJobDetails&job_REQUISITION_NUMBER=3045
Senior Software Engineer: https://secured.kenexa.com/cmu/cc/CCJobResultsAction.ss?command=ViewJobDetails&job_REQUISITION_NUMBER=3109
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