ESSA newsletter 119 - 04/05/2007 -> 04/12/2007

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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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Second Life: Your World Your Imagination
"Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,333,978 people from around the globe..."
URL: http://secondlife.com

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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Fourth European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA'07), Toulouse, France. Deadline Extended: 14th April, 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.irit.fr/essa2007
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CfP: 2007 Fall AAAI Symposium - Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington, DC, November 8­-11, 2007
For more informaton visit: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php
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CfP: The Fifth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 2007), September 24-26, 2007, Leipzig, Germany
For more information visit: http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/mates07/
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CfP: Third International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 7-9, 2007
For more information visit: http://ess.si.umich.edu/
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CfP: International Conference on Network Science (NETSCI-2007), New York Hall of Science, New York City,  May 20-25, 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.nd.edu/~netsci
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CfP: Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston MA, October 28-November 2, 2007.
For more information visit: http://necsi.org/events/iccs7
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
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New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), vol. 10, no.2, available online
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html
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Caveats for the Use of Citation Indicators in Research and Journal Evaluations by Loyet Leydesdorrf.
Preprint pdf <http://www.leydesdorff.net/cit_indicators/cit_indicators.pdf>
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4. Job opportunities (including PhD positions and Research Schools)
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ISTC/CNR offers Research Fellowships in Rome, Italy
ISTC-LABSS has openings for the right individuals to join a dynamic and multidisciplinary team. These are key positions in our expanding group, contributing to our flagship projects.
We are looking for individuals with expertise in  agent-based modeling and social simulation for specialised projects in norm innovation and reputation systems
LABSS website: http://labss.istc.cnr.it/
Contact: Riccardo Bianchi (riccardo.r.bianchi@gmail.com)
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The Macaulay Institute: Positions available for Climate change and land use
For more information visit: http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/jobs/
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The department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra is advertising two vacancies. One of the research areas of the Department is Emergence and Complexity (http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/ ecos/), but the vacancies are not tied to a specific research topic.
For further information contact Diana Vieira divieira@dei.uc.pt
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