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ESSA newsletter 121 - 04/20/2007 -> 04/26/2007
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Important
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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
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!!! Please send news and related contributions to the editors!!!
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1. By the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities
5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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1. By the way ...
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The Clair Library: Clair 1.0
"The Clair library is intended to simplify a number of generic tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR). Its architecture also allows for external software to be plugged in with very little effort. Two distributions of the Clair library are available: Clairlib-core, with essential functionality and minimal dependence on external software, and Clairlib-ext, with extended functionality that may be of interest to a smaller audience."
URL: http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/clairlib/
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Pajek 1.19 is available at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
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Online available courseware scientometrics; literature-based S&T indicators
Lesson 0: literature-based science indicators: patents and publications <http://www.leydesdorff.net/td/indicators.htm>
Lesson 1: Science Citation Index; downloading and processing <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson1.htm>
Lesson 2: text analysis <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson2.htm>
Lesson 3: journal structures <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson3.htm>
Lesson 4: centrality and latency <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson4.htm>
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Extended CfP: European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'07), October 1-5, 2007, Dresden, Germany (Deadline Extended: April 30, 2007)
For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden
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CfP: Social Learning in Embodied Agents: An European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) Workshop, September 10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
For more information visit: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/slea/index.html
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CfP: Fourth conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007), September 13/14, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland
For more information visit: http://www.ipmz.uzh.ch/asna
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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: 2007 Fall AAAI Symposium - Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington, DC, November 8-11, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php
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First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), 9-11 July 2007, Boston, Mass., USA
For mode information visit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
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Knowing Knowledge, Book by George Siemens
Book available online at http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/KnowingKnowledge/index.php/Main_Page
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Papers presented at the M2M 2007: Third International Workshop Model-to-Model Workshop, Marseille, France, 15-16 March 2007
available at: http://m2m2007.macaulay.ac.uk/m2m_programme.html
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Izquierdo, S.S. and Izquierdo, L.R. (2007), The impact of quality uncertainty without asymmetric information on market efficiency
Journal of Business Research. In Press. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01482963
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Izquierdo, L.R., Izquierdo, S.S., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2007), Transient and asymptotic dynamics of reinforcement learning in games
Games and Economic Behavior. In Press. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0899825
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Call for papers: Special issue of the International Journal of SEMIOTICA: Special issue on Organizational Semiotics (OS) and Social Simulation (SocSim)
Guest-editors: René J. Jorna and Henk Gazendam (University of Groningen)
Time schedule: - Interested contributors are requested to submit an abstract (one A4) before May 15th 2007;
- Full papers should be submitted by October 1st 2007 (max 25 A4, font 11, space 1,5);
- Final acceptance of the contributions: January 15th 2008;
- Revised papers to be received: March 1st 2008.
For more information: Email: r.j.j.m.jorna@rug.nl or henk@gazendam.net
Website Jorna: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/medewerkers/r.j.j.m.jorna/curricul.html
Semiotica website: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_409_DEU_h.htm
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4. Job opportunities
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Senior Research Software Engineer: Centre for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University
Description: 'This position requires research as well as management and direction of software development projects in the CASOS lab. Primary responsibility will be to take high-level research goals from the project's principal investigator and establish intermediate project goals, task breakdowns, and schedules; monitor group activity to ensure that tasks are complete and goals met; draft presentations and reports. As part of the process, this position will execute tasks through a combination of directing and personally executing software design, development, testing, evaluation of software performance and publication of significant results in established conference proceedings and journals. Additional
responsibilities include, collecting material for and writing monthly or annual reports, supporting proposal writing, staff supervision in the
Director's absence, sponsor client meetings, and general research and meeting support.'
'Those interested should send a vita and cover letter to Dr. Kathleen Carley kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu, and cc it to Janice Kusmierek
<janicek@cs.cmu.edu>. Applicants should also enter information through the cmu on line system - Ms. Kusmierek can help with that'
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Opportunity for the following PhD topic funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) of the UK:
Title: Searching for sustainable land management strategies aimed at decoupling greenhouse gas emissions from economic performance
Supervisors: Dr Robin Matthews, Macaulay Institute (r.matthews@macaulay.ac.uk), Professor Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen (pete.smith@abdn.ac.uk)
Please contact Dr Robin Matthews or Professor Pete Smith for further details and for an application form.
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ISTC/CNR offers Research Fellowships in Rome, Italy
1. EMIL, "EMergence In the Loop: simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation" (http://emil.istc.cnr.it/)
2. eRep: Social Knowledge for e-Governance (http://megatron.iiia.csic.es/eRep/)
To apply to either position or for an internship, send an email to Riccardo Bianchi (riccardo.r.bianchi@gmail.com).
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5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia ...
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The tenth ZUMA Simulation Workshop will be held from July 23 to 27, 2007, at the Koblenz Campus of Koblenz-Landau University, Germany.
This will be a workshop on the techniques of developing computer simulations to help with the exploration and understanding of social and economic issues. All instruction is in English. Lecturers: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Nigel Gilbert and Michael Moehring
For more information visit: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGTroitzsch/Teaching/current_teaching/ZUMA
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ICCM 2007 Doctoral Consortium Call: July 26, 2007, Submission Deadline: April 20, 2007, at Eight International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM)
For more information visit: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/doctorial_consortium
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Summer School: New Trends in Computational Finance and Economics, 3 - 7 September 2007, Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex
For more information visit: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ccfea/summerschool/
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Polnet Summer School on the Analysis of Political and Managerial Networks, Date: June 17-22, 2007, Participation Fee: 350 Euro, Location: Tilburg University, the Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www.polnet-school.info
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==================================================================================
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.
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 and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities
5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===================================================================================
1. By the way ...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Clair Library: Clair 1.0
"The Clair library is intended to simplify a number of generic tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR). Its architecture also allows for external software to be plugged in with very little effort. Two distributions of the Clair library are available: Clairlib-core, with essential functionality and minimal dependence on external software, and Clairlib-ext, with extended functionality that may be of interest to a smaller audience."
URL: http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/clairlib/
--
Pajek 1.19 is available at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/
--
Online available courseware scientometrics; literature-based S&T indicators
Lesson 0: literature-based science indicators: patents and publications <http://www.leydesdorff.net/td/indicators.htm>
Lesson 1: Science Citation Index; downloading and processing <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson1.htm>
Lesson 2: text analysis <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson2.htm>
Lesson 3: journal structures <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson3.htm>
Lesson 4: centrality and latency <http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson4.htm>
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Extended CfP: European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'07), October 1-5, 2007, Dresden, Germany (Deadline Extended: April 30, 2007)
For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden
--
CfP: Social Learning in Embodied Agents: An European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007) Workshop, September 10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
For more information visit: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/slea/index.html
--
CfP: Fourth conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007), September 13/14, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland
For more information visit: http://www.ipmz.uzh.ch/asna
--
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/
--
CfP: 2007 Fall AAAI Symposium - Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington, DC, November 8-11, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07.php
--
First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), 9-11 July 2007, Boston, Mass., USA
For mode information visit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
--
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Knowing Knowledge, Book by George Siemens
Book available online at http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/KnowingKnowledge/index.php/Main_Page
--
Papers presented at the M2M 2007: Third International Workshop Model-to-Model Workshop, Marseille, France, 15-16 March 2007
available at: http://m2m2007.macaulay.ac.uk/m2m_programme.html
--
Izquierdo, S.S. and Izquierdo, L.R. (2007), The impact of quality uncertainty without asymmetric information on market efficiency
Journal of Business Research. In Press. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01482963
--
Izquierdo, L.R., Izquierdo, S.S., Gotts, N.M. and Polhill, J.G. (2007), Transient and asymptotic dynamics of reinforcement learning in games
Games and Economic Behavior. In Press. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0899825
--
Call for papers: Special issue of the International Journal of SEMIOTICA: Special issue on Organizational Semiotics (OS) and Social Simulation (SocSim)
Guest-editors: René J. Jorna and Henk Gazendam (University of Groningen)
Time schedule: - Interested contributors are requested to submit an abstract (one A4) before May 15th 2007;
- Full papers should be submitted by October 1st 2007 (max 25 A4, font 11, space 1,5);
- Final acceptance of the contributions: January 15th 2008;
- Revised papers to be received: March 1st 2008.
For more information: Email: r.j.j.m.jorna@rug.nl or henk@gazendam.net
Website Jorna: http://www.bdk.rug.nl/medewerkers/r.j.j.m.jorna/curricul.html
Semiotica website: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_409_DEU_h.htm
--
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4. Job opportunities
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Senior Research Software Engineer: Centre for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS), Carnegie Mellon University
Description: 'This position requires research as well as management and direction of software development projects in the CASOS lab. Primary responsibility will be to take high-level research goals from the project's principal investigator and establish intermediate project goals, task breakdowns, and schedules; monitor group activity to ensure that tasks are complete and goals met; draft presentations and reports. As part of the process, this position will execute tasks through a combination of directing and personally executing software design, development, testing, evaluation of software performance and publication of significant results in established conference proceedings and journals. Additional
responsibilities include, collecting material for and writing monthly or annual reports, supporting proposal writing, staff supervision in the
Director's absence, sponsor client meetings, and general research and meeting support.'
'Those interested should send a vita and cover letter to Dr. Kathleen Carley kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu, and cc it to Janice Kusmierek
<janicek@cs.cmu.edu>. Applicants should also enter information through the cmu on line system - Ms. Kusmierek can help with that'
--
Opportunity for the following PhD topic funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) of the UK:
Title: Searching for sustainable land management strategies aimed at decoupling greenhouse gas emissions from economic performance
Supervisors: Dr Robin Matthews, Macaulay Institute (r.matthews@macaulay.ac.uk), Professor Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen (pete.smith@abdn.ac.uk)
Please contact Dr Robin Matthews or Professor Pete Smith for further details and for an application form.
--
ISTC/CNR offers Research Fellowships in Rome, Italy
1. EMIL, "EMergence In the Loop: simulating the two way dynamics of norm innovation" (http://emil.istc.cnr.it/)
2. eRep: Social Knowledge for e-Governance (http://megatron.iiia.csic.es/eRep/)
To apply to either position or for an internship, send an email to Riccardo Bianchi (riccardo.r.bianchi@gmail.com).
--
===================================================================================
5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia ...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The tenth ZUMA Simulation Workshop will be held from July 23 to 27, 2007, at the Koblenz Campus of Koblenz-Landau University, Germany.
This will be a workshop on the techniques of developing computer simulations to help with the exploration and understanding of social and economic issues. All instruction is in English. Lecturers: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Nigel Gilbert and Michael Moehring
For more information visit: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGTroitzsch/Teaching/current_teaching/ZUMA
--
ICCM 2007 Doctoral Consortium Call: July 26, 2007, Submission Deadline: April 20, 2007, at Eight International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM)
For more information visit: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/iccm2007.org/doctorial_consortium
--
Summer School: New Trends in Computational Finance and Economics, 3 - 7 September 2007, Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex
For more information visit: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ccfea/summerschool/
--
Polnet Summer School on the Analysis of Political and Managerial Networks, Date: June 17-22, 2007, Participation Fee: 350 Euro, Location: Tilburg University, the Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www.polnet-school.info
--
==================================================================================
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.
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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 (shah<at>cfpm<dot>org) Bogdan Werth (bogdan<at>cfpm<dot>org) Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School www.cfpm.org |
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