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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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AP/ANICK JESDANUN, Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet
URL: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1610306,00.html
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The Top American Research Universities (according to yet another ranking)
URL: http://mup.asu.edu/research2006.pdf
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NetMiner v3.0 is released
For more information visist: http://www.netminer.com
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP Satellite workshop in conjunction with the next European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2007, Dresden, October 1-5), scheduled for October 4: "Enhancing Social Interaction: Recommender Systems, Reputation, P2P, Trust and Social Networks".
For more information visit: http://www.sg.ethz.ch/events/ECCS_satellite
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CfP: Engineering Environment-Mediated Multiagent Systems EEMMAS 2007: Satellite Conference of ECCS 2007, Dresden, Germany, October 1-5, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~distrinet/events/eemmas/2007/
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The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL2007) (Published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence- LNAI), Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.it.bond.edu.au/acal2007/
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Joint 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis at the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), August 12, 2007, San Jose, California.
For more information visit: http://workshops.socialnetworkanalysis.info/websnakdd2007/
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CfP: Fifth International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems (AESCS 2007) has been extended until May 13, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/AESCS2007/
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Call for Participation: First IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2007), 9-11 July 2007, Boston, Mass., USA
For more information visit: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Talks
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New Issue of Physica A (Vol 378 No. 1): Social network analysis: Measuring tools, structures and dynamics,
Edited by A. Lorincz, N. Gilbert, and R. Goolsby
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784371
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New issue of Social Networks, Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 169-348 (May 2007) available at Science Direct.
Special Section: Advances in Exponential Random Graph (p*) Models Edited by Garry Robins and Martina Morris
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733
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Raissa M. D'Souza, Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Noam Berger, and Robert D. Kleinberg "Emergence of tempered preferential attachment from optimization" PNAS published March 29, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0606779104 ( Computer Sciences )
URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0606779104v1
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Mark S. Handcock, Krista Gile, "Modeling Social Networks with Sampled or Missing Data", Working Paper no. 75, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, June 11, 2002; Revised April 28, 2007
URL: http://www.csde.washington.edu/~handcock/wp75.pdf
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Small, M.L. (2007), Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter?, Social Science Quarterly, Volume 88, Issue 2, pp. 320-343
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2007.00460.x
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CfP: Ecological Complexity http://ees.elsevier.com/ecocom/ is pleased to announce a special issue on:  Environmental micro-simulation: From data approximation to theory assessment.
For more information contact guest editors Tal Svoray (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tsvoray@bgu.ac.il) and Itzhak Benenson (Tel Aviv University, bennya@post.tau.ac.il)
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4. Job opportunities, PhD positions and research schools ...
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Funded PhD places are available in the department of Informatics, University of Sussex. Studentships are available in various areas of Computer Science, AI and Cognitive Science including adaptive systems, Alife, bioinformatics, bio-robotics, computational neuroscience and machine learning.
For more information visit: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/1-2-2.html
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Opportunity for 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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Second International Summer School on Collective Intelligence and Evolution August 20-24 2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www.decoi2007.nl/
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