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1. By the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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1. By the way ...
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Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers
For more information visit: http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6182707.html
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Tool called Commetrix to produce dynamic visualizations of community evolvement.
For information visit: www.commetrix.de
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Multi-Agents for modelling Complex Systems (MA4CS), October 5th or 6th, 2007, Satellite conference of the European Conference on Complex Systems  2007 (ECCS'07), Dresden, Germany , October 1-6, 2007
For more information visit: http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/hassas/MA4CS07/
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CfP:TAC Market Design - The CAT Tournament as part of TAC-07: The Eighth Annual Trading Agent Competition, 23-25 July 2007, Vancouver BC Canada, Collocated with the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI-07
For more information visit: www.marketbasedcontrol.com/cat, http://www.sics.se/tac/page.php?id=1
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Call for participation: 'Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0', September 5-6, 2007, The Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), University of York, UK
For more information visit: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/web2.0conferenceCFP.pdf
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DIMACS Workshop on Computational Methods for Dynamic Interaction Networks, September 24 - 25, 2007, Rutgers University
For more information visit: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Dynamic/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Kilkki, K., A practical model for analyzing long tails
For more information visit: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/kilkki/
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Pilkey, O.H. and Pilkey-Jarvis, L., Why Mathematical Models Just Don't Add Up
For more information visit: http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=cmsclngr61f7rxsfnx52s51xq7j8mgkz
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Call For Book Chapters: Agent-directed Simulation and Systems Engineering, Wiley-VCH Verlag
For more information visit: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~yilmaz/ADSSE.htm
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Research in the Sociology of Work is accepting manuscripts for Volume 19, focusing on the "Economic Sociology of Work" (expected publication date March 2009).
For more information visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/rsw
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Summer School ABM-S4-ESHIA-2007 (extended deadline), Agent Based Models for Spatial Systems in Social Sciences & Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents Agelonde, La Londe les Maures (Var, France), September 17-22, 2007 (6 days).
For further information visit: http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/denis.phan/laLonde/
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