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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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NetLogo 4.0 beta release: a substantial expansion to NetLogo's capabilities
URL: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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cfP: International Conference on Complex Systems 2007, October 28-November 2, 2007 in Boston, MA
For more information visit: http://necsi.org/events/iccs7/
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CfP: GeoInfo 2007 – IX Braziliam Symposium on Geoinformatics, Campos do Jordão, November 25 - 28, 2007.

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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Reiss, J. (2007), Do We Need Mechanisms in the Social Sciences?, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 37 (2) Sage Publications, 163-184
URL: http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/2/163
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Multi-Agent Systems:Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
Edited by Dr. Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
For more information visit: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~virginia/book/cfc-omas.htm
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection on Multi-Agent Systems for Traffic and Transportation
Edited by Ana L. C. Bazzan (UFRGS) and Franziska Klügl (University of Würzburg)
For more information visit: http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/%7Ekluegl/mas_traffic_book/
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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2 Post doc position in Carnegie Mellon's Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Center (CASOS) in dynamic network analysis. Job Posting# 2690 - Post Doctoral Associate
For more information visit: http://hr.web.cmu.edu/prospective/
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PostDoc Researcher Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Representation f/m. Full-time appointment for 3 years.
For more information visit: http://www.few.vu.nl/soks
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PhD Position: The Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, is offering a PhD student position to work on agent constellations for decision processes on infrastructure networks in shrinking urban regions.
For more information visit: http://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=2639&sid=&ske_site=3&ske_stl_id=459&ske_returnSite=1
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PhD Studentships at the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science for October 2007 in any area. In particular if you are interested in studying within the Machine Learning and Biological Computation Group
contact James Marshall: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall
For more information visit: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/MachineLearning/
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Course announcement: Analysis of Longitudinal Network Data, 10-13 September, Oxford, UK.
For more information visit: http://springschool.politics.ox.ac.uk/courses/index.asp
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