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ESSA newsletter 130 - 06/25/2007 -> 07/01/2007
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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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The Traveler's Dilemma: When playing this simple game, people consistently reject the rational choice.
In fact, by acting illogically, they end up reaping a larger reward--an outcome that demands a new kind of for?mal reasoning
By
Kaushik Basu, June 2007 issue, Scientific American
URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=7750A576-E7F2-99DF-3824E0B1C2540D47&pageNumber=1&catID=2 --
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: International Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Management for Web Information Systems (WE.KNOW 2007), 3 December 2007, Nancy, France
For more information visit: http://kater.uni-koblenz.de/~openconf/we.know.2007/
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CfP: Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 10 - 13 December 2007, Bangalore, India
For more information visit: http://www.escience2007.org/
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SWARM Fest2007 (July 12-14) full schedule available at: http://condor.depaul.edu/~slytinen/SwarmFest2007/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) Volume 10 (3) published: 30-Jun-2007.
Editor: Nigel Gilbert, Forum Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Review Editor: Flaminio Squazzoni
Peer-reviewed Articles:
Simulating Gender Stratification, by James F. Robison-Cox, Richard F. Martell and Cynthia G. Emrich
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/8.html>
Information Feedback and Mass Media Effects in Cultural Dynamics, by Juan Carlos González-Avella, Mario G. Cosenza, Konstantin Klemm, Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/9.html>
Research on Multi-Agent Simulation of Epidemic News Spread Characteristics, by Xiaoguang Gong and Renbin Xiao <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/1.html>
Dynamics of Network Formation Processes in the Co-Author Model, by Laurent Tambayong
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/2.html>
Evolutionary Tournament-Based Comparison of Learning and Non-Learning Algorithms for Iterated Games, by Stéphane Airiau, Sabyasachi Saha and Sandip Sen <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/7.html>
Finite Neighborhood Binary Games: a Structural Study, by Jijun Zhao, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Miklos N. Szilagyi
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/3.html>
The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations, by András Németh and Károly Takács
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/4.html>
How Realistic Should Knowledge Diffusion Models Be?, by Jean-Philippe Cointet and Camille Roth
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/5.html>
Characterising Land Holding Size Distributions in a Forest Reserve, by Oswaldo Terán, Johanna Alvarez, Magdiel Ablan and Manuel Jaimes
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/6.html>
Forum:
Open Access for Social Simulation, by J. Gary Polhill and Bruce Edmonds
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/10.html>
Book Reviews:
Koen Frenken reviews: Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy by Pyka, Andreas and Hanusch, Horst
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/frenken.html>
Piergiuseppe Morone reviews: Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory by Frenken, Koen
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/morone.html>
Nicholas M. Gotts reviews: Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Understanding System Complexity by Allison, Helen and Hobbs, Richard <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/gotts.html>
Jim Doran reviews: I Am a Strange Loop by Hofstadter, Douglas R.<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/doran.html>
Simulating Gender Stratification, by James F. Robison-Cox, Richard F. Martell and Cynthia G. Emrich
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/8.html>
Information Feedback and Mass Media Effects in Cultural Dynamics, by Juan Carlos González-Avella, Mario G. Cosenza, Konstantin Klemm, Víctor M. Eguíluz and Maxi San Miguel <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/9.html>
Research on Multi-Agent Simulation of Epidemic News Spread Characteristics, by Xiaoguang Gong and Renbin Xiao <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/1.html>
Dynamics of Network Formation Processes in the Co-Author Model, by Laurent Tambayong
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/2.html>
Evolutionary Tournament-Based Comparison of Learning and Non-Learning Algorithms for Iterated Games, by Stéphane Airiau, Sabyasachi Saha and Sandip Sen <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/7.html>
Finite Neighborhood Binary Games: a Structural Study, by Jijun Zhao, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Miklos N. Szilagyi
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/3.html>
The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations, by András Németh and Károly Takács
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/4.html>
How Realistic Should Knowledge Diffusion Models Be?, by Jean-Philippe Cointet and Camille Roth
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/5.html>
Characterising Land Holding Size Distributions in a Forest Reserve, by Oswaldo Terán, Johanna Alvarez, Magdiel Ablan and Manuel Jaimes
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/6.html>
Forum:
Open Access for Social Simulation, by J. Gary Polhill and Bruce Edmonds
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/10.html>
Book Reviews:
Koen Frenken reviews: Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-Based Economy by Pyka, Andreas and Hanusch, Horst
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/frenken.html>
Piergiuseppe Morone reviews: Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory by Frenken, Koen
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/morone.html>
Nicholas M. Gotts reviews: Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Understanding System Complexity by Allison, Helen and Hobbs, Richard <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/gotts.html>
Jim Doran reviews: I Am a Strange Loop by Hofstadter, Douglas R.<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/reviews/doran.html>
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate/Research Engineer, The Ergonomics Lab in the Edward P. Fitts Department of
Industrial & Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University
For those wishing to apply for this position, please submit the below documents on-line at: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/ . (Click on "Search Vacancies". Enter position number "04-32-0707".)
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CASE PhD studentship at the Stockholm Environment Institute(Oxford) and University of Kent, UK
Project Title: A comparison of social learning and local decision making in change adaptation to water scarcity issues in South Africa and the UK using climate envelopes and knowledge elicitation
Institutions: Anthropology, University of Kent. Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford).
Supervisors: Prof. Michael Fischer (Kent), Dr. Thomas E. Downing (SEI Oxford).
For more information visit: http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/csac/mkdn/Positions/CSAC-SEI07.html
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2007 Summer School on Computational Social Sciences, August 27 - September 7, 2007
Place: National Chengchi University, Taiwan
For more information visit: http://www.aiecon.org/2007_summer_school
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