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1. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
2. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
3. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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1. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: AGENT 2007: Complex Interaction and Social Emergence, November 15-17, 2007, Evanston, Illinois, USA
For more information visit: http://www.agent2007.anl.gov/
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CfP: MALLOW'007 - Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops, 3-7 September, 2007, Durham, UK
For more information visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/MALLOW007
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CfP: 2008 Modeling, Simulation, and Gaming Student Capstone Conference, April 10, 2008, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center,       Suffolk, Virginia
For more information visit: http://vmasc.odu.edu/capstoneconference
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Call for participation: 1st General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association on 20-22 August 2007, Vienna
For more information visit: http://www.euro.centre.org/IMA2007/programme/index.php
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2. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Call for Chapters: Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions, A book edited by Goran Trajkovski, South University, Savannah, GA, USA Samuel G. Collins, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA
Proposals Submission Deadline: 8/12/2007, Full Chapters Due: 12/16/2007
For more information visit: https://igi-pub.com/requests/details.asp?ID=213
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Call for Chapters: Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, A book edited by Dr. Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Submission Deadline for Proposals: July 31, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~virginia/book/cfc-omas.htm
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Damon Centola and Michael W. Macy (forthcoming), Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties
URL: ftp://hive.soc.cornell.edu/mwm14/webpage/WLT.pdf
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Michael Mitzenmacher, A Brief History of Generative Models for Power Law and Lognormal Distributions, Draft Manuscript, Harvard University
URL: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/NEWWORK/postscripts/history.pdf
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3. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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