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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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TouchGraph, free Java application to explore the connections between related websites and FaceBook network
For more information visit: http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html and http://www.touchgraph.com/TGFacebookBrowser.html
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Wikipedia provides a list of nobel laureates and their affiliation to academic institutions
For more information visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates_by_university_affiliation
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Thomas Flanagan's Java Scientific Library provides a variety of distributions including log-normal distribution.
For more information visit: http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/java/index.html
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Workshop, Networks: Innovation & Effectiveness, Sept 10-13th, University of Greenwich, London
For more information visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/business/departments/ibe/newsevents/networks-innovation-_and_-effectiveness
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Repast Simphony training workshop, November 12-14, 2007, University Evanston, IL, USA
For more information visit: http://www.agent2007.anl.gov/repast.html
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Workshop on NetLogo as part of the Agent 2007 conference organised by Northwestern University's Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL) in conjunction with the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO),  November 12–14 Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA
For more information visit: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/agent2007/
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CfP: ACM SAC 2008 - Track: Advances in Computer Simulation, at The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) March 16 – 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

For more information visit: http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/ACS/
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KDD Cup and Workshop 2007, Co-organized by ACM SIGKDD and Netflix
To be held at KDD-2007, San Jose, California, Aug 12, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~liub/Netflix-KDD-Cup-2007.html
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Beyond Obesity: The World Is a Social Network
URL: http://www.emailthis.clickability.com/et/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&etMailToID=1837649163&pt=Y
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John Bone, John D Hey, John Suckling, "Do People Plan?", 2007-07
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:yor:yorken:06/22&r=cbe
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Christine Horne. Explaining Norm Enforcement. Rationality and Society 2007 19: 139-170
URL: http://rss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/2/139
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Pablo Lucas dos Anjos. AABSS: Affective Agent-Based Social Simulation – a critique of models of primate-like social behaviour. Master of Philosophy (MPhill) thesis, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2007.
URL: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/%7Eanjos/publications/mphil%20final%20version.pdf
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Research Fellow, Viability of online communities, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey, UK
The post is associated with the European Union Framework 6 project, PATRES (Pattern Resilience). An overview of the project may be found at http://www.patres-project.eu/
For informal discussions about the post, contact Professor Nigel Gilbert at n.gilbert@surrey.ac.uk. For an application pack and to apply on line, please visit www.surrey.ac.uk/vacancies
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The Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Structural Development of Farms and Rural Areas, has both a postdoctoral and a PhD position available in the project "Models of farm-level structural change", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
For more information visit: http://www.iamo.de/iamo/institut/stellenangebote.html
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CMU CASOS center is looking for a PostDoc in the area of belief formation and tax related behavior and a PostDoc in Geo-Spatially Enable Network Analysis
For more information visit: http://hr.web.cmu.edu/prospective/
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