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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 Future of Search - The head of Google Research talks about his group's projects.
For more information visit: http://www.kdnuggets.com/news/2007/n15/30i.html
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Tool for text analysis with unlimited text sizes
For more information visit: http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/fulltext/index.htm
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Agent-Directed Simulation Symposium (ADS'08), Crown Plaza Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, April 14-17
For more information visit: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/SCS-TM/ADS-2008.htm
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The First Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance, PDCoF08-Computational Finance - Friday, April 18, 2008 to be held in conjunction with the International  Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS08) April 14-18, 2008, Miami, FL, USA (http://www.ipdps.org)
For more information visit: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pdcof
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EASSS'07 - 9th European Agent Systems Summer School, EASSS'07 will be held as part of the Durham Agents'007 event, hosted by the Department of Computer Science and St. Chad's College, University of Durham, U.K., 27–31 August 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/EASSS07
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MALLOW'007 - Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations Federated Workshops, MALLOW'007 is part of the Durham Agents'007 event, hosted by the Department of Computer Science and St. Chad's College, University of Durham, U.K., 3–7 September 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/durham.agents007/MALLOW007/
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CFP: Second International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media March 31-April 2, 2008, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
For more information visit: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/
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Social network Workshop, Stanford University, Wallenberg Hall, 160 Serra.
For more information visit: http://www.acteva.com/go/socialnetworks
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey, 2005-11, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Juergen Schupp, Gert Wagner
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:feb:wpaper:2096&r=cbe
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Self Control, Risk Aversion, and the Allais Paradox, 2007-08-02, Drew Fudenberg, David K Levine
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levarc:843644000000000332&r=cbe
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Do You Know That I Am Biased? An Experiment, Sandra Ludwig, Julia Nafziger
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse11_2007&r=cbe
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Book: Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence , Vol. 75, 2007, XVI, 404 p. 207 illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-73296-9
URL: http://www.springer.com/east/home/engineering?SGWID=5-175-22-173746219-0
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New Issue: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Volume 13, Number 3 / September, 2007
URL:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n6683543h573/?p=f3ce16b6bc5d437ba53f48b2adc7cd85&pi=0
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New Issue: Social Networks,  Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 349-468 (July 2007)
Special Section: Personal Networks, Edited by B. Wellman
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788733
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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University of Hertfordshire, Interfaculty Research Studentships, Various disciplines (listing of 12 projects)
For more information visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/enhanced/MC092.html
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The International Conflict Research Group at ETH Zurich seeks a PhD Candidate (60%)interested in writing his/her PhD thesis on agent-based computer simulation with emphasis on social-science applications including conflict research. The candidate will be supervised by Professor Lars-Erik Cederman in possible collaboration with a co-supervisor at ETH covering the fields of Physics or Computer Science.
For more information visit: http://www.pa.ethz.ch/3300_an_offene_stellen/Wissenschaft/detail?event=detail&id=1408
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