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1. By the way
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
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1. By the way
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Gambling on tomorrow: Modelling the Earth's climate mathematically is hard already. Now a new difficulty is emerging
Aug 16th 2007, The Economist print edition
URL: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9645336
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Announcement: The 28th annual, International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, January 22-28 2008, Florida.
For more information visit: http://insna.org/

Programme for 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, 10 - 14 September, Lisbon available online
For more information visit: www.ecal2007.org
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Programmer for Enhancing Social Interaction: Recommender Systems, Reputation, P2P, Trust and Social Networks, 4 October 2007, Dresden (Germany), satellite workshop of ECCS'07
For more information visit:   http://www.sg.ethz.ch/events/ECCS_satellite
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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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CfP: The 19th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2008), May 26 – 28, 2008, Quebec, Canada
For moe information visit: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-620.html?ms
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CfP: The 13th Symposium of ISDG (International Society of Dynamic Games), 30 June-3 July 2008, Wroclaw
For more information visit: http://www.im.pwr.wroc.pl/isdg2008/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New issue of Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) has been released and the articles are available online
URL: http://indecs.znanost.org
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New issue of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, published by Springer Netherlands, available online
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/102852/
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Power, Resources, and Violence in Contemporary Conflict: Artificial Evidence, by Armando Geller, CPM Report No.: 07-181, Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Paper Series
URL: http://cfpm.org/cpmrep181.html
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