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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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A good summary of articles about ABM in urban planning and geography
URL: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPaperDetail.asp?ID=110
URL: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPaperDetail.asp?ID=109
URL: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPaperDetail.asp?ID=108
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A blog by Andrew Crooks and Christian Castle focused around their interests in Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Agent-Based Models (ABM) which are subjects of their Phds.
For more information visit: http://gisagents.blogspot.com/
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: From Animals to Animals 10, The 10th International Conference on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'08), 7-12 July 2008, Osaka, Japan
For more information visit: http://sab08.org
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The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), March 16 – 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
For more information visit: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/
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13th Symposium of ISDG (International Society of Dynamic Games) will be held in Wroclaw, between 30 June and 3 July.
For more information visit: http://www.im.pwr.wroc.pl/isdg2008/
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5th International Conference on Computational Management Science, Imperial College, London, 26-28 March, 2008
For more information visit: http://cms2008.ps.ic.ac.uk/index.php
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CfP: Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the 21st Century, A conference to celebrate 25 years since the publication of Farjoun &

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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New issue (vol.5, no.1) of the journal Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) has been released.
For more information visit: http://indecs.znanost.org
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Knowledge Networks In The Age Of The Semantic Web, [9] E. Neumann, L. Prusak, May 2007, online 2007/05/14, DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbm013, Briefings in Bioinformatics
URL: http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/8/3/141
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The Complex Structure Of Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks, M. J. Hamilton , B. T. Milne , R. S. Walker , O. Burger , J. H. Brown, 2007/07/03, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0564, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences
URL: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/d605144170386223/
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Optimization in Networks, Adilson E. Motter,  Zoltan Toroczkai, 2007/06/28, DOI: 10.1063/1.2751266, Chaos 17, 026101
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2751266
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Evolution of Complex Modular Biological Networks, Arend Hintze and Christoph Adami, 2007/05/31, DOI: 0705.4674, arXiv
URL: http://uk.arXiv.org/abs/0705.4674
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The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations, András Németh and Károly Takács, 2007/06/30, JASSS 10(1)
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/3/4.html
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All the articles published in the Journal of Quantitative Anthropology between 1989 and 1996 are now available free online.
URL: http://www.quantitativeanthropology.org/index.php?journal=QA
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Azar, Ofer H.,The effect of relative thinking on firm strategy and market outcomes: A location differentiation model with endogenous transportation costs,  2007
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:4455&r=cbe
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Gabriele Camera, Marco Casari, Cooperation among strangers: an experiment with indefinite interaction, 2007-06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pur:prukra:1201&r=cbe
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Östling, Robert, Wang, Joseph Tao-yi, Chou, Eileen, Camerer, Colin F., Field and Lab Convergence in Poisson LUPI Games, 2007-08-14
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:hastef:0671&r=cbe
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Steven Gjerstad, Jason M. Shachat, Individual Rationality and Market Efficiency, 2007-08
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pur:prukra:1204&r=cbe
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Sebald, Alexander, Procedural Concerns, 2007-06-04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:4508&r=cbe
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Tirole, Jean, Bounded Rationality and Incomplete Contracts, 2007-05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ide:wpaper:7039&r=cbe
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Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite, David Schmeidler, Probabilities in Economic Modeling, 2007-08-10
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levrem:843644000000000357&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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The Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), University of Essex, UK is pleased to announce that, for October 2007 entry, one £5,000 studentship is available for the newly established MSc in Financial Software Engineering.
For more information contact: Professor Sheri Markose (Director of CCFEA) and Dr. Dietmar Maringer (Co-Deputy Director of CCFEA, Director of MSc and PhD Programs)
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Professor Mike Levi has received a 3 year ESRC professorial fellowship to conduct research on fraud and other financial crimes (e.g. corruption, money laundering) and their governance, which will commence in autumn 2007. He is looking for a PhD. student who will be funded by ESRC and, inter alia, to carry out analysis of crime networks derived from banking and insurance databases.
For more information contact: Prof. Mike Levi, Levi@Cardiff.ac.uk,  Phone +44 (0)29 2087 4376, mobile +44 (0)7930-551160
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The University of California, Irvine is currently recruiting for several positions that should be of interest to social network researchers.
For more information visit: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/fac_employment.php
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