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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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Strategy-predicting software: Could a computer predict your next move in a game of strategy based only on observations of your past behaviour? The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) certainly hopes so. It has funded a project led by computer scientist H. Van Dyke Parunak to explore the idea.
New Scientist Invention Blog, URL: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2007/08/strategy-predicting-software.html
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ASCAPE: open source release announcement:
URL: http://ascape.sourceforge.net/
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Deadline Extended: ACM SAC 2008 - Track: Advances in Computer Simulation at The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)
March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Cear·, Brazil
For more information visit: http://www.lintar.disco.unimib.it/ACS/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Call for submissions: Computational Statitics & Data Mining: 4th Special Issue on Computational Econometrics
Guest Editors:  D.A. Belsley, R. Davidson, E.J. Kontoghiorghes, J. MacKinnon and H.K. Van Dijk
For more information visit: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/csda and csda@dcs.bbk.ac.uk.
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Thomas Fent, Patrick Groeber, Frank Schweitzer, Coexistence of Social Norms based on In- and Out-group Interactions,
2007/08/30, DOI:0708.4155, arXiv [ACS - Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 10, no. 2 (2007), pp.  271-286]
URL: http://uk.arXiv.org/abs/0708.4155
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Loet Leydesdorff, The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Systems
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/casys07/casys07.pdf
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New issue of Methodological Innovations Online  2 (2): Critical Realist Explorations in Methodology
URL: http://erdt.plymouth.ac.uk/mionline/public_html/
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Epidemiological Modeller: The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen,
For more information visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/KF519/Epidemiological_Modeller/
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Postdoctoral researceher: The Relational Agents Group in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University
For more information visit: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/rag/
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The Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam is currently looking for one PhD student and one
postdoctoral research fellow to work on research problems in computational social choice.
For more information visit: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~ulle/vidi/
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Two PhD student positions open: The CINEF-DIBE, University of Genoa, Italy invites highly motivated individuals to apply for two PhD student positions starting on January 1st 2008 on the field of agent-based computational economics.Contact:  Prof. Silvano Cincotti,Email: cincotti@dibe.unige.it

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Dubai Agent & Multiagent Systems School (DAMAS), January 27-30, 2008, Dubai. Registration deadline: October 15, 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.buid.ac.ae/damas
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