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ESSA newsletter 141 - 09/10/2007 -> 09/16/2007


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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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ESSA website offers a perfect opportunity for dissemination of your ideas and publications in the Social Simulation community. In your account you have the possibility to enter your new publications. ESSA website: http://essa.eu.org
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Online computer museum, the revival of early days of computer based social simulation
For more information visit: http://www.digibarn.com/
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Scott Jaschik, A Ranking That Would Matter
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/21/ranking
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the 21st Century, July 14 -- 17, 2008 Kingston University, UK
For more information visit: www.probabilisticpoliticaleconomy.net
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CfP: AAG 2008, Perspectives on Geographic Complexity, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 15-19, 2008, Boston, MA, USA.
For more information contact: Alison Heppenstall, University of Leeds (A.J.Heppenstall@leeds.ac.uk)
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Call for abstracts: 2008  SUNBELT XXVIII International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, 22-28 January, 2008, Tradewinds Island Resort, St. Pete Beach,Florida, USA
For more information visit: http://www.insna.org/2008/sunbelt2008.html
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New issue of online journal Sociologica
URL: http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/journal/issue/index/Issue/Journal:ISSUE:2
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Dawn C. Parker, Amy Hessl and Sarah C. Davis, Complexity, land-use modeling, and the human dimension: Fundamental challenges for mapping unknown outcome spaces, Geoforum, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 4 September 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6V68-4PK8B77-1&md5=198a495ea84b4f4477dab652f3f7fba8
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Loet Leydesdorff, The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Interactions
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/casys07/index.htm
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Frank E. Walter, Stefano Battiston, Frank Schweitzer, A Model of a Trust-based Recommendation System on a Social Network
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0611054
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Bicchieri, Cristina, Erte, Xiao, Do the right thing: But only if others do so, 2007-08-25
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:4609&r=cbe
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Gary E Bolton, Axel Ockenfels, Information Externalities, Matching and Reputation Building - A Comment on Theory and an Experiment, 2007-08-04
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kls:series:0035&r=cbe
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Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha, Stephan Meier, Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially, 2007-08
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2968&r=cbe
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Kets, W., The Minority Game: An Economics Perspective, 2007
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:kubcen:200753&r=cbe
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Michèle Belot, Marco Francesconi, Can Anyone Be “The” One? Field Evidence on Dating Behavior, 2007-07
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ese:iserwp:2007-17&r=cbe
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Mitrut, Andreea, Nordblom, Katarina, Explaining Gift Behavior: Altruism or Social Norms? Theory and Evidence from Romania, 2007-09-04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0262&r=cbe
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The September 2007 issue of the "Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence Research Newsletter"
For more information visit: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n09.html
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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The Relational Agents Group in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University is seeking to fill a postdoctoral research position to support several NIH- and NSF-funded projects in the area of embodied conversational agents for health counseling.
For more information visit: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/rag/
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Research Analyst position at Palo Alto, CA. The group is seeking an energetic person with strong analytical skills to join Special Projects team as a Research Analyst.
For more information contact jobs-spg@polimetrix.com
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 This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation
  Association for their own use. Please do not distribute further.
  To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org
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  Newsletter Editors:                                                             
  Shah Jamal Alam (shah<at>cfpm<dot>org)                                          
  Bogdan Werth (bogdan<at>cfpm<dot>org)                                           
  Centre for Policy Modelling,                                                    
  Manchester Metropolitan University Business School                              
  www.cfpm.org 


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