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1. ESSA Communication: Representing the best of the ESSA conferences: Groningen (2003); Valodollid (2004); and Koblenz (2005).
2. By the way
3. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
5. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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1. ESSA Communication:
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Representing the best of the ESSA conferences: Groningen (2003); Valodollid (2004); and Koblenz (2005). Now available as:
Edmonds, B., Hernandez, C. and Troitzsch, K. G. (eds.) (2007) Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries.  IGI Publishing.
For more information visit: http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?ID=6970
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2. By the way
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Tom Lehrer on Sociology
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX5II-BJ8hI
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Primate Behavior Explained By Computer 'Agents' , ScienceDaily; Source: University of Bath, September 15, 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070911073916.htm
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Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages
For more information visit: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/31/0259224&from=rss
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Call for Chapters: Book on Afropessimism, Edited by P.Eric Louw (University of Queensland), Keyan Tomaselli (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and Boulou de Bberi(University of Ottawa)
If interested, please respond to Eric Louw (e.louw@uq.edu.au)
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CfP: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG 2007(, April 15-19, 2008, Boston, MA, USA.
For more information visit: www.aag.org
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CfP: WWW2008, a part of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (April 21-25, 2008) Beijing, China, Submission deadline Nov. 1, 2007
For more information visit: http://www2008.org/CFP/RP-SN_and_Web2.html
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CfP: 7th European Conference on Research Methodologies for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2008), Regent’s College, London, UK, 19-20 June 2008
For more information visit: http://academic-conferences.org/ecrm/ecrm2008/ecrm08-home.htm
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Modelling natural action selection, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, Organised and edited by Tony J Prescott, Joanna J Bryson and Anil K Seth, SPECIAL OFFER PRICE TO ESSA MEMBERS: £47.50/US$90 (usual price:
£59.50/US$110)
For more information visit: www.publishing.royalsoc.ac.uk/natural-action. The specially discounted price is only available by contacting Debbie Vaughan at the Royal Society direct (debbie.vaughan@royalsoc.ac.uk)
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Symposium in the journal Simulation & Gaming about “Simulation and gaming in natural resource management” has appeared in two parts in June 07 and September 07 issues
URL: http://sag.sagepub.com/content/vol38/issue2/ and http://sag.sagepub.com/content/vol38/issue3/
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New Issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal Volume 38 Issue 7:  Guest Editorial: Best of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMODSIM)
URL: (http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=0196-9722&volume=38&issue=7&uno_jumptype=alert&uno_alerttype=new_issue_alert,email)
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New on-line journal has just published the second issue, with articles on different aspects of social networks/social relations by Andrew Abbott, Mark Mizruchi and Mark Granovetter.
For more information visit: http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/main
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Proceedings of the Sixth Intl. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 14–18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawai’i, now available online.
URL: http://www.aamas-conference.org/Proceedings/aamas07/
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Business by numbers, Sep 13th 2007, The Economist
URL: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9795140
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Simulating soil fertility and poverty dynamics in Uganda: A bio-economic multi-agent systems approach, Ecological Economics, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 September 2007 Pepijn Schreinemachers, Thomas Berger and Jens B. Aune
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VDY-4PP23GB-1&md5=030745c3c893d08848183f928fba553e
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Modeling and Simulation of Corporate Lifecycle Using System Dynamics Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 September 2007, Hu Bin, Zhang Debin, Ma Caixue, Jiang Yong, Hu Xiongying and Zhang Jinlong
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6X3C-4PN05S0-1&md5=73cbcbad7722f53d6006a653bfcbf421
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Why are friends special? Implementing a social interaction simulation task to probe the neural correlates of friendship
NeuroImage, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 15 September 2007 Berna Güroðlu, Gerbert J.T. Haselager, Cornelis F.M. van Lieshout, Atsuko Takashima, Mark Rijpkema and Guillén Fernández
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6WNP-4PNM48R-3&md5=3008fb0207f945d10bee8544c0d130dc
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Validation in Agent-based Models: An Investigation on the CATS model, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 September 2007, Carlo Bianchi, Pasquale Cirillo, Mauro Gallegati and Pietro A. Vagliasindi
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6V8F-4PMJJXJ-2&md5=e0aa6336fd18c79b78b4e17487b79773
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Effective vaccination strategies for realistic social networks Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 17 September 2007 Joel C. Miller and James M. Hyman
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TVG-4PP2CT5-2&md5=6e7187b902784eb6825cc69783a34afc
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5. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Please note CMU CASOS has a postdoc position currently open for someone with a networks background who can program in Java or C++.  It is a one year position.  You must already have your Ph.D. Inquiries should be directed to Kathleen Carley kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu
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