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1. ESSA Communication: ESSA 2008 Conference
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: ESSA 2008 Conference
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The Fifth Conference of the European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA 2008), September 1-5, 2008, Brescia, Italy
Invited speakers:
- David A. Lane (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia and Santa Fe Institute)
- Peter Hedström (University of Oxford)
For more information visit: http://www.eco.unibs.it/essa
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The proceedings of the ESSA 2007 conference are available for download on
http://w3.univ-tlse1.fr/ceriss/soc/ESSA2007/ESSA2007Proceedings.pdf
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Book - Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries, Edited By: Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; Klaus G. Troitzsch, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Cesáreo Hernández Iglesias, University of Valladolid, Spain
For more informaion visit: http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?ID=6970
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2. By the way
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Social Psych Lyrics by ALAN REIFMAN
For more information visit: http://socialpsychlyrics.blogspot.com/
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The Facebook of Wall Street’s Future
URL: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/the-facebook-of-wall-streets-future/
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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EASTERN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEETINGS, March 7th - 9th, 2008, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston MA
For more information visit: http://nycompworkshop.org/
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CfP, CONNECTION SCIENCE JOURNAL, Special Issue on SOCIAL LEARNING IN EMBODIED AGENTS
All manuscripts should be emailed to the guest editor (Alberto Acerbi, alberto.acerbi[at]istc.cnr.it). Instructions for authors are available
from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/ccosauth.asp.
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CfP, European Conference on Information Systems 2008 Galway, Ireland, June 9th - 11th, 2008, Submission deadline: November, 15th, 2007
For information visit: http://www.ecis2008.ie
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CfP, 10th International GOR Conference, GOR 08, GENERAL ONLINE RESEARCH 2008, March, 10-12, 2008, Hamburg University, Germany, organized by: German Society for Online Research - DGOF e.V.
For more information visit: http://www.gor.de.
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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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Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach, in Complex Systems Leadership Theory,  Editors: James K. Hazy, Jeffrey A. Goldstein & Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, ISBN: 978-0-9791688-6-4, ISCE Publishing.
For more information visit: <http://isce.edu/CSLT>http://isce.edu/CSLT
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The October 2007 issue of the SSNV Newsletter (Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence Research Newsletter)
URL: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n10.html
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Social Networks and Marketing, by Christophe Van den Bulte and Stefan Wuyts, Marketing Science Institute, 2007.
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C. Christensen, R. Albert, Using Graph Concepts To Understand The Organization Of Complex Systems, Jul. 2007, DOI: 10.1142/S021812740701835X, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
URL: http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=pii:S021812740701835X&type=html
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Bernardo A. Mello and Daniel O. Cajueiro, Minority games, diversity, cooperativity and the concept of intelligence, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TVG-4PSC255-4&md5=e27188dc00bf8e1b51b5ba988e64a15f
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Markus Brede, Fabio Boschetti and David McDonald, Strategies for resource exploitation, Ecological Complexity, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 1 October 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B7CRV-4PT2FRR-1&md5=4d4031e09bfe6bd477684591a94b4ece
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Woo-Sung Jung, Okyu Kwon, Fengzhong Wang, Taisei Kaizoji, Hie-Tae Moon and H. Eugene Stanley, Group dynamics of the Japanese market, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 September 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TVG-4PSK8V1-9&md5=c243feb3a799121de6a44f5ad2940fb0
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J.J. Wu, H.J. Sun and Z.Y. Gao, Dynamic urban traffic flow behavior on scale-free networks, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TVG-4PSC255-8&md5=c84b905b8d0d4de9e0625eed0c601002
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Andreas Ortmann, Sasha Prokosheva, Ondrej Rydval, Ralph Hertwig, Valuing a Risky Prospect Less than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect or Task Ambiguity?, 2007-07
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cer:papers:wp334&r=cbe
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Waldo Tapia, Juan Yermo, Implications of Behavioural Economics for Mandatory Individual Account Pension Systems, 2007-07
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:dafaab:11-en&r=cbe
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The 7 September issue of Science, devoted to Social Cognition
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/socialcognition/
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5. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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A research political scientist position at evolve24
For more information visit: http://www.evolve24.com/1_companyResearchScientistPolitical%20Science.html
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The team UMR "Gestion-Eau-Acteurs-Usages" from Cemagref and CNRS LIRMM from Montpellier, look after good candidates for post-doc  (topic attached)  and
phd positions (4) in the field of e-democracy for integrated coastal area management, to support electronic debates and implementation of contracts.
Speaking and reading french is required with basic skills - fluency can be improved on the way.
Contact Dr. Nils Ferrand for further information: Tel.: +33/(0)4 67 04 63 20, Fax : +33/(0)4 67 63 57 95, skype: nilsferrand (URL: www.cemagref.fr)
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UCD School of Sociology invites applications for the position of Lecturer in Sociology
Contact details: UCD Human Resources, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 or by fax (01) 7164949
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Arizona State University is recruiting at the assistant professor level for someone doing research in social networks.
For more information contact: David R. Schaefer, Ph.D. david.schaefer@asu.edu
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Nuffield College at the University of Oxford intends to appoint, with effect from 1st September 2008, a number of Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows (PPRFs).
For more information visit: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/General/jobs/PPRF2007/SSciences/SSciences.aspx
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