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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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Muhamud Yunus to receive Herbert Simon Award at ICCS:
The Herbert A. Simon Award will be presented to Muhammad Yunus for his work promoting global development and alleviating poverty through microfinance and the Grameen Bank.
Dr. Yunus will accept the award at the International Conference on Complex Systems, which takes place October 28-November 2 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Blog post from Jeff Jonas on a possible total surveillance society
For more information visit: http://tinyurl.com/2yl66d
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New visualization system (PhP from Yose Widjaja)
For more information visit: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wyos/skyrails/index.php
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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2nd CfP: Connection Science Journal: Special Issue on 'Social Learning in Embodied Agents'. Full paper submission :: 30 October 2007
For more information contact Guest Editors: Alberto Acerbi, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome, Italy <http://laral.istc.cnr.it/acerbi/>, Davide Marocco, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Rome, Italy <http://laral.istc.cnr.it/marocco/> and Paul Vogt, Communication and Information Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
<http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~paulv/>
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CfP: International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling <http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=100> - Special Issue on: 'Modelling and simulation of new business models'. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 31 January, 2008.
For more information contact Guest Editor: Peter Ball, Department of Manufacturing, B50 Cranfield University Cranfield Bedford, MK43 0AL U.K.  +44 1234 750111 Ext 5657,
Email: p.d.ball@cranfield.ac.uk
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CfP: Agent-based Economics - Eastern Economics Association Meetings, March 7th - 9th, 2008, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston MA
Submit paper for presentation to Jason Barr, jmbarr@rutgers.edu with 1)Your name, email and a paper and/or abstract, and 2)The field or area of your paper (e.g., Macroeconomics, Labor, Finance, Social Networks, IO, etc.)
For more information visit: http://nycompworkshop.org/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Benjamin Elbirt, PhD Thesis: The Nature of Networks:  A Structural Census of Degree Centrality across Multiple Network Sizes and Edge Densities
For more information visit: http://www.buffalocommunitybuilders.com/elbirt.html
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Eliot Maenner, Adaptation and complexity in repeated games Games and Economic Behavior, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 October 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6WFW-4PTW4SX-1&md5=25b40bb78dd5bacb5106606f13f9d14a
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Leslie Luthi, Enea Pestelacci and Marco Tomassini, Cooperation and community structure in social networks, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 October 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TVG-4PTW4PD-1&md5=1d38e62966bd862eaf062aeab79c53a0
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Frank Beckenbach, Ramòn Briegel, Maria Daskalakis, Behavioral foundation and agent-based simulation of regional innovation dynamics, 2007-08
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kas:poabec:2007-3&r=cbe
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Agent-based Modelling and Simulation in the Social and Human Sciences, Edited by Denis Phan and Frédéric Amblard, in GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis, The Bardwell Press
URL: http://www.bardwell-press.co.uk/publications/agent-based_modelling.htm
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M. Simões, M. M., Telo da Gama, A. Nunes, Stochastic Fluctuations In Epidemics On Networks, 2007/10/02, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1206, Interface
URL: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/333758u51w380m52/?p=2a742444d86d4f19b9d582775649c858&pi=1
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Carter T. Butts and Kathleen M. CarleyStructural Change and Homeostasis in Organizations: A Decision-Theoretic Approach, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Volume 31, Issue 4 October 2007 , pages 295 - 321
URL: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0022%2d250X&volume=31&issue=4&spage=295
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Raúl Jiménez, Haydee Lugo, José A. Cuesta and Angel Sánchez, Emergence and resilience of cooperation in the spatial Prisoner's Dilemma via a reward mechanism, Journal of Theoretical Biology, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 October 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6WMD-4PWF100-2&md5=26d856341f1c4013449fa0b5c4e675d8
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Andrighetto, G., Campennì, M, Conte, R., Paolucci, M. (2007). On the Immergence of Norms: a Normative Agent Architecture. In , Proceedings of AAAI Symposium, Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington DC.
URL: http://www.istc.cnr.it/doc/146a_2138p_FS0705AndrighettoG.pdf
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Conte, R., Andrighetto, G., Campennì, M, Paolucci, M. (2007). Emergent and Immergent Effects in Complex Social Systems. In Proceedings of AAAI Symposium, Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington DC. Forthcoming.
URL: http://www.istc.cnr.it/doc/70a_2139p_FS0705ConteR.pdf
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John Symons, Jorge Louça, André Morais, David Rodrigues, Detecting emergence in the interplay of networks, In Proceedings of AAAI Symposium, Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, Washington DC. Forthcoming.
URL: http://www.johnfsymons.com/Detecting%20emergence%20in%20the%20interplay%20of%20networks%20FINAL%20VERSION.pdf
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Zhang, Y., Mark Lewis, Pellon, M. and Coleman, P., A Preliminary Research on Modeling Cognitive Agents for Social Environments in Multi-Agent Systems, 2007 Fall Symposium, Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, November 9-11, Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, 2007 (accepted).
URL: http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~yzhang/research/papers/2007/AAAIFallSymposium07/AAAIFallSym07.pdf
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Douglas. R. White, Laurent Tambayong and Natasa Kejzar,  City-system dynamics in world history studied by change in city-size distributions, Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine Technical Report: MBS 07-04
URL: http://www.imbs.uci.edu/tr/abs/2007/mbs07_04.pdf

Ottone, S., Ponzano, F. and Ricciuti, R., Simulating voting rule reforms for the Italian parliament. An economic perspective
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uca:ucapdv:88&r=cdm
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De Sanctis, L. and Galla, T., Effects of noise and confidence thresholds in nominal and metric Axelrod dynamics of social influence
URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007arXiv0707.3428D
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Arizona State University is recruiting at the assistant professor level for someone doing research in social networks.  The School of Social and Family Dynamics (SSFD), an interdisciplinary unit at Arizona State University (http://www.asu.edu/ssfd), invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position
with a focus on social networks beginning Fall 2008. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 22, 2007.
For more information contact David Schaefer (david.schaefer@asu.edu)
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UCD School of Sociology invites applications for the position of Lecturer in Sociology. The School would particularly welcome applications from candidates with research and teaching expertise that will contribute to the School's strengths in one or more of the following areas: culture and globalisation; gender, socialisation and the life-course; and migration and diversity. Applicants should have a PhD in Sociology or a cognate discipline, experience of teaching in third-level education, and a demonstrated commitment to publishing high-quality research. Closing date for receipt of applications is no later than noon, Monday 5th November 2007.
For more information contact: UCD Human Resources, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 or by fax (01) 7164949.
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Post-doctoral researcher position available immediately in agent-based computational modeling of social behavior at The Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University Bloomington and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dam.
For more information contact Associate Professor Dr. Matthias Scheutz, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University Bloomington, mscheutz[at]indiana[dot]edu and Professor Dr. Sunny Boyd Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, sboyd[at]nd[dot]edu
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The Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University seeks candidates to fill a junior-level tenure track  position in computational modeling, complexity, and social  systems.  Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent before  starting employment.  Candidates must demonstrate a strong research  track record and have research interests related to the  computational modeling of complex social systems with strong  quantitative and analytic skills.  Joint appointments are possible  with other units on campus.
For more information contact: Prof. John  H. Miller, Social Systems Search Committee, Department of Social  and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890.
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