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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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Wikipedia entry on Social Simulation - From Nigel Gilbert (SIMSOC mailing list):
Although there has recently been a spate of editing of the Wikipedia entry on Social Simulation: URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_simulation. The result does not yet seem to be of particularly high quality.  Perhaps members of this list could improve it?  (In case you were not aware, anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry).
Nigel
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Autonomous Agents: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson is drawn substantially from the exhibition Hershmanlandia, curated for the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, by Robin Held. Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
For more information visit: http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/autoagents/
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Miguel Helft - Google Gives Some Hints About Social Network Plan
For more information visit: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/google-hints-at-social-network-plan/
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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A session on "Agent-Based Social Simulation" (chaired by Nigel Gilbert, Flaminio Squazzoni and Klaus Troitzsch) at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology that will take place at Central European University in Budapest, June 26 -30, 2008. A call for papers will be soon announced on the congress web site (Submissions should be sent to squazzon@eco.unibs.it. The deadline is on 15 January 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2008/index.html
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A session on "Computational and Experimental Approaches to Cooperation in Human Societies" (chaired by Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni) at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology that will take place at Central European University in Budapest, June 26 -30, 2008. . A call for papers will be soon announced on the congress web site (Submissions should be sent to gbravo@eco.unibs.it. The deadline is on 15 January 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2008/index.html
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CfP: 1st ICC Workshop on Complexity in Social Systems, 11-12 January 2008, ISCTE, Lisbon
For more information visit: http://labmag.di.fc.ul.pt/icc/wcss
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CfP: The 27th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, February 11 – 13, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria
For more information visit: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-596.html?mic
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CfP: Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes, 6th-9th April 2008, Humboldt University, Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Germany
For more information visit: http://www.sensor-conference2008.eu
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CfP: Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development and Policy for Adaptation, 2-4 April 2008, Oxford, UK
For more information visit: http://www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com/index.htm
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International conference of The Social Capital Foundation will be held on September 19-22, 2008  in Malta.
For more information visit: http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/TSCF/TSCF%20conferences.htm.
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Symposium on agent-based modeling, risk, and finance: Can physicists beat the markets? - A retrospective of the first ten years of Econophysics and prospects.
Organisers: Dr D. Challet, Fribourg University and ISI, Dr. A. De Martino, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Prof. Y-C Zhang, Fribourg University
(An event by invitation only (matus.medo@unifr.ch), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 8-9 November 2007, sponsored by Fribourg Univ. and La Sapienza  Univ.)
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Economic sociology newsletter
URL: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_current.asp
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Information, Communication & Society: Special issue on e-Relationships, vol. 10, issue 5, 2007,
URL:  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title%7Econtent=t713699183%7Edb=all
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Loet Leydesdorff and Ismael Rafols, A Global Map of Science Based on the ISI Subject Categories, preprint version available
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/map06/texts/index.htm
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Kwang-Il Goh, Michael E. Cusick, David Valle, Barton Childs, Marc Vidal, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, The Human Disease Network, 07/05/22, PNAS, vol. 104 No 21 8685-8690
URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/21/8685
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Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Network Medicine - From Obesity to the "Diseasome", 07/07/26, New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 357:404-407
URL: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/404
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F. Bordes ,  D. T. Blumstein, S. Morand, Rodent Sociality And Parasite Diversity,  2007/10/09, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0393, Biological Letters
URL: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/m500w17845675731/?p=b5b836d7d1ba4e27afad072269a116bd&pi=1
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K. Vela Velupillai, A Computable Economist’s Perspective on Computational Complexity, 2007    
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:trn:utwpde:0723&r=cbe
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K. Vela Velupillai, Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the Undecidable in Mathematical Economics, 2007
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:trn:utwpde:0722&r=cbe
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John R.G. Dyer, Christos C. Ioannou, Lesley J. Morrell, Darren P. Croft, Iain D. Couzin, Dean A. Waters and Jens Krause, Consensus decision making in human crowds, Animal Behaviour, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 18 October 2007
URL:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6W9W-4PXNHP4-2&md5=60378749347dd5c7cdcd73d24c29bb94
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Xiaoping Liu, Xia Li, Xun Shi, Shaokun Wu and Tao Liu, Simulating complex urban development using kernel-based non-linear cellular automata? Ecological Modelling, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 October 2007
URL:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VBS-4PYJF6K-1&md5=26dc514e50ae559f1f236a065865106c
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Raz Lin, Sarit Kraus, Jonathan Wilkenfeld and James Barry, Negotiating with Bounded Rational Agents in Environments with Incomplete Information Using an Automated Agent, Artificial Intelligence, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 17 October 2007
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6TYF-4PXDM5C-1&md5=256e166887efa64601e699dd04478d0d
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Washington State University Department of Anthropology seeks Information Systems Coordinator to support the IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (http://depts.washington.edu/ipem/). This is a grant-funded, admin/professional, 12-month, half-time appointment on the Pullman (WA, USA) campus to begin no later than Jan 7, 2008, and terminate May 31, 2011.
For more information contact: Timothy Kohler, IPEM Info Systems Coord Search Committee, WSU Department of Anthropology, PO Box 644910, Pullman, WA 99164-4910. Application
review begins Dec 3, 2007.
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