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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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Flight Patterns - Dynamic network in action
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPv8psZsvIU
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Workshops at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, to be held in Budapest, 26-20 June 2008
- Agent-Based Social Simulation (co-chaired by Nigel Gilbert, Flaminio Squazzoni, and Klaus Troitzsch) - http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/agentbased.pdf
- Experimental and Computational Approaches to Cooperation in Human Societies (co-chaired by Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni) http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/computational_experimental.pdf
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CfP: Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, May 29 - June 1, 2008, Redondo Beach, CA
For more information visit: http://usjapan2008.mathematicalsociology.org/
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CfP: The 2008 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08), July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA
For more information visit: http://PromoteResearch.org
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Call for Participation: (From Nigel Gilbert) You are invited to attend a workshop to be held to mark the end of the NewTies project.  NewTies is an FP6 Future and Emerging technologies project with the objective of evolving an artificial society capable of exploring and understanding its environment through cooperation and interaction. Leiden, February 25 -26, 2008
For more information visit: https://www.new-ties.org/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New Book 'Programming Multi-Agent Systems in Agent Speak using JASON, by Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred Hübner, and Michael Wooldridge
URL: http://jason.sf.net/jBook/
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New issue (vol.5, no.2) of the journal Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS) devoted to modelling in support of poverty reduction and human development (guest editors: Ivana Cace and Joanna Bryson)
URL: http://indecs.znanost.org
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New issue of Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 135-248 (September 2007): Special issues on Cognitive Modeling, Edited byDanilo Fum, Fabio Del Missier and
Andrea Stocco
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/6595-2007-999919996-669004
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What makes the Kula go round? A simulation model of the spontaneous emergence of a ceremonial exchange system, Social Networks, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 October 2007, by: Rolf Ziegler
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_method=citationSearch&_urlVersion=4&_origin=SDSRCHALERTASCII&_version=1&_uoikey=B6VD1-4R17TXC-1&md5=18fdb4bd44a6f8a41a388c906b456a35
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Adaptive coevolutionary networks: a review, J. R. Soc. Interface, doi:10.1098/rsif.2007.1229 Published online, by: Thilo Gross and Bernd Blasius
URL: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/1824gq6103378448/?p=0b5d1c483a94451ca9db4c4fec7b6efa&pi=3
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He endorses me – He endorses me not – He endorses me… Contextualized reasoning in complex systems, by: Bogdan Werth, Armando Geller and Ruth Meyer, Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Paper Series, CPM Report No.: 07-184
URL: http://cfpm.org/cpmrep184.html
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Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others, by  Aaron Edlin, Andrew Gelman and Noah Kaplan
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:13562&r=cdm
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Strategy-Proofness and Single-Crossing, by: Alejandro Saporiti
URL:  http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:roc:wallis:wp48&r=cdm
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CfP: Energy Economics - "Energy Sector Pricing and Macroeconomic Dynamics" Guest Editors: Catherine KYRTSOU (ckyrtsou@uom.gr)and Anastasios G. MALLIARIS (tmallia@luc.edu)
For more information contact the guest editors.
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CfP: Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics -  Proposals Submissions Due: 11/15/2007
for more information visit:  http://www.computationalarts.info/
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4. Job opportunities, Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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Faculty Positions at the MIT Media Laboratory - The MIT Media Laboratory is searching to hire several new tenure-track faculty.
To apply, please visit http://facultysearch.media.mit.edu/ Application deadline: January 10, 2008
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