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1. WCSS 2008 announcement
2. By the way
3. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
6. Job opportunities
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1. WCSS 2008 announcement
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The second World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS-08) will take place in Washington DC (George Mason University), from 14 to 17 July, and builds on the highly successful first world congress hosted in 2006 at Kyoto University, Japan.
For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss
The registration website for the 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation is now available at:
http://conference.gmu.edu/conference/conference_registration.asp?id1=108
Early registration is offered at discounted fees. Please register early. The registration fee includes: Coffee breaks, reception one evening, banquet another evening, bus between the Marriott Hotel (offering a special rate) and the George Mason University conference site, registration package, and proceedings CD.
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2. By the way
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An animation of the dynamic development of the citation impact environment of the journal Social Networks during the period 1994-2006. (You may need to install the Adobe SVG Viewer and the preferred browser is Internet Explorer.)
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/socnetw/index.htm
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP:Two Calls for Papers for workshops at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, to be held in Budapest, 26-20 June2008
** Agent-Based Social Simulation (http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/agentbased.pdf)
** Experimental and Computational Approaches to Cooperation in Human (http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/computational_experimental.pdf)
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CfP:The 2008 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-08) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA.
For more information visit: http://www.promoteresearch.org/2008/eiswt/index.html
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The 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) in Sandton, South Africa from 13-18 July 2008.

For more information visit: http://www.ifors2008.org/
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CfP: 5TH International Conference on Computational Management Science, 26-28 March 2008, Imperial College London
For more information visit: http://cms2008.ps.ic.ac.uk/
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CfP: Special Session on Nature Inspired Algorithms and Their Applications at The Fourth IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST 2008), April 2-4, 2008, Langkawi, Malaysia
For more information visit: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/specialsession5-605.html
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CfP: Workshop on Link Analysis, Counter-terrorism and Security, 26th April, 2008, Atlanta at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
For more information visit: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~skill/siamworkshop.html
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CfP: 1st icc WORKSHOP ON COMPLEXITY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS ISCTE, Lisbon, 11-12 January 2008
For more information visit: http://labmag.di.fc.ul.pt/icc/wcss
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2008 SMART BUSINESS NETWORKS, May 19-23, 2008, Beijing, China, The Networked Experience – new value from smart business networks
For more information visit: http://ocs.sfu.ca/erim/index.php/SBNi/2008/schedConf/cfp
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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PROGRAMMING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IN AGENTSPEAK USING JASON by Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred Hübner, and Michael Wooldridge
For more information visit: http://jason.sf.net/jBook/
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Agent-Based Models (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Nigel Gilbert, SAGE Inc.
URL: http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/qasss/index.html
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Mixture models and exploratory analysis in networks, Newman, MEJ and Leicht,  EA. 2007. PNAS 104 (23) 9564-9569
URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/23/9564
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Multiscale Vulnerability Of Complex Networks, S. Boccaletti, J. Buldú, R. Criado, J. Flores, V. Latora, J. Pello, M. Romance, DOI: 10.1063/1.2801687, Chaos, Dec. 2007
URL: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=CHAOEH000017000004043110000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes
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Segregation and Black Political Efficacy, by: Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat and Ebonya L. Washington
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:13606&r=cdm
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Endogenous Political Instability, Ryo Arawatari and Kazuo Mino
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osk:wpaper:0732r&r=cdm
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NetLogo 4.0 Quick Guide.  Luis R. Izquierdo
URL:  http://www.luis.izquierdo.name/resources/NetLogo-4-0-QuickGuide.pdf
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Tracing Terrorists' Social Web, Associated Press (11/18/07); Rotstein, Arthur H.
URL:http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Tracing-Terrorists-Social-Web-60294.html
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From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm, Carl Zimmer, NYTimes, 07/11/13
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Rethinking Systems Theory: A Programmatic Introduction, Andreas Pickel, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2007;37 391-407
URL: http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/4/391?etoc
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Luhmann and Emergentism: Competing Paradigms for Social Systems Theory?, Dave Elder-Vass , Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2007;37 408-432
URL: http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/4/408?etoc
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Vortexes of Involvement: Social Systems as Turbulent Flow, Erika Summers-Effler, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2007;37 433-448
URL: http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/4/433?etoc
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Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities, Sylvia Walby, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2007;37 449-470
URL: http://pos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/4/449?etoc
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5. Research Schools and Doctoral Consortia
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A Summer School (in Winter….) on “Physical Constrained Electricity Markets As Complex Systems”  organized in Torino in December. The organization can also provide, in the case that it is needed, some economic support  (in term of living expenses in Turin and travel cost) that will be assigned on a competitive basis.
For more information visit: http://www.isi.it/progetti/school_dec_07/
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SIENA Course in Groningen: a hands-on workshop will be held for researchers who are working with the SIENA program for the statistical analysis of network dynamics for complete networks; as well as for those who have data available and wish to start working with SIENA. Date: March 31 - April 3, 2008. Location: Groningen, The Netherlands.
For more information visit: http://www.gmw.rug.nl/~steglich/dynamics/workshop/
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NECSI Winter School, January 7-18, 2008 - Week One - Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems. Week Two - Modeling, Networks and Evolution of Complex Systems
For more information visit: http://www.necsi.org/events/winter2008.html
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6. Job opportunities
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Rosalind Franklin Fellowships for women in Arts and Sciences (tenure-track) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands:
To promote the participation of women in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences the University of Groningen offers a prestigious fellowship programme, named after Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray studies of DNA were crucial to solving its structure. Five fellowships are available in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The fellowships will be awarded to outstanding women scientists from any of the disciplines mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, pharmacy, environmental studies, computing science and artificial
intelligence.
For further information see http://www.rug.nl/fwn/onderzoek/rff/index
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The MIT Media Laboratory is searching to hire several new tenure-track faculty. We seek candidates with a passion for building new technologies that
will bring dramatic improvements in the ways people live, learn, work, and play. In short, we are looking for candidates who are committed to
Inventing a Better Future.
To apply, please visit http://facultysearch.media.mit.edu/
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  Centre for Policy Modelling,                                                   
  Manchester Metropolitan University Business School                             
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