ESSA Newsletter compiled Shah Jamal Alam and Bogdan Werth. Feel free to send/forward news and related contributions, which you would like to share with other members at { bogdan , shah } <at> cfpm <dot> org - We'll be pleased to include them into the following newsletter.

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1. ESSA 'SIG Reputation' Communication
2. By the way
3. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
5. Job opportunities
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1. ESSA 'SIG Reputation' Communication
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From Mario Paloucci:
Call for Participation - ESSA SIG Reputation

http://www.essa.eu.org/simulation-wiki/ReputationSIGWiki

The ESSA SIG on Reputation is coming! Please register your interest by writing to Mario Paolucci (mario.paolucci@istc.cnr.it).
Suggestions and advice welcome.
Initiatives include
 - a proposal for an AAMAS workshop (already on his way, in collaboration with the Trust workshop),
 - website collaboration,
 - a workshop co-located with the ESSA Conference
 - the unavoidable mailing list
 - possibly a presence on social networking websites (ideas please!)
 - perhaps a newsletter section.

Register now to support the initiative and to be updated as the SIG gets organised!
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2. By the way
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GAMA (Gis & Agent-based Modelling Architecture) is a generic ABM simulation platform based on Repast. It is both useable as a ready to use platform thanks to the GAML modelling language or as a framework to build your own architecture.

For more information visit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gama-platform/
http://www.ifi.auf.org/msi/spip.php?article=6
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: The 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-08), University of Stavanger, Norway, June 23-25, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.ux.uis.no/atc08/
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CfP: Workshop on “The Numbers We Use, the World We See : Evaluating Cross-National Datasets in Comparative Politics”, 11-16 April, 2008 at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops
For more information visit: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/rennes/
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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CFP special issue on Swarm Intelligence for Knowledge Discovery in Data -
For more information visit: http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/public/ndbaf65/CFP.pdf
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Rossi, G., Arteconi, S., Hales, D. (accepted) Evolving Networks for Social Optima in the “Weakest Link Game”.
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), Springer. Expected early 2008.
http://cfpm.org/~david/papers/rossi-cmot.pdf
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Edmonds, B., Norling, E., Hales, D. (accepted) Towards the Evolution of Social Structure.
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), Springer. Expected early 2008.
URL: http://cfpm.org/~david/papers/edmonds-cmot.pdf
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Proceedings of the Normative Multi-agent Systems, G. Boella, L. v. d. Torre, H. Verhagen (Eds.) ISSN  1862 - 4405,
Dagstuhl Seminar 07122
URL: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/index.php?semnr=07122
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Werth, B., Geller, A. and Meyer, R (2007). He endorses me – He endorses me not – He endorses me… Contextualized reasoning in complex systems,
Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Paper Series, CPM Report No.: 07-184
URL: http://cfpm.org/cpmrep184.html
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5. Job opportunities
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Postdoc Coordination Web Services (1,0 fte) -  For the European project ALIVE (Coordination, Organisation and Model Driven Approaches for Dynamic, Flexible, Robust Software and Services Engineering), we are looking for one postdoctoral researcher in the area of agent organisations and web services.

The ALIVE projects aims at the adaptation and reuse of coordination and organization mechanisms often seen in human and other societies as underlying model for new generations of software systems.
For more information visit: http://www.cs.uu.nl/research
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  Newsletter Editors:                                                            
  Shah Jamal Alam (shah<at>cfpm<dot>org)                                         
  Bogdan Werth (bogdan<at>cfpm<dot>org)                                          
  Centre for Policy Modelling,                                                   
  Manchester Metropolitan University Business School                             
  www.cfpm.org