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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 Communicatio
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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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For all PhDs - Easy thesis topics
For more information visit: http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/braghava/systems-topic-generator.html
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Repast Simphony 1.0 is Now Available.
Form more information visit: http://repast.sourceforge.net
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NetWiki - Wikipedia on networks.
For more information visit: http://netwiki.amath.unc.edu/
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Summer institute social cognition, second Summer Institute -- to be held from June the 28th to July the 6th 2008, at the height of Montreal cultural
season
For more information visit: http://www.summer08.isc.uqam.ca
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Eric M. Mindich Conference on Computational Social Science, December 7, 2007, Center for Government and International Studies South, Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information visit: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/NewsEvents/Conferences/ESS/
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Interdisciplinary workshop on "Evolution and Physics", 401. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar, Evolution and Physics - Concepts, Models and Applications,  Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 21.01.2008 - 23.01.2008
For more information visit: http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/andrea-scharnhorst/heraeus.php
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2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) in conjunction with 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, May 5, 6 or 7, 2008
For more information visit: http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=saw2008
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4th International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, June 18th-20th, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/
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Workshop on Evolving synthetic societies, Leiden, February 25 -26, 2008
For more information visit: https://www.new-ties.org/
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International Conference on “Tax-benefit Microsimulation in the Enlarged Europe: Results from the I-CUE Project and Perspectives for the Future” ,
3-4 April 2008, Vienna
For more information visit: http://www.euro.centre.org/icueconference
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13TH ANNUAL EUROMEDIA CONFERENCE, DELFT uNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 25-27, 2007
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=node/147
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14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, PORTUGAL APRIL 9-11, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461
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ISC2008, INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION CONFERENCE 2008, Lyon, France, June 9-11, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/103
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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WIRED MAGAZINE: Wired Issue 15.12, How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic
URL: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-12/ff_futurewar?currentPage=all
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Steps Towards an Empirical Research Program in the Sociology of Communication, Luhmann Reconsidered
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/LuhmannReconsidered/index.htm and http://www.leydesdorff.net/LuhmannReconsidered/LuhmannReconsidered.pdf
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The Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2007 issue of the "Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter"
URL: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n12.html
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The h Index for Computer Science, J. E. Hirsch, Dept of Physics, UCSD
URL: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html
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5. Job opportunities
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Two job offers (postdoc and researcher) offers at the IAMO, "Economic dynamics and social equilibrium in rural China, sub-project "Resource-saving enterprise development"
For more information visit: http://www.iamo.de/iamo/institut/stellenangebote.html
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Applications are invited for a post doctoral fellow to join an interdisciplinary research team using quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the resilience and vulnerabilities of three indigenous rural Alaskan communities to social-ecological change. For further information contact: Gary Kofinas
Dept of Resources Management and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, ffgpk@uaf.edu, 907-474-7078.
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