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1. ESSA SIG Reputation Communication
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. 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. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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Cfp: WORKSHOP ON Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation Workshop (ECoMASS-2008) to be held as part of the 2008 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2008), July 12-16, 2008 (Saturday-Wednesday), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Organized by ACM SIGEVO
For more information visit: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~sevan/ecomass08/
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CfP: 14th International Conferene on Computing in Economics and Finance June 26-28, 2008 Sorbonne University, Paris
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008)
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Cfp: Jacek Krawczyk is organizing a session on "Parallel/Supercomputing" at the Computational Economics Conference ("CEF") in Paris
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008/
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Cfp: Jacek Krawczyk is organizing a session on "Parallel/Supercomputing" at the Computational Economics Conference ("CEF") in Paris
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008/
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Cfp: Ninth International Workshop on MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'08) to be held at The Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2008) Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008.
For more information visit: http://mabs2008.dcti.iscte.pt
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EURAM 2008: Managing Diversity - European Destiny and Hope 14 -17 May 2008, Ljubljana, Slovenia
For more information visit: http://www.euram2008.org
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Cfp: Workshop on AGENTS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION (ATT), AAMAS 2008, May, 12 or 13 - Estoril, Portugal
For more information visit: http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kluegl/att2008
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CfP: Second Annual Risk Management Conference to be held in Singapore, 30th June – 2nd July, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.rmi.nus.edu.sg/conferences/rmc2008
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Cfp: FOODSIM2008, Dublin, Ireland, June 26-28, 2008, FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS, 5th Bi-Annual MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN FOOD ENGINEERING 2008
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/105
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Rehmeyer, Julie J., "Social Networking for Zebras", Science News (12/01/07) Vol. 172, No. 22
URL: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071201/mathtrek.asp
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Last month a special issue of INDECS devoted to modeling related to human development and poverty, was published online and on paper. All full text articles are freely available from
URL: http://indecs.znanost.org.
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Bruno Contini, Matteo Morini, Testing Bounded Rationality against Full Rationality in Job Changing Behavior, 2007-11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp3148&r=cbe
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Alan Mehlenbacher, Multiagent System Platform for Auction Simulations, 2007-11-19
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:vic:vicddp:0706&r=cbe
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Coleman, Stephen, The Minnesota Income Tax Compliance Experiment: Replication of the Social Norms Experiment, 2007-11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:5820&r=cbe
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Kin Chung Lo, Risk, Ambiguity, and the Klibanoff Axioms, 2007-11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:yca:wpaper:2007_8&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities
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Agent-based modeling expert at Analyx: Analyx, a professional analytic services firm, is seeking to hire an Agent-based modeling expert in its Berlin or Poznan offices. A potential candidate would have a broad educational background, very good quantitative training and relevant experience in large agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) projects, ideally in practical applications of ABMS in telecommunications, retail, consumer goods, finance, pharmaceuticals, or policy decision support.
For more information visit: http://www.analyx.com/fileadmin/analyx/Jobs/Job_ABM_modeler.pdf
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The Ph.D program of the Cognitive Science department at RPI is accepting applications. Graduate assistantships and other forms of financial support for graduate students are available. The application deadline is Jan.15.
For more information visit: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/
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Faculty Recruitment - Intelligent Decision Support Systems Area, School of Information Systems (SIS), Singapore Management University (SMU), Openings for Faculty in Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Applications for research focused tenure-track positions are invited at all levels.
For more information visit: http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/careers/faculty_recruitment/idss_07-08.asp
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3 year PhD studentship to start as soon as possible, Human-Agent Collaboration for Distributed Sensemaking and Action at Knowledge Managemtn Institute For more infomration visit: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/studentship7.cfm
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Graduate Research Assistantships are available immediately to work on sustainability engineering and planning projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation at Rutgers University.
For more information contact Dr. Uta Krogmann (krogmann@aesop.rutgers.edu , 732-932-9800 ext. 6207) or Dr. Clinton Andrews (CJA1@rci.rutgers.edu , 732-932-3822 x721)
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