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1. From the editors ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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1. From the editors ...
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Dear ESSA members,
We would like to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous New Year!
cheers,
shah and bogdan

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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, held in Budapest, 26-30 June 2008.
Special session on "Agent-Based Social Simulation" (co-chaired by Nigel Gilbert, Flaminio Squazzoni, and Klaus Troitzsch)
- deadline for abstract on 15 January, write to squazzon@eco.unibs.it
For more information visit: http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/agentbased.pdf
Special session on "Experimental and Computational Approaches to Cooperation in Human Societies"
(co-chaired by Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni)
- deadline for abstract on 15 January, write to gbravo@eco.unibs.it
For more information visit: http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/pdf_reg/computational_experimental.pdf
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CfP: The 19th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2008), May 26 – 28, 2008, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
For more information visit: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/cfp-620.html
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CfP: Conference on Networks in Political Science, June 13-14, 2008, Harvard
For more information visit: http://www.apsanet.org/content_49261.cfm
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Call for Participation: Emergence in the physical and biological world, Erice (Italy), April 12-16 2008
For more information visit: http://www.plluisi.org/Erice2008/origin.htm
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Call for Papers: International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling,
Special Issue on: "Modelling and simulation of new business models"
Guest Editor: Peter Ball, Cranfield University, UK
For more information visit: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=100
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New Issue of Complexity, Volume 13 Issue 2 (November/December 2007)
Special Issue: Complex Systems Engineering
URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/38804/home
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Proceedings of the Agent2007 Conference, November 15-17, 2007, available online:
URL: http://agent2007.anl.gov/proceedings/proc2007.html
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Balázs Lengyel and Loet Leydesdorff, "Measuring the knowledge base in Hungary: Triple Helix dynamics in a transition economy"
URL: http://www.leydesdorff.net/hungary_th6/index.htm
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Marie-Anne Valfort, "Containing ethnic conflicts through ethical voting? Evidence from Ethiopia"
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hic:wpaper:35&r=cdm
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4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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Postdoctoral Position in Social Network Analysis using SIENA
The Center for Developmental Research, Örebro University, Sweden announces a 2-year postdoctoral research position. The position is
funded by a EUROCORES grant to a consortium led by Tom Snijders for analyses of network-behavioral models performed with the SIENA software
program http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/siena.html.

Applicants may send a CV and a 2-3 page description of (1) data analytic skills, (2) research interests, and (3) prior research experience by
February 1, 2008, to Håkan Stattin hakan.stattin@bsr.oru.se or Margaret Kerr margaret.kerr@bsr.oru.se. They should also provide the names and
contact information for three referees who know their work well.
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The 'International Scholar Exchange Fellowship' of South Korea.The deadline for applications is Friday, February 15, 2008.
For more information visit: http://www.kfas.or.kr/band/board/view.php?id=news_eng&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=29
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Third European PhD Complexity School: "Evolution in Biological Systems: From Molecules to Life and Language"
Torino, Villa Gualino , February 04 - 08, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.isi.it/progetti/3_phd_complex08/
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