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ESSA newsletter 155 - 01/08/2008 -> 01/14/2008
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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To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org
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!!! Please send news and related contributions to the editors!!!
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1. by the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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1. by the way ...
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Swarming simulation in the news
In an article about the Iran/US naval encounter last week.
"In a telephone interview, Van Riper recalled that his idea of a swarming attack grew from Marine Corps studies of the natural world, where insects and animals --- from tiny ant colonies to wolf packs --- move in groups to overwhelm larger prey."
URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/12/america/12navy.php?page
(courtesy: Jonna Bryson)
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The Social Learning Strategies Tournament
URL: http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament/Social_Learning_Strategies_Tournament_Rules_for_entry.pdf
(courtesy: Pablo Lucas)
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The Oxford Internet Institute (OII), in collaboration with the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science (NCESS), survey on the 'role of information and communication technologies such as the Internet in social research'.
URL: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector//Survey.ashx?Name=NCeSS_Survey_2008_Auth&LoginId=2008010851
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Mathematical Tools For Forecasting Stock Market Work For Ecology Too - ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2008)
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080104171618.htm
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Usefull article for applicants to PhD programs in computer science
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
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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: Ninth International Workshop on MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'08)
For more information visit: http://mabs2008.dcti.iscte.pt
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CfP: 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS-2008), George Mason University, Fairfax - July 14-17, 2008
For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss/
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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: Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 13–17, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
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CfP: AISB'08 Convention - Theme: "Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence".
For more information visit: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/index.html
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Last CfP: First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 08), June 17, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan - in conjunction with the Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2008)
For more information visit: http://www.socomputing.org
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CfP: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Open Complex Systems: Metasynthesis of Computing Paradigms (EOCS-MCP2008) Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008
- In conjunction with 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.agentmining.org/eocsmcp
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CfP: Artificial Life XI - The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 5th - 8th August 2008, Winchester, UK
For more information visit: www.alifexi.org
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CfP: Sessions on Asset Markets and the Macroeconomy in Economics and Finance, Paris, France, June 26-28, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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SUGARSCAPE ON STEROIDS: SIMULATING OVER A MILLION AGENTS AT INTERACTIVE RATES. R. M. D’SOUZA *, Dept. of MEEM, Michigan Tech. University M. LYSENKO, Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan Tech. University. K. RAHMANI, Dept. of MEEM, Michigan Tech. University
URL: http://www.me.mtu.edu/~rmdsouza/Papers/2007/SugarScape_GPU.pdf
For more information visit: http://www.me.mtu.edu/~rmdsouza/ABM_GPU.html
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Social Science Computer Review on e-Social Science
Guest Editors: Peter Halfpenny and Rob Procter
For more information contact Rob Procter (rob.procter@manchester.ac.uk)
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of "Knowledge Management Research & Practice"
Knowledge Management and e-Research Technologies: to Codify or to Collaborate?
Guest Editors: Will Venters, London School of Economics Elaine Ferneley, Salford Business School
For more information visit: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/call_for_papers.html
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Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall (2007), The Web impact of open access social science research, Library & Information Science Research 29 (2007) 495–507
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2007.05.003
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M. Neumann (2007), Complexity Of Social Stability: A Model-To-Model Analysis Of Yugoslavia's Decline, Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 5(2)
URL: http://indecs.znanost.org/2007/indecs2007-pp92-111.html
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University of Chicago Press Journals (2008, January 5). Mathematical Tools For Forecasting Stock Market Work For Ecology.
--
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html
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Are Some Deaths Worse Than Others? The Effect of ‘Labelling’ on People’s Perceptions, 2007-12, Anne Spencer, Judith Covey, Angela Robinson, Graham Loomes
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:qmw:qmwecw:wp620&r=cbe
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A Business-Relevant View of Human Nature, 2007-11-19, Mitreanu, Cristian
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:6560&r=cbe
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Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages, 2007 ,Markus Pannenberg
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp23&r=cbe
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Risky Choice and Type-Uncertainty in "Deal or No Deal?", 2007-11, Gee, C.
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camdae:0758&r=cbe
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An Agent-Based Model of Behavior in “Beauty Contest” Games, 2007-11, Mark W. Nichols, Michael J. Radzicki
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unr:wpaper:07-010&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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Post-doc position in Groningen.
In Groningen we start a 3-year project on the development of an agent based model of consumer behaviour, specifically targeting consumptive behaviour of agricultural products. We are looking for a candidate with experience in agent-based modelling and a proven interest in consumer behaviour and marketing.
Interested? Contact Wander Jager: w.jager@rug.nl, phone +31 50 363 4007
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Research Associate Vacancy at NCeSS Hub - Ref: HUM/70376
The NCeSS Hub wishes to appoint an Economist, Econometrician, quantitative Social Scientist, or Computer Scientist with extensive experience of working with economic and social scientists, as a Research Associate to extend NCeSS's capacity to contribute to the ESRC's National Data Strategy, which aims to develop a data infrastructure capable of delivering all the data necessary to address current and future research needs in the social sciences. The post-holder will investigate how advanced computing tools and services (in the form of an e-Infrastructure) can encourage and assist economic and social researchers to use (and re-use) quantitative data in addressing their substantive research challenges.
For more information visit http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=129618
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PhD-researcher: Evidence-Based Simulation of the Hydrogen System
For more information visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/XD145/PhD-researcher_Evidence-Based_Simulation_of_the_Hydrogen_System_10_fte/
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Second Thematic School on New Trends in Mathematics of Complex Systems
Organized by The Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris, March 10-14, 2008.
For more information visit: http://iscpif.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Ecole+Mars+08&bl
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=========================================================================================
This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation Association for their own use. Please do not distribute further.
To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!!! Please send news and related contributions to the editors!!!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. by the way ...
2. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
3. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===================================================================================
1. by the way ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Swarming simulation in the news
In an article about the Iran/US naval encounter last week.
"In a telephone interview, Van Riper recalled that his idea of a swarming attack grew from Marine Corps studies of the natural world, where insects and animals --- from tiny ant colonies to wolf packs --- move in groups to overwhelm larger prey."
URL: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/12/america/12navy.php?page
(courtesy: Jonna Bryson)
--
The Social Learning Strategies Tournament
URL: http://www.intercult.su.se/cultaptation/tournament/Social_Learning_Strategies_Tournament_Rules_for_entry.pdf
(courtesy: Pablo Lucas)
--
The Oxford Internet Institute (OII), in collaboration with the UK's National Centre for e-Social Science (NCESS), survey on the 'role of information and communication technologies such as the Internet in social research'.
URL: http://survey.oii.ox.ac.uk/Collector//Survey.ashx?Name=NCeSS_Survey_2008_Auth&LoginId=2008010851
--
Mathematical Tools For Forecasting Stock Market Work For Ecology Too - ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2008)
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080104171618.htm
--
Usefull article for applicants to PhD programs in computer science
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf
--
===================================================================================
2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
--
CfP: Ninth International Workshop on MULTI-AGENT-BASED SIMULATION (MABS'08)
For more information visit: http://mabs2008.dcti.iscte.pt
--
CfP: 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS-2008), George Mason University, Fairfax - July 14-17, 2008
For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss/
--
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
--
CfP: Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 13–17, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
--
CfP: AISB'08 Convention - Theme: "Communication, Interaction and Social Intelligence".
For more information visit: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/index.html
--
Last CfP: First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 08), June 17, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan - in conjunction with the Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2008)
For more information visit: http://www.socomputing.org
--
CfP: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Open Complex Systems: Metasynthesis of Computing Paradigms (EOCS-MCP2008) Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008
- In conjunction with 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.agentmining.org/eocsmcp
--
CfP: Artificial Life XI - The Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 5th - 8th August 2008, Winchester, UK
For more information visit: www.alifexi.org
--
CfP: Sessions on Asset Markets and the Macroeconomy in Economics and Finance, Paris, France, June 26-28, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/cef2008/
--
===================================================================================
3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUGARSCAPE ON STEROIDS: SIMULATING OVER A MILLION AGENTS AT INTERACTIVE RATES. R. M. D’SOUZA *, Dept. of MEEM, Michigan Tech. University M. LYSENKO, Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan Tech. University. K. RAHMANI, Dept. of MEEM, Michigan Tech. University
URL: http://www.me.mtu.edu/~rmdsouza/Papers/2007/SugarScape_GPU.pdf
For more information visit: http://www.me.mtu.edu/~rmdsouza/ABM_GPU.html
--
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Social Science Computer Review on e-Social Science
Guest Editors: Peter Halfpenny and Rob Procter
For more information contact Rob Procter (rob.procter@manchester.ac.uk)
--
Call for Papers: Special Issue of "Knowledge Management Research & Practice"
Knowledge Management and e-Research Technologies: to Codify or to Collaborate?
Guest Editors: Will Venters, London School of Economics Elaine Ferneley, Salford Business School
For more information visit: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/call_for_papers.html
--
Kayvan Kousha and Mike Thelwall (2007), The Web impact of open access social science research, Library & Information Science Research 29 (2007) 495–507
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2007.05.003
--
M. Neumann (2007), Complexity Of Social Stability: A Model-To-Model Analysis Of Yugoslavia's Decline, Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 5(2)
URL: http://indecs.znanost.org/2007/indecs2007-pp92-111.html
--
University of Chicago Press Journals (2008, January 5). Mathematical Tools For Forecasting Stock Market Work For Ecology.
--
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html
--
Are Some Deaths Worse Than Others? The Effect of ‘Labelling’ on People’s Perceptions, 2007-12, Anne Spencer, Judith Covey, Angela Robinson, Graham Loomes
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:qmw:qmwecw:wp620&r=cbe
--
A Business-Relevant View of Human Nature, 2007-11-19, Mitreanu, Cristian
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:6560&r=cbe
--
Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages, 2007 ,Markus Pannenberg
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp23&r=cbe
--
Risky Choice and Type-Uncertainty in "Deal or No Deal?", 2007-11, Gee, C.
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camdae:0758&r=cbe
--
An Agent-Based Model of Behavior in “Beauty Contest” Games, 2007-11, Mark W. Nichols, Michael J. Radzicki
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unr:wpaper:07-010&r=cbe
--
===================================================================================
4. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Post-doc position in Groningen.
In Groningen we start a 3-year project on the development of an agent based model of consumer behaviour, specifically targeting consumptive behaviour of agricultural products. We are looking for a candidate with experience in agent-based modelling and a proven interest in consumer behaviour and marketing.
Interested? Contact Wander Jager: w.jager@rug.nl, phone +31 50 363 4007
--
Research Associate Vacancy at NCeSS Hub - Ref: HUM/70376
The NCeSS Hub wishes to appoint an Economist, Econometrician, quantitative Social Scientist, or Computer Scientist with extensive experience of working with economic and social scientists, as a Research Associate to extend NCeSS's capacity to contribute to the ESRC's National Data Strategy, which aims to develop a data infrastructure capable of delivering all the data necessary to address current and future research needs in the social sciences. The post-holder will investigate how advanced computing tools and services (in the form of an e-Infrastructure) can encourage and assist economic and social researchers to use (and re-use) quantitative data in addressing their substantive research challenges.
For more information visit http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/research/vacancy/index.htm?ref=129618
--
PhD-researcher: Evidence-Based Simulation of the Hydrogen System
For more information visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/XD145/PhD-researcher_Evidence-Based_Simulation_of_the_Hydrogen_System_10_fte/
--
Second Thematic School on New Trends in Mathematics of Complex Systems
Organized by The Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris, March 10-14, 2008.
For more information visit: http://iscpif.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Ecole+Mars+08&bl
--
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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This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation Association for their own use. Please do not distribute further. To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 |
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