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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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Shape-Shifting Robot Forms From Magnetic Swarm - New Scientist (01/29/08) Simonite, Tom
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are developing robots that use electromagnetic forces to group together. The objective is to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into almost any form...
URL: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13244-shapeshifting-robot-form%0As-from-magnetic-swarm.html
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP:  COIN@AAAI'08 - Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms,co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, July 13-17 2008
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
CfP: The Second IASTED Africa Conference on Modelling and Simulation (AfricaMS 2008) Science and Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development, September 8 – 10, 2008
Gaborone, Botswana
URL: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-603.html
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CfP: MATES 08 - Sixth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies, September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
For more information visit: www.wi2.uni-trier.de/mates08
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CfP: Multiconf-2008, July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA
For more information visit: www.PromoteResearch.org
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2nd CfP: Workshop on Dynamics in Logic @ ESSLLI 2008 Hamburg, 4-8 August 2008
For more information visit: http://home.hib.no/ansatte/tag/dil08
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CfP: 5th International Conference on  Computational Management Science, Imperial College, London, 26-28 March 2008
For more information visit: http://cms2008.ps.ic.ac.uk/index.php?p=info&s=scope
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Call for Participation: GALA (Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents) at IVA 2008, 1-3 September, Tokyo
For more information visit: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/gala/
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Call for Expression of Interest: AAAI 2008 Fall Symposium Proposal: Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts,  November 7-9, 2008, Arlington, VA
For more information visit: http://www.stottlerhenke.com/AAAI08FallSymposium/
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) vol. 11, no.1, 2008
Peer-reviewed articles:
An Agent-Based Representation of the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice by Guido Fioretti and Alessandro Lomi
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/1.html

Cricketsim: a Genetic and Evolutionary Computer Simulation by Kyle Wagner and Kerry Shaw
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/3.html

Alternative Approaches to the Empirical Validation of Agent-Based Models by Scott Moss
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/5.html

A Cognitively Founded Model of the Social Emergence of Lexicon by Umberto Gostoli
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/2.html

Rethinking Lock-in and Locking: Adopters Facing Network Effects by Marc R.H. Roedenbeck and Barnas Nothnagel
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/4.html

Network Formation and Strategic Firm Behaviour to Explore and Exploit by Müge Özman
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/7.html

How to Choose the Bidding Strategy in Continuous Double Auctions: Imitation Versus Take-The-Best Heuristics by Marta Posada and Adolfo López-Paredes
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/6.html

Imitation and Cooperation in Different Helping Games by Giangiacomo Bravo
URL: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/8.html
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New Journal: International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATSI) - IGI Publishing
("The journal covers conceptual frameworks, case studies, empirical analysis, analytical and simulation models of agent anthropologies and sociologies, and their application.")
URL: www.igi-global.com/IJATSI
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Call for Book Chapters: Emergent Web Intelligence - To be published by Springer Verlag in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
For more information visit: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/
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Jordi Sabater-Mir and Mario Paolucci. On representation and aggregation of social evaluations in computational trust and reputation models
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Volume 46, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 458-483
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijar.2006.12.013
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Juan Pavón, Millán Arroyo, Samer Hassan and Candelaria Sansores. Agent-based modelling and simulation for the analysis of social patterns
Pattern Recognition Letters, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 August 2007
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2007.06.021
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L.E. García-Barrios, E.N. Speelman and M.S. Pimm. An educational simulation tool for negotiating sustainable natural resource management strategies among stakeholders with conflicting interests Ecological Modelling, Volume 210, Issues 1-2, 10 January 2008, Pages 115-126
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.07.009
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Reyer Gerlagh. A climate-change policy induced shift from innovations in carbon-energy production to carbon-energy savings
Energy Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 425-448
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2006.05.024
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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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2 PostDoc Position - Call for Expressions of Interest, The British University in Dubai Affiliated with the University of Edinburgh
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