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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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Microsoft Preps New Modeling Language - " Microsoft is working on a new declarative programming language, a supporting editing tool, and other components for its Oslo model-driven development initiative, according to sources close to the company."  By: Darryl K. Taft, eWeek (02/05/08)
URL: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Microsoft-Preps-New-Modeling-Language/
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: 2nd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2008) (Deadline Extended to March 1, 2008)
For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss
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CfP: The Third International Workshop on Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN'08)  Workshop at AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008
For more information visit: http://ein.jssst.or.jp/ein/WEIN08/WEIN08.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: Workshop on Agent Based Computing V (ABC'08), Wisla, Poland, October 20-22, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.abc.imcsit.org
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Call for Participation: AITA08 - Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents, March 26-28 2008, Stanford University, California, USA.
For more information visit: http://krlab.cs.ttu.edu/~marcy/aita08
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CfP: 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-08), December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia
For more information visit: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/wi08/html/iat/
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CfP: Second Int. Workshop on Free/Libre Open Source Software: Open models and Cooperation within Online Communities, June 26 & 27, 2008, Rennes, France
For more information visit: http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/eric.darmon/floss
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CfP: The Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08),October 26-30, 2008, Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE

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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Call for Chapters: Nature-Inspired Informatics for Intelligent Applications and Knowledge Discovery: Implications in Business, Science and Engineering
Proposals Submission Deadline: 31 March 2008  - Full Chapters Due: 30 JUNE 2008
For more information contact: Raymond Chiong, School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) E-mail: rchiong@swinburne.edu.my
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Becu N., Neef A., Schreinemachers P. and Sangkapitux C. (2008) Participatory computer simulation to support collective decision-making: Potential and limits of stakeholder involvement. Land Use Policy. In press
URL: http://www.commod.org/pdf/Becu_2007_LUP.pdf
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Izquierdo, L.R. and Izquierdo, S.S. (2008) Dynamics of the Bush-Mosteller Learning Algorithm in 2x2 Games. . Chapter 11 in Reinforcement Learning. Theory and Applications, edited by Cornelius Weber, MarkElshaw and Norbert Michael Mayer. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 978-3-902613-14-1.
URL: http://www.luis.izquierdo.name/papers/rl-book/Izquierdo_Izquierdo_2008.pdf
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Situngkir, Hokky (2007) The Ribbon of Love: Fuzzy-Ruled Agents in Artificial Societies. Dept. Computational Sociology, Bandung Fe Institute
URL: http://cogprints.org/5509/
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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences including a Summer School on Modeling and Simulation for Young Scientists
Semper's lecture hall of ETH Zurich (Switzerland), August 18-23, 2008. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
For more information visit: http://www.soms.ethz.ch/workshop2008
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PhD Contracts at GTI-IA (UPV), Valencia - The Grupo de Tecnología Informática – Inteligencia Artificial offers 5 four-year PhD contracts for students pursuing a full-time PhD degree in
Artificial Intelligence in the area of multiagent systems.
For more information visit: http://www.dsic.upv.es/users/ia/ia.html
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Three PhD Studentships at the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey
Applications are invited for three UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Quota Studentships to commence in October 2008. ESRC full
studentships are open to UK residents, and EU-residents who have lived in the UK for over 3 years.
For more information visit: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/study/studentships2008.htm
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PhD Studentship in Social Insect-Inspired Algorithms for Decentralised Control in Distributed Computing (Bristol)
Supervising Institutions: Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, HP Labs, Bristol
For more information contact: Dr James Marshall (www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall)
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Grad Student Paper Contest: The Society for Computational Economics is pleased to announce a contest for outstanding graduate student papers. We are soliciting student papers
with a strong computational component, in any branch of economics, finance, and decision making. For more information visit: http://comp-econ.org/ or Christophe Deissenberg: christophe.deissenberg@univmed
.fr
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