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1. SIG Policy Communication: Call for Papers
2. By the way ...
3. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
4. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
5. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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1. SIG Policy Communication: Call for Papers
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From Kathrin Happe:
The ESSA Policy Special Interest Group invites submissions of papers for a special session on policy related issues and social simulation at the ESSA 2008 (http://www.eco.unibs.it/essa/) conference in Brescia, Italy. We particularly invite papers on the following issues:
- examples of and results from applied policy research
- reflections on the use of ABSS in policy analysis and support
- methods for using ABSS in policy support
- generation of new policy-relevant questions arising from simulations
- policy-design and rehearsal using ABSS
In line with the general call for papers, the deadline for submitting a full paper is 1 May 2008. Authors will receive a notification of acceptance by 1 June 2008. Papers are limited to 12 pages (including figures, tables and references) and should be written using the Springer lecture notes template.
Papers should be submitted via the official ESSA 2008 conference website stating in parentheses in the paper’s title “SIG-Policy”. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted for presentation, paper givers’ names will appear in the official ESSA 2008 program and their papers will be published in the ESSA 2008 proceedings.
For more information visit: http://www.essa.eu.org/simulation-wiki/PolicySIGWiki
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2. By the way ...
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Between Friends: Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the "social graph."  By Erica Naone
URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20223/
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https://networkx.lanl.gov/wiki
High productivity software for complex networks
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3. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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CfP: Fifth European Social Simulation Conference (ESSA 2008), Brescia, Italy, scheduled for September 1-5, 2008 (Deadline: May 1, 2008)
For more information visit: http://www.eco.unibs.it/essa/
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CfP: III Edition of Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation (EPOS 2008), October 2-3, 2008, Lisboa, Portugal
For more information visit: http://epos2008.dcti.iscte.pt/Main.php?contents=home.htm
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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: 2nd International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO 2008), Venice, Italy, October 20-24, 2008
For more information visit: www.saso-conference.org
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CfP: 4th UK Social Networks Conference, Friday 18th - Sunday 20th July 2008, University of Greenwich, London
For more information visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/schools/business/conferences-events/sna_conference
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CfP: The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA-08), September 1-3, 2008, Tokyo, Japan
For more information visit: http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iva2008/
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CfP: Special Session on Hybrid Systems Based On Negotiation and Social Network Modelling, in conjunction with the 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS'08). Burgos, Spain, September of 2008
For more information visit:http://www.dsic.upv.es/workshops/ss01-hais08/
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CfP: 'Distributed and Parallel Simulation' Track at the 20th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2008) Briatico, Italy, September 17-19, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.msc-les.org/conf/EMSS2008/index_file/DistrParallelMS.htm
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CfP: Sixth International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2008), September 22-24, 2008. Brussels, Belgium
For more information visit: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2008
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CfP: ISC'2008, June 9-11, 2008, Universite de Lyon I, Lyon, France
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/103
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Fourth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW-08), Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, Bldg 5100, May 12-14, 2008.
For more information visit: http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/csiirw
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MESM 2008, 9th International Middle Eastern Simulation Multiconference, August 26-28, 2008,  Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan
For more informaiton visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/205
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4. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Reinhard Laubenbacher, Abdul S. Jarrah, Henning Mortveit, S.S. Ravi (2008), 'A mathematical formalism for agent-based modeling'
URL: http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/0801.0249
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Takeshi Takama and John Preston, Forecasting the effects of road user charge by stochastic agent-based modelling'
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 20 February 2008
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Edmonds, B., Norling, E. and Hales, D. (2008, in press) 'Towards the Emergence of Social Structure',  Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.
URL: http://cfpm.org/cpmrep173.html
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Binswanger, J., Towards Understanding Life Cycle Saving Of Boundedly Rational Agents: A Model With Feasibility Goals, 2008
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:kubcen:200814&r=cbe
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Binswanger, J., A Simple Bounded-Rationality Life Cycle Model, 2008
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:kubcen:200813&r=cbe
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Claudia R. Sahm, Stability of risk preference, 2007   
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedgfe:2007-66&r=cbe
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Javier Rivas, Learning within a Markovian Environment, 2008   
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eui:euiwps:eco2008/13&r=cbe
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Sylvie Geisendorf, Are Genetic Algorithms a good basis for economic learning models?, 2007-12
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kas:poabec:2007-5&r=cbe
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5. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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'Post Doctoral Research Scientists: Modeling and Empirical Analysis of Large Scale Dynamic Social Networks'
The Information Systems Group and the Center for Digital Economy Research at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business are seeking postdoctoral researchers for projects involving */the modeling and empirical analysis of large/**/ /**/scale dynamic online social/* */networks/**. *The research scientists would work with
Professor Sinan Aral and Professor Arun Sundararajan on discovering and analyzing relationships between large scale dynamic online social networks, user behavior, user generated content, purchasing patterns and associated economic outcomes.
Interested candidates should send a copy of your CV and the names of two to four references via email with the subject line “/Post// //Doctoral
Research Scientist: Networks/” to Emily Harrison (eharriso@stern.nyu.edu), copying in Sinan Aral (sinan@stern.nyu.edu) and Arun Sundararajan (arun@stern.nyu.edu). There is no application deadline. Applications will be reviewed in the order they are received, and until the positions are filled.
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