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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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Most popular social network sites per country and region
For more information visit: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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2008 Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC'2008), June 9-11, 2008, Universite de Lyon, France
For more information visit: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php
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CfP: Fifth European Social Simulation Conference (ESSA 2008), Brescia, Italy, scheduled for September 1-5, 2008 (Deadline: May 1, 2008). A selection of the best papers will be included in two special issues on "The Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination" and on "Mind&Society" that will be published in 2009. Deadline for submissions on May 1st.
For more information visit: http://www.eco.unibs.it/essa/
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CfP: 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08) and the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08), 25-27 August 2008, Jinan, China
For more information visit: http://www.icnc-fskd2008.sdu.edu.cn
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APMOD08(APplied mathematical programming and MODelling), The conference will take place May 27-31, 2008 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
For more information visit: http://www.apmod2008.org/
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The 2008 ICPSR Summer Program will hold two four-week class sessions at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The first session will be held from June 23, 2008 through July 18, 2008. The second session will be held from July 21, 2008 through August 15, 2008.
For more informaiton visit: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/sumprog/course/0027.xml and http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/sumprog/course/0026.xml
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CfP: Third Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2008), July 7th, 2008, INRA Toulouse, France
For more information visit: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ws/cs-tiw2008
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Boero R., Castellani M. and Squazzoni F. (2008, in press), 'Individual behavior and macro social properties. An agent-based model', Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/wp3060177040107h/
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Kearns M., Suri S., Montfort N., An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks, Science 11 August 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5788, pp. 824 - 827, DOI: 10.1126/science.1127207
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Martin G. Kocher, Pogrebna G., Sutter M., The Determinants of Managerial Decisions Under Risk
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:inn:wpaper:2008-04&r=cbe
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Eliaz K., Rubinstein A., Edgar Allen Poe's Riddle: Do Guessers Outperform Misleaders in a Repeated Matching Pennies Game?, 2008-02-18
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levrem:122247000000001909&r=cbe
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Sylvain B., Bruno J., Expertise and Bias in Decision Making, 2007-01
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:7251&r=cbe
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Bagues M. F., Maria Jose Perez Villadoniga, Why do I like people like me?, 2008-02
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cte:wbrepe:wb080601&r=cbe
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Grosskopf B., Nagel R., Rational Reasoning or Adaptive Behavior? Evidence from Two-Person Beauty Contest Games, 2007-06
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:upf:upfgen:1068&r=cbe
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Bergstrom T., Sonstelie J., Rationality and Personality in a Restaurant Entry Game: Is there an Entrepreneurial Personality Type?, 2006-08-01
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cdl:ucsbec:2006a&r=cbe
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Küpper H. U., Sandner K., Differences in Social Preferences - Profitable for the Firm?, 2008-02-21
URL:     http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lmu:msmdpa:2122&r=cbe
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Marchiori D., Warglien M., Predicting Human Interactive Learning by Regret-Driven Neural Networks, 08/02/22, Science : 1111-1113.
URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5866/1111
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Gewin V., The New Networking Nexus, 08/02/21, DOI:10.1038/nj7181-1024a, Nature 451
URL: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2008/080221/full/nj7181-1024a.html
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Laubenbacher R., Jarrah A. S., Mortveit H., and Ravi S.S., A Mathematical Formalism for Agent-based Modeling, 2007/12/31, DOI: 0801.0249, arXiv
URL: http://uk.arXiv.org/abs/0801.0249


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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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Research position at Cardiff University, UK.
For more information visit: http://www.cf.ac.uk/jobs/academic/20080172-200308.html
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A postdoc opportuinity is available at the University of Sydney to work with Dr Liaquat Hossain.
For more information please contact: Liaquat Hossain, Ph.D. (lhossain@it.usyd.edu.au)
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