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1. ESSA Communication: Elections 2008 for ESSA Office Bearers
2. ESSA SIG Reputation Panel at ESSA'08
3.  By the way
4. Conferences, CfPs and Symposiums
5. Recent publications and Discussion Papers
6. Job opportunities and Doctoral Schools
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1. ESSA Communication: Elections 2008 for ESSA Office Bearers
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Within the ESSA management committee (MC) the following 10 positions are available, all for a 2 year period

- President
- Treasurer & website coordinator
- Secretary and Vice President Publications
- VP Interest Groups
- VP Conferences
- VP Industrial Liaison & Sponsorship
- 3 Additional MC Members without Portfolio
- Past President (not elected)

The position for president, treasurer or secretary are voted for directly.
Other candidates will join the MC on the basis of their number of votes.

For candidature, questions, suggestions, contact:
Wander Jager (President ESSA)
w.jager@rug.nl
+31 50 363 4007

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2. ESSA SIG Reputation Panel at ESSA'08 Conference
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From Mario Paulocci:

The Reputation Special Interest Group  within the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) will be holding a panel at the Fifth ESSA annual conference, to be held in September 2008 in Brescia, Italy.

The SIG on Reputation acts as a reference point for researchers investigating, by the means of Agent Based Simulation, issues related to the theory and use of the technology of reputation.

Simulation of reputation systems is becoming more and more strategically important in expanding communities (e.g., e-markets and e-networks), since growth depends on increasing the volume of affairs, enforcing the norms and promoting the users' confidence by reducing fraudulent behaviour. This SIG is created to act as a reference point for researchers interested in tackling the above problems with the tool of agent based simulation.  The Reputation SIG calls for Papers tackling all aspects thematically relevant to the above issues.

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-Rep". 

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/ReputationSIGWikiPanelESSA08
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3. By the way
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Physics Journal May Reconsider Wikipedia Ban
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/14/1425247&from=rss
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4. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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World Congress in Social Simulation 08: Call for roundtables, panels and workshops:

The World Congress on Social Simulation welcomes proposals for roundtables, panels or workshops on social simulation. If you are interested, please send:

• A title,
• Scientist responsible name(s) and affiliation,
• About 500 words summary presentation,
• Name of chair moderating the discussion if not the scientist responsible,
• Name and affiliation of speakers having given an agreement (at least 4 participants),
• Estimate of the necessary time slot (not exceeding half a day).

To: guillaume.deffuant@cemagref.fr.

For more information visit: http://mann.clermont.cemagref.fr/wcss/Workshop_Submission
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CfP: 4th UK Social Networks Conference, 18-20th 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: DART 2008 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools September 10th, 2008 - Cagliari (Italy)

co-located with AixIA 2008 (http://www.diee.unica.it/aiia2008/)

For more information visit: http://www.dart2008.org/

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CfP: The 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08), 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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CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE'08), 19-21 June 2008, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
For more information visit: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/cfe08/
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CfP: Workshop on theories and methods for understanding human social networks, 23-27 June, 2008, Melbourne, Australia
For more information visit: http://www.sna.unimelb.edu.au/
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5. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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Scott E. Page, Uncertainty, Difficulty, and Complexity, Journal of Theoretical Politics 2008;20 115-149
URL: http://jtp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/2/115?etoc
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Fang Wu and Bernardo A. Huberman , Novelty and collective attention
URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/45/17599
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Pope R., Selten R., Kube S., Kaiser J., von Hagen J., Exchange Rate Determination: A Model of the Decisive Role of Central Bank Cooperation and Conflict, 2007-12
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse18_2007&r=cbe
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Reeson A., Institutions, Motivations and Public Goods: Theory, Evidence and Implications for Environmental Policy, 2008-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cse:wpaper:2008-11&r=cbe
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Gianluca G., Anirban K., Eugenio P., The Impact of (In)Equality of Opportunities on Wealth Distribution : Evidence from Ultimatum Games, 2008
URL:  http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wrk:warwec:843&r=cbe
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Cabrales A., Uriarte J. R., Doubts and equilibria, 2008-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cte:werepe:we080905&r=cbe
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J.-P. Onnela, J. Saramäki, J. Hyvönen, G. Szabó, D. Lazer, K. Kaski, J. Kertész, and A.-L. Barabási, Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks, April 24, 2007
URL: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0610245104v1
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6. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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Applications are invited for three-month fellowships within the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS), a programme funded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy for Arts and Sciences).
For more information contact: Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst (+ 31 20 850 0276) or (andrea.scharnhorst@vks.knaw.nl)
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A postdoctoral research position is available at the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Note that this position is limited to US citizens. For a sample of the flavor of research, please see:  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/networkinfodiffusion/
If you're interested, please email your current CV and a brief statement of interest to Lada Adamic (ladamic@umich.edu)
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Call For Participation: 10th European Agent Systems Summer School  (EASSS 2008), New University of Lisbon, Portugal, 5 - 9 May 2008
For more information visit: http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/events/easss08/
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Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Large-Scale Complex Systems: An inter-disciplinary Summer School on Complex Systems
Ambleside, The English Lake District, August 30-September 8, 2008, Application deadline 1st May
For more information visit: http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/Events_subweb/special/summer_school/summer_school_2008.html
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CfP: Short Summer Course in Advanced Methods for Social Network Analysis, Lisbon (Portugal ) , 7-11 July.
For more information visit :  http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~socius/home.html
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