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ESSA newsletter 165 - 03/26/2008 -> 04/2/2008
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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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FINAL 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences
For more information visit: http://www.core.edu.au/rankings/Conference%20Ranking%20Main.html
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Make your research known (Youtube-like web site for scientific research)
For more information visit: http://www.scivee.tv/
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Search engine for Computational linguistics
For more information visit: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017841009789079614384%3Akq2rufyow_0
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2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
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III Edition of Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, a Cross-Disciplinary Workshop, October 2-3, 2008, Lisbon University Institute - ISCTE, Portugal
For more information visit: http://epos2008.dcti.iscte.pt
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ESSA SIG-Social Conflict CfP at ESSA 2008, September 1-5, 2008, Brescia, Italy.
For more information visit: http://www.essa.eu.org/simulation-wiki/CallForPapersSIGOnSocialConflictAndSocialSimulation.
International Workshop on Complexity, Policy and Agents, 23 April 2008, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School in Manchester, UK.
For more information visit: http://cfpm.org/caves/CAVESWiki/Workshop
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COIN@AAAI'08, Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms, co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, July 13–17, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
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The 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) takes place in Sandton, South Africa from 13-18 July 2008.
For more information visit: http://www.ifors2008.org/
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RGS - IBG Annual International Conference 2008, 27 August - 29 August 2008, Royal Geographical Society, London
For more information visit: http://www.rgs.org/AC2008
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ESSID 2008, the European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics. The school will run from 01/09/08 to 06/09/08 in Monte Sant'Angelo in Puglia.
For more information visit: http://www.unibocconi.it/essid2008
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Complexity Group seminar "Making Complexity Work For Public Policy", Speaker Prof. Robert Geyer from Lancaster University (Department of Politics and International Relations), 11th April 2008 (2:15 pm – 4:30 pm), Graham Wallas Room (Fifth Floor), Old Building, LSE
For more information mail: ComplexityGroup@lse.ac.uk
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ESM2008,The 2008 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Le Havre, France, October 27-29, 2008
For more information visit: www.eurosis.org or http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/129
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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(From JASSS Announcement): New Issue of The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 11 on 31-Mar-2008. This issue includes articles on agent-based modelling approaches to religion and to conflict, and a set of papers addressing the comparison of social simulations through 'Model-to-Model' or M2M analysis.
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Ondrej Rydval, Andreas Ortmann, Michal Ostatnicky, Three Very Simple Games and What It Takes to Solve Them, 2008-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cer:papers:wp347&r=cbe
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Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch, Modeling Option and Strategy Choices with Connectionist Networks: Towards an Integrative Model of Automatic and Deliberate Decision Making,2008-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpg:wpaper:2008_2&r=cbe
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Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch, Do People Make Decisions Under Risk Based on Ignorance? An Empirical Test of the Priority Heuristic against Cumulative Prospect Theory, 2008-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpg:wpaper:2008_5&r=cbe
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Abraham Neyman, Learning Effectiveness and Memory Size, 2008-03-05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levrem:122247000000001945&r=cbe
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Antonio Cabrales, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, Giovanni Ponti, Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts, 2008-03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kud:kuiedp:0806&r=cbe
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Hannah Hörisch, Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? An experiment, 2008-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:trf:wpaper:229&r=cbe
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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher to work at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) in the EU-funded project PRIMA (Prototypical Policy Impacts on Multifunctional Activities in rural municipalities) which is due to start in June 2008.
For informal discussions about the post, contact Dr. Kathrin Happe at happe@iamo.de <mailto:happe@iamo.de> (Tel. 0049 (0)345 2928 322).
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8th annual CASOS Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
For more information visit: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/summer_institute/2008/
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!!! Please send news and related contributions to the editors!!!
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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
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
===================================================================================
1. By the way
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FINAL 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences
For more information visit: http://www.core.edu.au/rankings/Conference%20Ranking%20Main.html
--
Make your research known (Youtube-like web site for scientific research)
For more information visit: http://www.scivee.tv/
--
Search engine for Computational linguistics
For more information visit: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017841009789079614384%3Akq2rufyow_0
--
===================================================================================
2. Conferences, CfPs and contributions
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
III Edition of Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation, a Cross-Disciplinary Workshop, October 2-3, 2008, Lisbon University Institute - ISCTE, Portugal
For more information visit: http://epos2008.dcti.iscte.pt
--
ESSA SIG-Social Conflict CfP at ESSA 2008, September 1-5, 2008, Brescia, Italy.
For more information visit: http://www.essa.eu.org/simulation-wiki/CallForPapersSIGOnSocialConflictAndSocialSimulation.
--
International Workshop on Complexity, Policy and Agents, 23 April 2008, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School in Manchester, UK.
For more information visit: http://cfpm.org/caves/CAVESWiki/Workshop
--
COIN@AAAI'08, Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms, co-located with the 23th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, July 13–17, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
--
The 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) takes place in Sandton, South Africa from 13-18 July 2008.
For more information visit: http://www.ifors2008.org/
--
RGS - IBG Annual International Conference 2008, 27 August - 29 August 2008, Royal Geographical Society, London
For more information visit: http://www.rgs.org/AC2008
--
ESSID 2008, the European Summer School on Industrial Dynamics. The school will run from 01/09/08 to 06/09/08 in Monte Sant'Angelo in Puglia.
For more information visit: http://www.unibocconi.it/essid2008
--
Complexity Group seminar "Making Complexity Work For Public Policy", Speaker Prof. Robert Geyer from Lancaster University (Department of Politics and International Relations), 11th April 2008 (2:15 pm – 4:30 pm), Graham Wallas Room (Fifth Floor), Old Building, LSE
For more information mail: ComplexityGroup@lse.ac.uk
--
ESM2008,The 2008 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Le Havre, France, October 27-29, 2008
For more information visit: www.eurosis.org or http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/129
--
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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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(From JASSS Announcement): New Issue of The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 11 on 31-Mar-2008. This issue includes articles on agent-based modelling approaches to religion and to conflict, and a set of papers addressing the comparison of social simulations through 'Model-to-Model' or M2M analysis.
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Peer-reviewed Articles
============================= Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation? by James Dow <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/2.html>
REsCape: an Agent-Based Framework for Modeling Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict by Ravi Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik and Jonas Nart
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/7.html>
Progress in Model-To-Model Analysis by Juliette Rouchier, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, J. Gary Polhill and Keiki Takadama
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/8.html>
Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas by Segismundo S. Izquierdo, Luis R. Izquierdo and Nicholas M. Gotts
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/1.html>
Opinion Dynamics: the Effect of the Number of Peers Met at Once by Diemo Urbig, Jan Lorenz and Heiko Herzberg
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/4.html>
Using the ODD Protocol for Describing Three Agent-Based Social Simulation Models of Land-Use Change by J. Gary Polhill, Dawn Parker, Daniel Brown and Volker Grimm <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/3.html>
Horizontal and Vertical Multiple Implementations in a Model of Industrial Districts by Ugo Merlone, Michele Sonnessa and Pietro Terna
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/5.html>
Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects by Sylvie Huet and Guillaume Deffuant
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/10.html>
Micro- and Macro-Level Validation in Agent-Based Simulation: Reproduction of Human-Like Behaviors and Thinking in a Sequential Bargaining Game by Keiki Takadama, Tetsuro Kawai and Yuhsuke Koyama <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/9.html>
A Model-To-Model Analysis of Bertrand Competition by Xavier Vilà <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/11.html>
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Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
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Towards a Community Framework for Agent-Based Modelling by Marco A. Janssen, Lilian Na'ia Alessa, Michael Barton, Sean Bergin and Allen Lee
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/6.html>
Peer-reviewed Articles
============================= Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation? by James Dow <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/2.html>
REsCape: an Agent-Based Framework for Modeling Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict by Ravi Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik and Jonas Nart
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/7.html>
Progress in Model-To-Model Analysis by Juliette Rouchier, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, J. Gary Polhill and Keiki Takadama
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/8.html>
Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas by Segismundo S. Izquierdo, Luis R. Izquierdo and Nicholas M. Gotts
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/1.html>
Opinion Dynamics: the Effect of the Number of Peers Met at Once by Diemo Urbig, Jan Lorenz and Heiko Herzberg
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/4.html>
Using the ODD Protocol for Describing Three Agent-Based Social Simulation Models of Land-Use Change by J. Gary Polhill, Dawn Parker, Daniel Brown and Volker Grimm <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/3.html>
Horizontal and Vertical Multiple Implementations in a Model of Industrial Districts by Ugo Merlone, Michele Sonnessa and Pietro Terna
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/5.html>
Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects by Sylvie Huet and Guillaume Deffuant
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/10.html>
Micro- and Macro-Level Validation in Agent-Based Simulation: Reproduction of Human-Like Behaviors and Thinking in a Sequential Bargaining Game by Keiki Takadama, Tetsuro Kawai and Yuhsuke Koyama <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/9.html>
A Model-To-Model Analysis of Bertrand Competition by Xavier Vilà <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/11.html>
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Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
==============================
Towards a Community Framework for Agent-Based Modelling by Marco A. Janssen, Lilian Na'ia Alessa, Michael Barton, Sean Bergin and Allen Lee
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/6.html>
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Ondrej Rydval, Andreas Ortmann, Michal Ostatnicky, Three Very Simple Games and What It Takes to Solve Them, 2008-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cer:papers:wp347&r=cbe
--
Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch, Modeling Option and Strategy Choices with Connectionist Networks: Towards an Integrative Model of Automatic and Deliberate Decision Making,2008-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpg:wpaper:2008_2&r=cbe
--
Andreas Glöckner, Tilmann Betsch, Do People Make Decisions Under Risk Based on Ignorance? An Empirical Test of the Priority Heuristic against Cumulative Prospect Theory, 2008-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mpg:wpaper:2008_5&r=cbe
--
Abraham Neyman, Learning Effectiveness and Memory Size, 2008-03-05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cla:levrem:122247000000001945&r=cbe
--
Antonio Cabrales, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, Giovanni Ponti, Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts, 2008-03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kud:kuiedp:0806&r=cbe
--
Hannah Hörisch, Is the veil of ignorance only a concept about risk? An experiment, 2008-02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:trf:wpaper:229&r=cbe
--
====================================================================================
4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher to work at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) in the EU-funded project PRIMA (Prototypical Policy Impacts on Multifunctional Activities in rural municipalities) which is due to start in June 2008.
For informal discussions about the post, contact Dr. Kathrin Happe at happe@iamo.de <mailto:happe@iamo.de> (Tel. 0049 (0)345 2928 322).
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8th annual CASOS Summer Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
For more information visit: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/summer_institute/2008/
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This newsletter is distributed only to members of the European Social Simulation Association for their own use. Please do not distribute further. To join ESSA, register at: http://essa.eu.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter Editors: Shah Jamal Alam (shah<at>cfpm<dot>org) Bogdan Werth (bogdan<at>cfpm<dot>org) Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School www.cfpm.org |
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