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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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Google, UN Team Up for Refugee Mapping Project - Computerworld (04/09/08) Haverstein, Heather
URL: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076118&source=rss_news10
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2. 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, 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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CfP: Ninth International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 08), September 24-26 2008, Saint-Etienne, France
For more information visit: http://www.emse.fr/esaw2008
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CfP: Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, May 29 - June 1, 2008, California, U.S.A.
For more information visit:http://usjapan2008.mathematicalsociology.org/
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CfP: The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008) November 26-28, 2008 Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
For more information visit: http://bit.kuas.edu.tw/~isda08/
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CfP: The 11th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2008), December 15-16, 2008,Hanoi, Vietnam
For more information visit: http://www.prima-conf.org

CfP: AACC-08, ADAPTIVE AGENTS IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS AAAI Fall Symposium Arlington, Virginia, USA November 7-9, 2008
For more information visit: http://www.stottlerhenke.com/AAAI08FallSymposium/
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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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3. Recent Publications, Discussion Papers, Presentations
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CfP: DAAAM International Journal of Simulation Modelling - Call for Manuscripts
For more information visit: http://www.ijsimm.com/
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CfP: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (T-ITB) Special Issue:  Affective and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare
For more information visit: http://bme.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/TITB/
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Book: A field Guide to Genetic Programming by Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Nicholas F. McPhee
(with contributions from John R. Koza) ISBN 978-1-4092-0073-4
URL: http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/
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New Issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization Issue 10.1
URL: http://isce.edu/catalog/index.php?cPath=24
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Bouton, L. and Castanheira, M. (2008) One Person, Many Votes: Divided Majority and Information Aggregation
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:6695&r=cdm
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Lauwers, L. (2008) Topological Social Choice
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ete:ceswps:ces9912&r=cdm


Bénabou, R. (2008), Ideology
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:6754&r=cdm
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4. Job opportunities and Summer/Doctoral Schools
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PhD Studentship on China: Applications are invited for a doctoral researcher to work at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) on a project investigating the determinants and dynamics of farmers’ decision-making in rural municipalities in China. The post is available immediately, until 31st December 2010 a possible extension.

For informal discussions about the post, contact Dr. Kathrin Happe at happe@iamo.de (Tel. 0049 (0)345 2928 322). To send an application please email Kathrin Happe or post to Dr. Kathrin Happe, IAMO, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Postdoctoral Positions at CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal – deadline 19 April 2008
For more information visit: https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/cisucposdoc08/
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The eleventh ZUMA Simulation Workshop will be held from July 28 to August 1, 2008, at the Koblenz Campus of Koblenz-Landau University, Germany.
Lecturers: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Nigel Gilbert and Michael Möhring
For more information visit: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/Institutes/IWVI/AGTroitzsch/Teaching/current_teaching/20081_ZUMA
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Doctoral Symposium at MODELS, Toulouse, end of September/beginning of October 2008
For more information visit: www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/pretscha/events/models-doctsymp08/
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NECSI SUMMER SCHOOL -- June 16-July 4, 2008, MIT Cambridge MA, USA
For more information visit: http://www.necsi.edu/events/summer2008.html
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The Sixth European Summer School On Ontological Engineering And The Semantic Web (SSSW-2008), Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain, 6-12 July, 2008

For more information visit: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/sssw08/
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