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Subject: Call for papers
From: Christophe Le Page (christophe.l@chula.ac.th)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 03:41:35 CET
Modelling Related to Poverty and Human Development
The Journal Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (INDECS)
announces the special issue Modelling Related to Poverty and Human
Development, to be released as INDECS 5(2).
The motivation for that topic is to contribute to the Global Theme Issue on
Poverty and Human Development, initiated by the Council of Science Editors.
In particular, science journals throughout the world will simultaneously
publish papers on this topic of worldwide interest - to raise awareness,
stimulate interest, and stimulate research into poverty and human
development.
Human Development and Poverty are situated within a complex web of factors
of both local and global scale: environmental, political, economic,
religious, personal and other. We are looking for papers that describe parts
of this network and analyse the relationships between the many factors that
play a part in poverty and human development.
We hope that you will participate in this initiative by submitting articles
for the special issue, in order to help shed some light on these important
issues. Both papers presenting original research as well as viewpoint and
review articles, are invited. We do not wish to pose strict limits on
length, but we do encourage authors not to use more words than the topic
requires.
Research methods we are interested in include (but are not limited to)
simulations, agent based or otherwise, or other descriptive models of
complex real-world systems. The target research areas could be any of a
number of topics, that in some way relate to human development and poverty.
For example, in no particular order: urbanisation, war, charity,
over-fishing, trade, improved access to information, disease threats, recent
liberalisation trends in utilities, public traffic, public health care,
corruption, migration, human trafficking, energy demands. Insights in to the
research methods themselves are also welcome, answering questions like: How
to compare simulation results with data?
Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of
approximately 500 words by April 15, in order to enable us to give feedback
in an early stage. The deadline for full papers is June 1, 2007, to allow
sufficient time for review process. The common publication date for all the
journals participating in this theme issue will be Monday, October 22, 2007.
Joanna Bryson and Ivana Cace,
Guest editors
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Last modified: 30 January, 2007.