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Subject: Fw: JASSS: Vol. 5(1) published
From: francois_bousquet (francois_bousquet@hotmail.com)
Date: lun fév 04 2002 - 17:14:58 CET
> The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
> (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the first issue of Volume 5
> on January 31st. JASSS has published an issue every quarter without
> fail since 1998 and has gradually built up a large and loyal readership
> (about 900 web pages from the journal are requested from all over the
> world every day!) and receives a steady stream of high quality
> submissions.
>
> JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and
> understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It
> is located at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>. It is freely
> available, with no subscription.
>
> =================
>
> This issue has four refereed articles, three contributions to the Forum
> section, and six book reviews.
>
>
> Refereed articles
>
> Flaminio Squazzoni and Riccardo Boero continue the debate about Italian
> industrial districts (see also Guido Fioretti's article in the previous
> issue). Volker Müller-Benedict develops some of the ideas of the
> American sociologist James Coleman, putting them into a social
> simulation framework. Chris Goldspink considers the general
> methodological implications of what he describes as the "growing
> advocacy for the adoption of computational methods as a substitute for,
> or complement to, traditional research methods". Deitrich Stauffer, a
> leading statistical physicist, introduces the very recent Sznajd model
> and shows how it can be applied to understanding the distribution of
> votes in an election.
>
> Flaminio Squazzoni and Riccardo Boero
> Economic Performance, Inter-Firm Relations and Local Institutional
> Engineering in a Computational Prototype of Industrial Districts
>
> Volker Müller-Benedict
> Xenophobia and Social Closure: A Development of a Model from Coleman
>
> Chris Goldspink
> Methodological Implications Of Complex Systems Approaches to Sociality:
> Simulation as a foundation for knowledge
>
> Dietrich Stauffer
> Monte Carlo simulations of Sznajd models
>
> =================
>
> Forum
>
> Ted Metzler
> Can Agent-Based Simulation Improve Dialogue between Science and Theology?
>
> Inga Tomic-Koludrovic, Mirko Petric and Ivica Mitrovic
> Mixed Reality or One Reality: A Socio-Semiotic Approach to Hybrid
> Multiagent Environments
>
> Paul Davidsson
> Agent Based Social Simulation: A Computer Science View
>
> =================
>
> Reviews
>
> Political Complexity: Non Linear Models of Politics
> Edited by Diana Richards
> Reviewed by J. Theodore Anagnoson
>
> Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics
> Edited by Thomas Brenner
> Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe
>
> Trust in Virtual Societies
> Edited by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan
> Reviewed by Helder Coelho
>
> Reasoning about Rational Agents
> Michael Wooldridge
> Reviewed by Bruce Edmonds
>
> Evolution's Arrow: The Directions of Evolution and the Future of Humanity
> John Stewart
> Reviewed by David Hales
>
> Multi-Agent-Based Simulation: Proceedings of the Second International
> Workshop (MABS 2000)
> Edited by Scott Moss and Paul Davidsson
> Reviewed by Michael Möhring and Klaus G. Troitzsch
>
> =================
>
> The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page:
> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>
>
> The next issue wil be published at the end of March 2002.
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Professor Nigel Gilbert, Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
> Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>.
> Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences (CRESS),
> Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
> Tel:+44 1483 689173 Fax:+44 1483 689551 N.Gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk
> Simulation resources at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________________
> Professor Nigel Gilbert, FREng, AcSS, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor
> of
> Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
> 689173