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Subject: Fw: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 6(2) published
From: francois_bousquet (francois_bousquet@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 18:32:51 CEST
This issue of JASSS contains contributions of several members of this list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Gilbert" <n.gilbert@soc.surrey.ac.uk>
The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the second issue of Volume 6
on 31 March.
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.
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In this issue, there is a special section on "Role-Playing Games,
Models and Negotiation Processes", introduced by Olivier Barreteau,
with three papers on how role-playing games and agent-based models can
be used to assist in negotiation. Michel Etienne, Christophe Le Page
and Mathilde Cohen describe a multi-agent system to simulate strategies
of natural resource management in a limestone plateau dominated by a
rare grassland-dominated ecosystem endangered by pine invasion. They
conclude that their models contributed to improved decision-making by
National Park managers. In a second paper, Michel Etienne shows
role-playing games can provide a methodological framework on which to
base negotiation support tools. Oliver Barreteau proposes a
classification of joint uses of role-playing games and models and
considers their use as a 'post-normal' version of an experimental
approach to complex systems. Three more papers on Role-Playing Games
and Agent-Based Models will be published in the next issue of JASSS.
Also in this issue, Javier Pajares, Adolfo Lopez and Cesareo Hernandez
present a model of the evolution of industries, which they use to
explain the main observed facts in industrial life cycle dynamics: the
rise and fall of firms, concentration ratios, R&D expenditure and
path-dependence. Juergen Kluever, Christina Stoica and Jorn Schmidt
consider the general methodical foundations of computational sociology
and mathematical sociology.
In 1826, von Thuenen described a spatial pattern which he considered
to be an optimal solution to maximize society's well-being in a
hypothetical environment. Yuya Sasaki and Paul Box describe a model
to demonstrate that a collection of autonomous individuals can
contribute to the formation of this optimal pattern, without any
system-level optimization capabilities. Finally, H. Fort analyses the
self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of "selfish"
agents playing the pairwise Prisoner's Dilemma game (PDG).
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Refereed articles
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Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes: part I
Olivier Barreteau, Christophe Le Page and Patrick D'Aquino
Editorial introduction
Michel Etienne, Christophe Le Page and Mathilde Cohen
A Step-by-step Approach to Building Land Management Scenarios
Based on Multiple Viewpoints on Multi-agent System
Simulations
Michel Etienne
SYLVOPAST: a multiple target role-playing game to assess
negotiation processes in
sylvopastoral management planning
Olivier Barreteau
The joint use of role-playing games and models regarding
negotiation processes:
characterization of associations
Javier Pajares, Adolfo López and Cesáreo Hernández
Industry as an Organisation of Agents: Innovation and R&D
Management
Jürgen Klüver, Christina Stoica and Jörn Schmidt
Formal Models, Social Theory and Computer Simulations: Some Methodical
Reflections
Yuya Sasaki and Paul Box
Agent-Based Verification of von Thünen's Location Theory
H. Fort
Cooperation with random interactions and without memory or "tags"
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Forum: Discussion papers and work in progress (Forum editor: Klaus G.
Troitzsch)
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Olivier Barreteau and others
Our Companion Modelling Approach
François Bousquet, Paul Davidsson and Jaime Sichman
Report on the Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) 2002 workshop,
Bologna, Italy, July 2002
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Book Reviews (Review editor: Edmund Chattoe)
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Simulating Social Networks: A Review of:
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
Duncan Watts
Linked: The New Science of Networks
Albert-Lázló Barabási
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
Mark Buchanan
Reviewed by Frédéric Amblard
Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and
Groups
Edited by Michael Prietula, Kathleen Carley and Les Gasser
Reviewed by Rosaria Conte
Real-Time and Multi-Agent Systems
Ammar Attoui
Reviewed by Juan de Lara Jaramillo
Guided Evolution in Society: A Systems View
Bela H. Banathy
Reviewed by Carl Henning Reschke
Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution: Topics in Economics, Finance,
Marketing and Management
Edited by William A. Barnett, Carl Chiarella, Steve Keen, Robert
Marks and Herman Schnabl
Reviewed by James B. Wiley
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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 June 2003.
Submissions are welcome: see
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>
_______________________________________________________________________
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/>