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Subject: TR: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 6(3) published
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 05:17:45 CEST
Hello
In this new issue of JASSS three papers corresponding to the special
section on "Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes".
Plus many interesting papers of course.
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In this issue, Stephen Younger describes a simulation of the fate of an
artificial society in which the social structures have some resemblance
to those of simple hunter-gatherer societies and explores the
implications of different strategies for food and material storage.
Zhigang Wang and Warren Thorngate investigate the social consequences
of balancing sentiment relations among triads of members of a larger
group, when balancing one triad can imbalance others. Results show
that, regardless of the starting configuration of sentiments, all
imbalances in a group are eventually balanced in a steady state
containing no more than two subgroups.
There are two papers on simulating financial markets. Hiroshi
Takahashi and Takao Terano study a virtual financial market that
contains two types of investors, fundamentalists and
non-fundamentalists, and explore what happens when one or the other
type of investor predominates. Massimo Sapienza also uses a virtual
financial market to examine under what conditions agents who
incorporate option values when forming their trading prices obtain
higher profits.
The issue also features the concluding three papers in the special
section on "Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes",
edited by Olivier Barreteau: Patrick D'Aquino et al. describe an
experiment to provide people with the tools to build their own
participative simulations, William's Daré and Olivier Barreteau
investigate to what extent participants (Senegalese farmers) in role
playing games import their 'real' roles and rules of behaviour into the
game, and M. Duijn, L.H. Immers, F.A. Waaldijk and H.J. Stoelhorst
report on using a participative simulation to help policymakers deal
with the 'ill-structured problem' of dealing with traffic congestion in
an urban environment.
In the Forum section, Michael Agar reflects on the problems and perils
of translating ethnographic conclusions into an agent-based simulation,
and K K Fung and Shekhar Vemuri consider the major impact that the
choice of initial conditions can make on the outcome of a simulation.
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Peer-reviewed Articles
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Stephen M. Younger
Discrete Agent Simulations of the Effect of Simple Social Structures on
the Benefits of Resource Sharing
Zhigang Wang and Warren Thorngate
Sentiment and Social Mitosis: Implications of Heider's Balance Theory
Hiroshi Takahashi and Takao Terano
Agent-Based Approach to Investors' Behaviour and Asset Price
Fluctuation in Financial Markets
Massimo Sapienza
Do Real Options Perform Better than Net Present Value? Testing in an
Artificial Financial Market
Role-Playing Games, Models and Negotiation Processes: part II
Patrick D'Aquino, Christophe Le Page, François Bousquet and
Alassane Bah
Using Self-Designed Role-Playing Games and a Multi-Agent System to
Empower a Local Decision-Making Process for Land Use Management: The
SelfCormas Experiment in Senegal
William's Daré and Olivier Barreteau
A Role-playing Game in Irrigated System Negotiation: between Play
and Reality
M. Duijn, L.H. Immers, F.A. Waaldijk and H.J. Stoelhorst
Gaming Approach Route 26: a Combination of Computer Simulation,
Design tools and Social Interaction
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Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
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Michael Agar
My Kingdom for a Function: Modeling Misadventures of the Innumerate
K K Fung and Shekhar Vemuri
The Significance of Initial Conditions in Simulations
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Book Review (Review editor: Edmund Chattoe)
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Learning SIMUL8: The Complete Guide (and SIMUL8 Version 6)
by Jaret Hauge and Kerrie Paige
Reviewed by László Gulyás
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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 October 2003.
Submissions are welcome: see
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>
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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/>
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