FW: [JASSS] New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 7(4)

[Robert Holmes]

 

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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 4 of Volume 7 on
31-Oct-2004.

JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and
understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation.   It is
freely available, with no subscription.
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This issue features a special section on the use of logic in agent-based
simulation, edited by Frank Dignum, Bruce Edmonds and Liz Sonenberg, which
arose from a discussion at RASTA 2002.  The issue also includes four other
articles demonstrating the wide range of work now going on within social
simulation.

Following discussion among members of the Editorial Board, I am pleased to
announce that the Forum section will be encouraging the submission of short
reports on the independent replication of simulation experiments.
Submissions will be reviewed and judged on normal academic criteria, with
the focus on the replication of significant prior work.  This policy is
intended to recognise the necessity of independent replications in
demonstrating the verifiability of simulation results.

Two administrative matters:  
- the JASSS web site has moved to a much faster server, so papers should now
download to your browser much more quickly.
- it is now possible to submit articles to the journal over the web, at
http://www.epress.ac.uk/JASSS/webforms/author.php  (and this is now the
preferred method of submission).

Nigel Gilbert, Editor.

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Peer-reviewed Articles
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The Use of Logic in Agent-Based Social Simulation
   by  Frank Dignum, Bruce Edmonds and Liz Sonenberg
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/8.html>

Formal Systems and Agent-Based Social Simulation Equals Null?
   by  Maria Fasli
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/7.html>

Responsibility for Societies of Agents
   by  Rosaria Conte and Mario Paolucci
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/3.html>

Reasoning About Other Agents: a Plea for Logic-Based Methods
   by  Wendelin Reich
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/4.html>

Simulating political attitudes and voting behavior
   by  Johannes Kottonau and Claudia Pahl-Wostl
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/6.html>

Simulating SARS: Small-World Epidemiological Modeling and Public Health
Policy Assessments
   by  Chung-Yuan Huang, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Ji-Lung Hsieh and Holin Lin
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/2.html>

The Design of Participatory Agent-Based Social Simulations
   by  Ana Maria Ramanath and Nigel Gilbert
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/1.html>

Understanding MABS and Social Simulation: Switching Between Languages in a
Hierarchy of Levels
   by  Oswaldo Ter?n
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/7/4/5.html>

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Book Reviews    (Review editor: Edmund Chattoe)
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Edmund Chattoe reviews:
       Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Computational Finance
by Chen, Shu-Heng (ed.)

Itzhak Benenson reviews:
       Imitation in Animals and Artifacts by Dautenhahn, Kerstin and
Nehaniv, Chrystopher L. (eds.)

Glen Lesins reviews:
       Sociodynamics: a Systematic Approach to Mathematical Modelling in the
Social Sciences by Weidlich, Wolfgang


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The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page:
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk>.

The next issue will be published at the end of January, 2005.

Submissions are welcome: see
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>
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JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>
Editor: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK Forum Editor: Klaus G.
Troitzsch, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany Review Editor: Edmund Chattoe,
University of Oxford, UK
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