Fwd: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 6(2) published

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> From: Nigel Gilbert <[hidden email]>
> Date: Wed Apr 2, 2003  7:36:59  AM America/Denver
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: Vol. 6(2)=20
> published
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> The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation=20
> (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the second issue of Volume=20=

> 6 on 31 March.
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> JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration=20
> and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation.=20=

>  It is located at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>. It is freely=20=

> available, with no subscription.
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> In this issue, there is a special section on "Role-Playing Games,=20
> Models and Negotiation Processes", introduced by Olivier Barreteau,=20
> with three papers on how role-playing games and agent-based models can=20=

> be used to assist in negotiation.  Michel Etienne, Christophe Le Page=20=

> and Mathilde Cohen describe a multi-agent system to simulate=20
> strategies of natural resource management in a limestone plateau=20
> dominated by a rare grassland-dominated ecosystem endangered by pine=20=

> invasion.  They conclude that their models contributed to improved=20
> decision-making by National Park managers.  In a second paper, Michel=20=

> Etienne shows role-playing games can provide a methodological=20
> framework on which to base negotiation support tools.  Oliver=20
> Barreteau proposes a classification of joint uses of role-playing=20
> games and models and considers their use as a 'post-normal' version of=20=

> an experimental approach to complex systems.   Three more papers on=20
> Role-Playing Games and Agent-Based Models will be published in the=20
> next issue of JASSS.
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> Also in this issue, Javier Pajares, Adolfo Lopez and Cesareo Hernandez=20=

> present a model of the evolution of industries, which they use to=20
> explain the main observed facts in industrial life cycle dynamics: the=20=

> rise and fall of firms, concentration ratios, R&D expenditure and=20
> path-dependence.  Juergen Kluever, Christina Stoica and Jorn Schmidt=20=

> consider the general methodical foundations of computational sociology=20=

> and mathematical sociology.
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> In 1826,  von Thuenen described a spatial pattern which he considered=20=

> to be an optimal solution to maximize society's well-being in a=20
> hypothetical environment.  Yuya Sasaki and Paul  Box describe a model=20=

> to demonstrate that a collection of autonomous individuals can=20
> contribute to the formation of this optimal pattern, without any=20
> system-level optimization capabilities.   Finally, H. Fort analyses=20
> the self-organization into cooperative regimes of a system of=20
> "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
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>       Olivier Barreteau, Christophe Le Page and Patrick  D'Aquino
>       Editorial introduction
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>       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=20
> Simulations
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>       Michel Etienne
>       SYLVOPAST: a multiple target role-playing game to assess=20
> negotiation processes in
>            sylvopastoral management planning
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>       Olivier Barreteau
>       The joint use of role-playing games and models regarding=20
> negotiation processes:
>            characterization of associations
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>       Javier Pajares, Adolfo L=F3pez and Ces=E1reo Hern=E1ndez
>       Industry as an Organisation of Agents: Innovation and R&D=20
> Management
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>  J=FCrgen Kl=FCver, Christina Stoica and J=F6rn Schmidt
>  Formal Models, Social Theory and Computer Simulations: Some=20
> Methodical Reflections
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>  Yuya Sasaki and Paul  Box
>  Agent-Based Verification of von Th=FCnen's Location Theory
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>  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.=20=

> Troitzsch)
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> Olivier Barreteau and others
> Our Companion Modelling Approach
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> Fran=E7ois Bousquet, Paul Davidsson and Jaime Sichman
> Report on the Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS) 2002 workshop,=20
> 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-L=E1zl=F3 Barab=E1si
> Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
>  Mark Buchanan
> Reviewed by Fr=E9d=E9ric  Amblard
>
> Simulating Organizations: Computational Models of Institutions and=20
> 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,=20
> Marketing and Management
>  Edited by William A. Barnett, Carl Chiarella, Steve Keen, Robert =20
> Marks and Herman Schnabl
> Reviewed by James B. Wiley
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> The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page:=20
> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html>.
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> The next issue wil be published at the end of June 2003.
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> Submissions are welcome: see=20
> <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.
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> Simulation resources at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/>
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