Fwd: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 16(3)

[Owen Densmore]

The new JASSS has an article on passwords:  SimPass: Quantifying the Impact of Password Behaviours and Policy Directives on an Organisation's Systems 

.. sorta a TranSims for password/security policy!

   -- Owen

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Subject: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 16(3)
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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation published issue 3 of Volume 16 on 30-Jun-2013.

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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Peer-reviewed Articles

• Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: DIAL, A Dialogical Model for Opinion Dynamics
  by Piter Dykstra, Corinna Elsenbroich, Wander Jager, Gerard Renardel de Lavalette and Rineke Verbrugge
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/4.html
  
  
• Asking the Oracle: Introducing Forecasting Principles into Agent-Based Modelling
  by Samer Hassan, Javier Arroyo, José Manuel Galán, Luis Antunes and Juan Pavón
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/13.html
  
  
• SimPass: Quantifying the Impact of Password Behaviours and Policy Directives on an Organisation's Systems
  by Karen Renaud and Lewis Mackenzie
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/3.html
  
  
• The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation
  by Max Hartshorn, Artem Kaznatcheev and Thomas Shultz
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html
  
  
• Combination of Empirical Study with Qualitative Simulation for Optimization Problem in Mobile Banking Adoption
  by Xiaochao Wei, Bin Hu and Kathleen M Carley
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/10.html
  
  
• Analysis of Asymmetric Two-Sided Matching: Agent-Based Simulation with Theorem-Proof Approach
  by Naoki Shiba
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/11.html
  
  
• Simulation Analysis of the Blocking Effect of Transaction Costs in China's Housing Market
  by Hong Zhang, Yue Wang, Yin Lin, Yang Zhang and Michael J. Seiler
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/8.html
  
  
• An Abstract Model Showing That the Spatial Structure of Social Networks Affects the Outcomes of Cultural Transmission Processes
  by Andrew White
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/9.html
  
  
• Techno-Social Energy Infrastructure Siting: Sustainable Energy Modeling Programming (SEMPro)
  by Mark Abdollahian, Zining Yang and Hal Nelson
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/6.html
  
  

Forum

(Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)

• Why Simulate? To Develop a Mental Model
  by Andrzej Nowak, Agnieszka Rychwalska and Wojciech Borkowski
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/12.html
  
  
• Pitfalls in Spatial Modelling of Ethnocentrism: A Simulation Analysis of the Model of Hammond and Axelrod
  by Fredrik Jansson
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/2.html
  
  
• Modelling the Economy as an Agent-Based Process: ABCE, A Modelling Platform and Formal Language for ACE
  by Davoud Taghawi-Nejad
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/1.html
  
  
• Building Mic-Core, a Specialized M&S Software to Simulate Multi-State Demographic Micro Models, Based on JAMES II, a General M&S Framework
  by Sabine Zinn, Jan Himmelspach, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher and Jutta Gampe
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/5.html
  
  

Book Reviews

(Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni)

• Patrick Doreian reviews:
  Networks: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Caldarelli, Guido and Catanzaro, Michele
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/reviews/1.html
  
  
• Julia Schindler reviews:
  Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation by Cronk, Lee and Leech, Beth L.
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/reviews/3.html
  
  
• Bruce Edmonds reviews:
  The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Silver, Nate
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/reviews/2.html
  
  
• John Bragin reviews:
  Cognitive Agent-Based Computing-I: a Unified Framework for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems Using Agent-Based & Complex Network-Based Methods (SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation) by Niazi, Muaz A and Hussain, Amir
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/reviews/4.html
  
  
  

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The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page. The next issue will be published at the end of October 2013.

If you have a PhD or are close to completing one, you can contribute to maintaining the quality of JASSS by volunteering to referee article submissions.

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JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION

Editor: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
Forum Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany
Review Editor: Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
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