The "how to visualize ABMs" paper is particularly interesting http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html
-- Robert ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:15 AM Subject: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2) To: [email protected] The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation ( http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 12 on 31-Mar-2009. 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. ================= In this issue, we have 9 reviews of recent books related to social simulation and complexity, as well as articles on design guidelines for ABM visualisation, a survey of ABM platforms, a proposal for a new way of modelling social networks, and models of consensus and occupational inheritance in China. =============================================================== Peer-reviewed Articles =============================================================== How Groups Can Foster Consensus: The Case of Local Cultures by Patrick Groeber, Frank Schweitzer and Kerstin Press <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/4.html> Agent-Based Simulation on Women's Role in a Family Line on Civil Service Examination in Chinese History by Chao Yang, Setsuya Kurahashi, Keiko Kurahashi, Isao Ono and Takao Terano <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/5.html> Social Circles: A Simple Structure for Agent-Based Social Network Models by Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/3.html> Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization by Daniel Kornhauser, Uri Wilensky and William Rand <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html> =============================================================== Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch) =============================================================== Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Various Agent Based Modeling Platforms by Cynthia Nikolai and Gregory Madey <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/2.html> =============================================================== Book Reviews (Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni) =============================================================== Marco Castellani reviews: Reason and Rationality by Elster, Jon <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castellani.html> Gennaro Di Tosto reviews: Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means to Be Human by Friedenberg, Jay <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/di_tosto.html> Cristiano Castelfranchi reviews: Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Glimcher Paul W., Camerer Colin, Poldrack Russell, Fehr Ernst (Eds.) <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castelfranchi.html> Károly Takács reviews: Social and Economic Networks by Jackson, Matthew O. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/tak_aacute_cs.html> Domenico Delli Gatti reviews: Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy by Lim, G. C. and McNelis, Paul D. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/delli_gatti.html> Julie Dugdale reviews: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books) by Pentland,(Sandy) Alex <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/dugdale.html> Francesca Giardini reviews: Computable Models of the Law (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Casanovas Pompeu, Sartor Giovanni, Casellas Núria, Rubino Rossella (Eds.) <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/giardini.html> Blake LeBaron reviews: Agent-Based Modeling: the Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market Model Revisited (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) by Ehrentreich, Norman <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/lebaron.html> Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias reviews: Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems: V. 5 (Springer Series on Agent Based Social Systems) by Terano Takao, Kita Hajime, Takahashi Shingo, Deguchi Hiroshi (Eds.) < http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/hern_aacute_ndez-iglesias.html> =============================================================== 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 June 2009. Submissions are welcome: see < http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html> If you would like to assist in refereeing submissions to JASSS, go to http://www.epress.ac.uk/JASSS/webforms/new_referee.php ____________________________________________________________________________ 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: Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy ________________________________________________________________________ Sent from the EPRESS journal management system, http://www.epress.ac.uk
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