JASSS: vol.3, issue 3 published

[Nigel Gilbert]

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The latest issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social 
Simulation (JASSS) was published on June 30.

JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration 
and understanding of social processes by means of computer 
simulation.  It is at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>.  It is 
freely available, with no subscription.

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New:  Articles in JASSS are now included in:
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                Current Contents
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The new issue includes:

Refereed Articles

Evelien P.H. Zeggelink, Henk de Vos and Donald Elsas
Reciprocal altruism and group formation: The degree of segmentation 
of reciprocal altruists who prefer 'old-helping-partners'

Peter Tucker and Isobel Fletcher
Simulating Household Waste Management Behaviours Part 2: Home Composting


Forum

Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou and John Zola
AgentSheets: End-User Programmable Simulations

Joaquim Carvalho
Using AgentSheets to teach simulation to undergraduate students



Reviews

Distributed Artificial Intelligence Meets Machine Learning: Learning 
in Multi-Agent Environments
Edited by Gerhard Weiss

Reviewed by Paul D. Scott


Modeling Rationality, Morality and Evolution
Edited by Peter A. Danielson

Reviewed by Shepley Orr


Simulation for the Social Scientist
Nigel Gilbert and Klaus G. Troitzsch

Reviewed by Andrea Schertler

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CALL for PAPERS:
There is an open call for papers for a special issue of JASSS on:
  "Starting from Society - the application of social analogies to 
computational systems". This issue will be co-edited by Bruce Edmonds 
and Kerstin Dautenhahn. The deadline for submissions is 1st September 
2000.  For more details please see the special issue web page at: 
<http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce/sfs/jasss.html>


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Professor Nigel Gilbert, Director of CRESS, the Centre for Research on
Simulation in the Social sciences, http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/cress
and Editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social 
Simulation, http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, England


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