JASSS: Vol. 5(1) published

[Nigel Gilbert]

The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the first issue of Volume 5
on January 31st.  JASSS has published an issue every quarter without
fail since 1998 and has gradually built up a large and loyal readership
(about 900 web pages from the journal are requested from all over the
world every day!) and receives a steady stream of high quality
submissions.

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

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This issue has four refereed articles, three contributions to the Forum
section, and six book reviews.


Refereed articles

Flaminio Squazzoni and Riccardo Boero continue the debate about Italian
industrial districts (see also Guido Fioretti's article in the previous
issue).  Volker M

üller-Benedict develops some of the ideas of the
American sociologist James Coleman, putting them into a social
simulation framework.  Chris Goldspink considers the general
methodological implications of what he describes as the "growing
advocacy for the adoption of computational methods as a substitute for,
or complement to, traditional research methods". Deitrich Stauffer, a
leading statistical physicist, introduces the very recent Sznajd model
and shows how it can be applied to understanding the distribution of
votes in an election.

Flaminio Squazzoni and Riccardo Boero
Economic Performance, Inter-Firm Relations and Local Institutional
Engineering in a Computational Prototype of Industrial Districts

Volker Müller-Benedict
Xenophobia and Social Closure: A Development of a Model from Coleman

Chris Goldspink
Methodological Implications Of Complex Systems Approaches to Sociality:
Simulation as a foundation for knowledge

Dietrich Stauffer
Monte Carlo simulations of Sznajd models

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Forum

Ted Metzler
Can Agent-Based Simulation Improve Dialogue between Science and Theology?

Inga Tomic-Koludrovic, Mirko Petric and Ivica Mitrovic
Mixed Reality or One Reality: A Socio-Semiotic Approach to Hybrid
Multiagent Environments

Paul Davidsson
Agent Based Social Simulation: A Computer Science View

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Reviews

Political Complexity: Non Linear Models of Politics
Edited by Diana Richards
Reviewed by J. Theodore Anagnoson

Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics
Edited by Thomas Brenner
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe

Trust in Virtual Societies
Edited by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Yao-Hua Tan
Reviewed by Helder Coelho

Reasoning about Rational Agents
Michael Wooldridge
Reviewed by Bruce Edmonds

Evolution's Arrow: The Directions of Evolution and the Future of Humanity
John Stewart
Reviewed by David Hales

Multi-Agent-Based Simulation: Proceedings of the Second International
Workshop (MABS 2000)
Edited by Scott Moss and Paul Davidsson
Reviewed by Michael Möhring and Klaus G. Troitzsch

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

The next issue wil be published at the end of March 2002.

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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.
   Tel:+44 1483 689173  Fax:+44 1483 689551  address@hidden
Simulation resources at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/>


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Professor Nigel Gilbert, FREng, AcSS, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor
of
Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
689173


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