JASSS new Double issue: just published

[Nigel Gilbert]

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
      <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/JASSS.html>


I am pleased to announce the publication of the first double issue of 
the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation on October 
31st.  This is volume 2, issues 3 and 4.

The new issue features a set of four peer-reviewed papers on Computer 
Simulation in Anthropology edited by guest editor Dwight W. Read and 
three regular peer-reviewed papers, as well as a description of the 
new MAML modelling language in the Forum section and four book 
reviews.

JASSS is now completing its second year of publication.  Over 1,500 
readers around the world will be receiving this message, having 
registered on the JASSS site to obtain notification of new issues. 
The server that hosts JASSS recorded 17,695 'hits' on the JASSS pages 
in April, and noted that on average 3,000 pages are downloaded every 
week.  In short, JASSS is much more widely read than most academic 
journals published on paper.

All JASSS refereed articles are carefully reviewed by at least three 
scholars working in the field, most but not all selected from the 
journal's distinguished Editorial Board.

JASSS is free and depends on the collective, unpaid efforts of its 
contributors, referees, and editors.  As Editor, I am always pleased 
to receive submissions and aim to reply with an editorial decision 
within eight weeks.  Because JASSS is not constrained by a set number 
of pages per volume, accepted articles can always be included in the 
next issue, ensuring speedy publication.  The electronic medium also 
allows us to publish color illustrations, links to program code and 
even animations (e.g. see the paper by Edmonds in this issue).

Dwight Read's is the first of our themed issues created by a guest 
editor.  I would be glad to receive suggestions for further themes, 
and volunteers to act as guest editors.

Below you will find the contents of this double issue.

Nigel Gilbert
Editor


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Volume 2, Issues 3 and 4
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/contents.html

  Issue 3
  Computer Simulation in Anthropology

      Guest editor: Dwight W. Read

      Refereed Articles

          Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree
          The spread of the 'Lapita people': a demographic simulation
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/4.html

          Douglas R. White
          Controlled Simulation of Marriage Systems
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/5.html

          Cathy Small
          Finding an Invisible History: A Computer Simulation Experiment
           (in Virtual Polynesia)
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/5.html

          Jürgen Klüver and Jörn Schmidt
          Topology, Metric and Dynamics of Social Systems
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/7.html

  Issue 4

       Refereed articles

          John Kemp
          Spontaneous Change, Unpredictability and Consumption Externalities
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/2.html

          Bruce Edmonds
          Gossip, Sexual Recombination and the El Farol bar:
            modelling the emergence of heterogeneity
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/2.html

          Peter Tucker and Duncan Smith
          Simulating Household Waste Management Behaviour
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/3.html

       Forum

          László Gulyás, Tamás Kozsik and John. B. Corliss
          The Multi-Agent Modelling Language and the Model Design Interface
          http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/2/3/8.html

          Wolfgang Krischke
          Surviving electronically: Socionics simulates social processes
           (translated and reprinted from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

       Book Reviews

           Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology: Myths, Models, and Theories
           edited by Raymond A. Eve, Sara Horsfall and Mary E. Lee
             reviewed by Alan Dean

           Barriers and Bounds to Rationality:
            Essays on Economic Complexity and Dynamics in Interactive Systems
           by Peter S. Albin, Edited by Duncan K. Foley
             reviewed by Roger A. McCain

           Multi-Agent Rationality:
            Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on
            Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, MAAMAW'97
           edited by Magnus Boman and Walter Van de Velde
             reviewed by Armin Roehrl

           Agent Technology: Foundations, Applications and Markets
           edited by Nicholas R. Jennings and Michael J. Wooldridge
             reviewed by Jaime Simão Sichman

           Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads through Society
             A response by Aaron Lynch to a review by Paul Marsden
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Prof Nigel Gilbert, PhD, FREng, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,
    Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Tel: +44 1483 259173 Fax: +44 1483 259551


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