JASSS vol. 3 no. 1: just published

[Nigel Gilbert]

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


The first issue of the third volume of the Journal of Artificial 
Societies and Social Simulation was published on Monday, January 
31st.

The new issue includes two peer reviewed papers, on 'Agent-based 
modelling of collective identity: testing constructivist theory' and 
on 'Asynchronous Time Evolution in an Artificial Society Model' and, 
in the Forum section, a thought-provoking paper on can there be a 
'Liberal Order for Software Agents?'   and a detailed account of 
using the Matlab package for teaching social simulation.  There are 
also four book reviews.

The next issue of JASSS is due at the end of March.  Submissions for 
that issue are welcome.  Because JASSS is distributed over the World 
Web Wide and all editorial operations use the internet, we can 
achieved much faster turn-round from first submission to acceptance 
than most conventional paper journals.

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Below you will find the contents of the new issue.

Nigel Gilbert
Editor


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http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/3/1/contents.html

Volume 3, Issue 1

Refereed Articles

   Ian S. Lustick
       Agent-based modelling of collective identity:
          testing constructivist theory
   Barry G. Lawson and Steve Park
       Asynchronous Time Evolution in an Artificial Society Model

Forum

    Warren Thorngate
        Teaching Social Simulation with Matlab
    Dirk Nicolas Wagner
        Liberal Order for Software Agents? An economic analysis

Book Reviews

    SIMUL8
    from Visual Thinking International

       reviewed by Jeremy Garnett

    The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform:
    A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis
    by Gerry Redmond, Holly Sutherland and Moira Wilson

       reviewed by Joakim Hussénius and Peter Ericson

    Validation of Simulation Models
    edited by Cor van Dijkum, Dorien DeTombe and Etzel van Kuijk

       reviewed by Michael Möhring

    The Computational Beauty of Nature:
    Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation
    by Gary William Flake

       reviewed by Nigel Gilbert
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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 259173  Fax:+44 1483 259551  address@hidden
Simulation resources at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/simsoc/>


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