JASSS: Vol. 5(2) published

[Nigel Gilbert]

The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 
(http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/) published the second issue of Volume 5 
on March 31st.
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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Refereed articles

This issue features two articles on using simulation to understand the 
evolution of language.  Juan de Lara and Manuel Alfonseca describe 
multiagent simulations in which the individuals try to reach a uniform 
vocabulary to name spatial movements.  Amy Perfors reviews recent 
computational work done in the simulated evolution of language, prefaced 
by an overview of the broader issues in linguistics that computational 
models may help to clarify.

There are also two papers examining cultural conventions.  Marie-Edith 
Bissey and Guido Ortona's paper observe the effect of the invasion of 
non-cooperating subjects into a community adopting a cooperative 
convention.  Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merlone present an agent-based 
simulation framework for the analysis of the 'corporate cultures' that 
emerge in organizations.

In the Forum section, Thomas Sauerbier describes a new tool for running 
dynamic microsimulations, and Kurt A Richardson responds to Chris 
Goldspink's methodological arguments in the previous issue.


Juan de Lara and Manuel Alfonseca
The role of oblivion, memory size and spatial separation in dynamic 
language games

Marie-Edith Bissey and Guido Ortona
The Integration of Defectors in a Cooperative Setting

Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merlone
A multi-agent simulation platform for modeling perfectly rational and 
bounded-rational agents in organizations

Review essay

Amy Perfors
Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field

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Forum

Thomas Sauerbier
UMDBS - A New Tool for Dynamic Microsimulation

Kurt A Richardson
"Methodological Implications of Complex Systems Approaches to 
Sociality": Some Further Remarks

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Book Reviews

Simulation and Social Theory
Sean Cubitt
Reviewed by David Byrne

Artificial Evolution
Edited by Cyril Fonlupt, Jin-Kao Hao, Evelyne Lutton, Edmund Ronald and 
Marc Schoenauer
Reviewed by Robin Matthews

Rational Ritual: Culture, Co-ordination and Common Knowledge
Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Reviewed by Juliette Rouchier

Self-Organization and the City
Juval Portugali
Reviewed by Alasdair Turner

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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 June 2002.  Submissions 
are welcome: see <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>

_______________________________________________________________________
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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