[agents] New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 11(2)

[jasss at surrey.ac.uk]

The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 11 on 31-Mar-2008.

JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation.   It is freely available, with no subscription.
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This issue includes articles on agent-based modelling approaches to religion and to conflict, and a set of papers addressing the comparison of social simulations through 'Model-to-Model' or M2M analysis.

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Peer-reviewed Articles
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Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation?
   by  James Dow
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/2.html>

REsCape: an Agent-Based Framework for Modeling Resources, Ethnicity, and Conflict
   by  Ravi Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik and Jonas Nart
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/7.html>

Progress in Model-To-Model Analysis
   by  Juliette Rouchier, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, J. Gary Polhill and Keiki Takadama
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/8.html>

Reinforcement Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas
   by  Segismundo S. Izquierdo, Luis R. Izquierdo and Nicholas M. Gotts
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/1.html>

Opinion Dynamics: the Effect of the Number of Peers Met at Once
   by  Diemo Urbig, Jan Lorenz and Heiko Herzberg
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/4.html>

Using the ODD Protocol for Describing Three Agent-Based Social Simulation Models of Land-Use Change
   by  J. Gary Polhill, Dawn Parker, Daniel Brown and Volker Grimm
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/3.html>

Horizontal and Vertical Multiple Implementations in a Model of Industrial Districts
   by  Ugo Merlone, Michele Sonnessa and Pietro Terna
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/5.html>

Differential Equation Models Derived from an Individual-Based Model Can Help to Understand Emergent Effects
   by  Sylvie Huet and Guillaume Deffuant
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/10.html>

Micro- and Macro-Level Validation in Agent-Based Simulation:   Reproduction of Human-Like Behaviors and Thinking   in a Sequential Bargaining Game
   by  Keiki Takadama, Tetsuro Kawai and Yuhsuke Koyama
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/9.html>

A Model-To-Model Analysis of Bertrand Competition
   by  Xavier Vilà
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/11.html>

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Forum  (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch)
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Towards a Community Framework for Agent-Based Modelling
   by  Marco A. Janssen, Lilian Na'ia Alessa, Michael Barton, Sean Bergin and Allen Lee
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/6.html>

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Book Reviews    (Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni)
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Scott E. Page reviews:
       Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries (Premier Reference) by Edmonds, Bruce, Hernandez, Cesareo and Troitzsch, Klaus G.
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/page.html>

Gianluca Manzo reviews:
       Agent-Based Models by Gilbert, Nigel
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/manzo.html>

Magda Fontana reviews:
       Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation in the Social and Human Sciences by Phan, Denis, and Amblard, Frédéric (Eds.)
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/fontana.html>

Alessandro Raimondi reviews:
       Simulation Modeling and Analysis with ARENA by Altiok, T. and Melamed, Benjamin
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/raimondi.html>

Alessandro Raimondi reviews:
       Simulation by Ross, Sheldon M.
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/raimondi.html>

Alessandro Raimondi reviews:
       Simulation of Dynamic Systems with Matlab and Simulink by Harold, Klee
       <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/reviews/raimondi.html>

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

The next issue will be published at the end of June 2008.

Submissions are welcome: see <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html>
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JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>
Editor: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK
Forum Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany
Review Editor: Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
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