[agents] New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 15(1)

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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation published issue 1 of Volume 15 on 31 January 2012. 
 
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. 
 
Peer-reviewed Articles 
The Schelling Model of Ethnic Residential Dynamics:  Beyond the Integrated - Segregated Dichotomy of Patterns 
   by  Erez Hatna and Itzhak Benenson 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/6.html 
 
Creating Realistic Synthetic Populations at Varying Spatial Scales: A Comparative Critique of Population Synthesis Techniques 
   by  Kirk Harland, Alison Heppenstall, Dianna Smith and Mark Birkin 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/1.html 
 
JAMSIM: a Microsimulation Modelling Policy Tool 
   by  Oliver Mannion, Roy Lay-Yee, Wendy Wrapson, Peter Davis and Janet Pearson 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/8.html 
 
Participatory Agent-Based Simulation for Renewable Resource Management: The Role of the Cormas Simulation Platform to Nurture a Community of Practice 
   by  Christophe Le Page, Nicolas Becu, Pierre Bommel and François Bousquet 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/10.html 
 
Nonlinear Dynamics of Crime and Violence in Urban Settings 
   by  Maria Fonoberova, Vladimir A. Fonoberov, Igor Mezic, Jadranka Mezic and P. Jeffrey Brantingham 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/2.html 
 
Computational Modelling of Trust and Social Relationships 
   by  Alistair Sutcliffe and Di Wang 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/3.html 
 
Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons: The Integration of Socio-Psychological Dispositions 
   by  Julia Schindler 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/4.html 
 
Are R&D Subsidies Provided Optimally?  Evidence from a Simulated Agency-Firm Stochastic Dynamic Game 
   by  Giovanni Cerulli 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/7.html 
 
Outstanding in the Field: Evaluating Auction Markets for Farmland Using Multi-Agent Simulation 
   by  Adam Arsenault, James Nolan, Richard Schoney and Donald Gilchrist 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/11.html 
 
A Hybrid Model for Disease Spread and an Application to the SARS Pandemic 
   by  Teruhiko Yoneyama, Sanmay Das and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/5.html 
 
Forum  (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch) 
 
UML for ABM 
   by  Hugues Bersini 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/9.html 
 
Book Reviews (Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni) 
Frank Dignum reviews: 
       Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior by Gigerenzer, Gerd, Hertwig, Ralph and Pachur, Thorsten (eds.) 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/3.html 
 
Corinna Elsenbroich reviews: 
       Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts (History of Science and Medicine Library: Medieval and Early Modern Science 15) by Ierodiakonou, Katerina and Roux, Sophie (eds.) 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/4.html 
 
Manfred Paier reviews: 
       Handbook on the Economic Complexity of Technological Change by Antonelli, Cristiano (ed.) 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/6.html 
 
Ted Metzler reviews: 
       The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Corning, Peter 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/1.html 
 
Emile Chappin reviews: 
       Phase Transitions (Primers in Complex Systems) by Sole, Ricard V. 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/5.html 
 
Adam Wierzbicki reviews: 
       Behavior Dynamics in Media-Sharing Social Networks by Zhao, H. Vicky, Lin, W. Sabrina and Liu, K. J. Ray 
       http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/15/1/reviews/2.html 
 
 
 
The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page. The next issue will be published at the end of March 2012. 
 
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JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION 
 
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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