JASSS vol. 2 issue 1 published

[Nigel Gilbert]

The January issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation has been published at <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>

Access to the journal is free.  JASSS is a peer-reviewed electronic journal
for the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of
computer simulation.

The January issue includes:

* Refereed Articles

   Steven Patrick, Patricia M. Dorman and Robert L. Marsh
       Simulating Correctional Disturbances: The Application of
Organization Control Theory to Correctional Organizations via Computer
Simulation

   Nicole J. Saam and Andreas Harrer
       Simulating Norms, Social Inequality, and Functional Change in
Artificial Societies


* Forum

  Nigel Gilbert
       Multi-level simulation in Lisp-Stat

  Rosaria Conte and Scott Moss
       Special Interest Group on Agent-Based Social Simulation


* Extended review

   Bruce Edmonds
        The Uses of Genetic Programming in Social Simulation

* Book Reviews

   Social Science Microsimulation  Edited by Klaus G. Troitzsch, et al.
         reviewed by Brendan Halpin

   Evolutionary Game Theory by Joergen Weibull
         reviewed by Daniel Probst

   System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life by Robert Jervis
         reviewed by Scott E. Page

Submissions for the next issue, which will be published in March 1999,
are welcome.

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register your email address at
<http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/admin/register.html>


Apologies if you get multiple copies of this announcement.
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Prof G. Nigel Gilbert, Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford
GU2 5XH,
United Kingdom.  Tel: +44 (0)1483 259173 Fax: +44 (0)1483 259551


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