JASSS vol. 2 issue 2 published

[Nigel Gilbert]

Volume 2, Issue 2 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 issue includes:

Refereed Articles

    José Castro Caldas and Helder Coelho
    The Origin of Institutions: socio-economic processes, choice, norms and
                    conventions

     Marco Janssen and Wander Jager
     An integrated approach to simulating behavioural processes: A case
                    study of the lock-in of consumption patterns

     Gérard Ballot and Erol Taymaz
     Technological change, learning and macro-economic coordination: An
                    evolutionary model


Forum

     Elke Mentges
     Concepts for an agent-based framework for interdisciplinary social
                    science simulation


Book Reviews

     Complexity and Postmodernism
                    by Paul Cilliers

         reviewed by David Byrne

     The Meme Machine
                    by Susan Blackmore

        reviewed by Liane Gabora

     Neural Networks for Economic and Financial Modelling
                    by Andrea Beltratti, Sergio Margarita and Pietro Terna

        reviewed by Robert Marks

     Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads through Society
                    by Aaron Lynch

        reviewed by Paul Marsden

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

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Apologies if you get multiple copies of this announcement.
______________________________________________________________________
Professor Nigel Gilbert, Director of CRESS, the Centre for Research on
Simulation in the Social sciences, http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/cress
and Editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation,
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, England


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