NEW issue of JASSS: Vol. 4(4)

[Nigel Gilbert]

The fourth issue of volume 4 of the Journal of Artificial Societies and 
Social Simulation (JASSS) was published on October 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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This issue has six refereed articles, two contributions to the Forum 
section, and six book reviews and a review essay.

Guido Fioretti presents a model of the structure of the information 
flows that underlie the creation of production chains between thousands 
of small textile firms located in Prato, central Italy.  Henriette 
Otter, Anne van der Veen and Huib de Vriend describe a model to help 
understand the mechanisms that are at the basis of land use changes and 
the formation of land use patterns.  Felix Flentge, Daniel Polani and 
Thomas Uthmann study the emergence and the effects of a possession norm 
in an artificial society.  D.W. Pearson and M-R. Boudarel look at how a 
social interaction model can be developed that takes into account the 
influence of perceived attitudes, using a master equation approach. Rob 
Stocker, David G. Green and David Newth examine Dunbar's hypothesis 
(that natural group size in apes and humans arises from the transition 
from grooming behaviour to language or gossip) and show that 
transmission rate and neighbourhood size accompany critical transitions 
of the order proposed by Dunbar.  Andreas Flache and Rainer Hegselmann 
introduce Cellular Automata models based on irregular grids and consider 
the effect of using such grids on two standard CA models.

Guido Fioretti
Information Structure and Behaviour of a Textile Industrial District

Henriette S. Otter, Anne van der Veen and Huib J. de Vriend
ABLOoM: Location Behaviour, Spatial Patterns, and Agent-based Modelling

Felix Flentge, Daniel Polani and Thomas Uthmann
Modelling the Emergence of Possession Norms using Memes

D.W. Pearson and M-R. Boudarel
Pair Interactions: Real and Perceived Attitudes

Rob Stocker, David G. Green and David Newth
Consensus and cohesion in simulated social networks

Andreas Flache and Rainer Hegselmann
Do Irregular Grids make a Difference? Relaxing the Spatial Regularity 
Assumption in Cellular Models of Social Dynamics

Forum
Discussion papers and work in progress

Andre Costopoulos
Evaluating the Impact of Increasing Memory on Agent Behaviour: Adaptive 
patterns in an Agent-based Simulation of Subsistence

Carl Henning Reschke
Evolutionary Perspectives on Simulations of Social Systems

Reviews

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organised Criticality
Per Bak
Review essay by Oswaldo Teran

Computational Finance 1999
Edited by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Blake LeBaron, Andrew W. Lo and Andreas 
S. Wiegend
Reviewed by Paul E. Johnson

Computational Modeling of Behavior in Organizations: The Third 
Scientific Discipline
Edited by Daniel R. Ilgen and Charles L. Hulin
Reviewed by Chris Goldspink

The Modelling of Human Behaviour
Bernd Schmidt
Reviewed by Frederic Amblard

The Global Dynamics of Celullar Automata: An Atlas of Basin of 
Attraction Fields of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
Andrew Wuensche and Mike Lesser
Reviewed by H. Van Dyke Parunak

Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Edited by John Ziman
Reviewed by Robert Aunger

International Futures: Choices in the Face of Uncertainty
Barry B. Hughes
Reviewed by Matthew J. Hoffmann


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 January 2001.

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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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