Journal of Artifical Societies and Social Simulation

[Nigel Gilbert]

The first issue of the <Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation>, a new electronic journal, was published on 3rd January at

   http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/JASSS.html .

The journal aims to contribute to the exploration and understanding of
social processes by means of computer simulation.

The first issue includes:
     Editorial
     Refereed Articles
          Dwight W. Read
          Kinship based demographic simulation of societal processes

          Giorgio Brajnik and Marji Lines
          Qualitative modeling and simulation of socio-economic phenomena

          Jim Doran
          Simulating Collective Misbelief

      Forum
          Michael W. Macy
          Social Order in Artificial Worlds

               Response
                    Cristiano Castelfranchi
                    Through the Minds of the Agents
               Reply
                     Michael W. Macy
       Book Review
           The Complexity of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
               a long review by Ken Binmore

The journal is only be available electronically through the World Wide Web (at
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/ ). Because JASSS is published
electronically, it is able to provide benefits to authors and readers not
usually found in conventional paper journals including:
* rapid publication, with no delays for typesetting, printing and mailing
* ability to publish full-colour illustrations at no extra cost
* opportunities to include multi-media additions to papers, including
animations, video clips, sound, data and program sources, etc.
* world-wide exposure: the journal is accessible globally through the Internet

The journal welcomes papers which apply computational simulation to
problems in the social sciences, address current issues concerning
theories, tools and techniques for social simulation, and report studies of
artificial societies which enhance our understanding of social processes.

Submissions to the journal are stringently peer reviewed by an
international editorial board reflecting the multi-disciplinary subject
areas covered by the journal and the world-wide interest in this rapidly
growing field.

Issues of JASSS can be accessed through the Uniform Resource Locator (URL):

http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/JASSS.html

using any graphical Web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer etc.).  New
readers are requested to register at this URL in order to receive
notification of issues of the journal as they appear.  The journal is
published quarterly, with four issues per volume.

Original research papers and critical reviews on all aspects of social
simulation and agent societies are welcome.  Briefer accounts of work in
progress and commentaries on papers in previous issues of JASSS are invited
for the Forum section.  Further details can be found at
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/submit.html.

Editor
Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK

Associate Editors
Klaus Troitzsch, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Edmund Chattoe,
University of Surrey, UK

Editorial Board
Robert Axtell, Brookings Institution; Ken Binmore, University College,
London; Kathleen Carley, Pittsburgh; Cristiano Castelfranchi, Roma; John L.
Casti, Santa Fe; Rosaria Conte, Rome; Jim Doran, Essex; Alexis Drogoul,
Paris VI; Clark Elliott,  Chicago; Natalie Glance, Grenoble; Rainer
Hegselmann, Bayreuth; Wim Liebrand, University of Groningen; Michael Macy,
Cornell; Michael Masuch, Amsterdam; Scott Moss, Manchester Metropolitan;
Dwight Read, UCLA; Yoav Shoham, Stanford; Jaime Sichman, Sao Paulo; Ramzi
Suleiman, Haifa; Pietro Terna, Torino; Ulrich Witt, Jena; Ezra Zubrow,
Buffalo.




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