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JASSS: Vol. 4, issue 1 published
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JASSS: Vol. 4, issue 1 published |
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Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:37:18 +0000 |
The latest issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation (JASSS) was published on January 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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The new issue has been guest edited by Bruce Edmonds and Kerstin
Dautenhahn and includes four articles on "Starting from Society: the
Application of Social Analogies to Computational Systems".
Refereed articles
In their editorial <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/0.html> the
editors note that, since societies are extremely complex systems,
they are an ideal source for designing processes and systems that
work in the face of huge complexity. Biological systems are a similar
source, whose influence has already started to be felt in computer
science and artificial intelligence, informing ideas about learning,
perception and sensori-motor control in robotic models. Now it is the
turn for social systems to serve as an example for building complex
artificial systems.
In the articles in this special issue,
* Kerstin Dautenhahn and Steven Coles apply the idea of narrative
intelligence to autonomous robotic agents.
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/1.html>
* Alexander Staller and Paolo Petta examine the bi-directional
interrelationship between social norms and emotions.
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/2.html>
* Rosaria Conte and Mario Paolucci analyse social learning and
imitation in terms of mental processes, drawing heavily on real
examples to motivate their analysis of social facilitation and
imitation. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/3.html>
* Dietrich Fliedner discusses the topics of complexity and society
from the point of view of a social geographer. He takes examples from
his field (especially the settlement patterns of the abandoned Indian
Pueblo Pecos and the area in New Mexico settled by the Spaniards) to
draw conclusions about how such societies might be profitably
modelled. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/4.html>
Forum
The Forum section is about AScape, a multi-agent simulation toolkit.
Miles Parker, who developed Ascape, describes it and its capabilities
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/5.html>, and Klaus Auer and Tim
Norris describe their experience of using Ascape to model a
simulation of the emergence of social networks in Peru
<http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/1/6.html>.
Reviews
There are book reviews of:
Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science
by John L. Casti
Introduction to Artificial Life
by Christoph Adami
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
by Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo and Guy Theraulaz
Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents
Edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
Computer Modeling of Social Processes
Edited by Wim Liebrand, Andrzej Nowak and Rainer Hegselmann
They can be accessed through the JASSS home page:
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html
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Professor Nigel Gilbert, Director of CRESS, the Centre for Research on
Simulation in the Social sciences, http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/research/cress
Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, England
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