New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 20(3)

• Modeling & Simulation

If you haven't heard of this online journal before, I urge you to take a look at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html.  The journal is filled with examples of how agent-based modeling is used by professionals and students to understand complex adaptive systems.  Some examples of complex adaptive systems written about in this issue are:

• The Explanation of Social Conventions by Melioration Learning
  by Johannes Zschache
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/1.html
   
• Growing Unpopular Norms
  by Christoph Merdes
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/5.html
   
• Ali Baba and the Thief, Convention Emergence in Games
  by Xin Sun, Xishun Zhao and Livio Robaldo
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/6.html
   
• Effects of the Interaction Between Ideological Affinity and Psychological Reaction of Agents on the Opinion Dynamics in a Relative Agreement Model
  by Norma L. Abrica-Jacinto, Evguenii Kurmyshev and Héctor A. Juárez
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/3.html
   
• The Role of Homophily in the Emergence of Opinion Controversies
  by Floriana Gargiulo and Yerali Gandica
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/8.html
   
• A Taxonomy for Agent-Based Models in Human Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  by Elizabeth Hunter, Brian Mac Namee and John D. Kelleher
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/2.html
   
• A Simulation of Entrepreneurial Spawning
  by Mark J. O. Bagley
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/9.html
   
• Responsiveness of Mining Community Acceptance Model to Key Parameter Changes
  by Mark Kofi Boateng and Kwame Awuah-Offei
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/4.html
   
• Thomas C. Schelling and James M. Sakoda: The Intellectual, Technical, and Social History of a Model
  by Rainer Hegselmann
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/15.html
   
• Enhancing the Realism of Simulation (EROS): On Implementing and Developing Psychological Theory in Social Simulation
  by Wander Jager
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/14.html
   
• Friendships and Social Networks in an Individual-Based Model of Primate Social Behaviour
  by Ivan Puga-Gonzalez and Cedric Sueur
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/10.html
   
• Experiments with a Model of Domestic Energy Demand
  by Nicholas M. Gotts and J. Gary Polhill
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/11.html
   
• Modelling Human Behaviours in Disasters from Interviews: Application to Melbourne Bushfires
  by Carole Adam and Benoit Gaudou
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/12.html
   
• Simulation for Interpretation: A Methodology for Growing Virtual Cultures
  by Ulf Lotzmann and Martin Neumann
  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/20/3/13.html