The current issue of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
leads with a symposium arising from the extended interchange on this
list a year ago.
The contributors to the published symposium are Rosaria Conte, Bruce
Edmonds, Scott Moss and Keith Sawyer. The various authors'
contributions reflect not only the exchange of postings on this list but
also several rounds of circulating drafts among the authors.
There were many others whose contributions to the simsoc interchange
were useful. interesting and stimulating. I am certain everyone will
recognise that it would not have been possible to include them all. The
selection criteria were explained in the published symposium:
The four contributors selected for the CMOT symposium were
those from among the most active contributors whose postings
were deemed to be the most relevant to computational
modelling. Other contributors were either less involved in
the development of arguments or their concern was more
philosophical and abstractly methodological and, therefore,
less intimately related to computational modelling issues per
se.
I do hope that there will be more such interesting interchanges on the
list and that these will be found sufficiently interesting as to warrant
publication in the leading journals in our field. This is, I think, a
new departure insofar as the symposium arose from an email discussion.
However, other disciplines have had journal based symposia during
formative stages in their development, a few of which influenced the
development of those disciplines for many years thereafter. One example
is the symposium on increasing returns in the 1930 (or so) Economic
Journal.
Finally, I hope members of this list will enjoy the published symposium
and especially that those who participated in the interchange will take
some satisfaction from the influence their own postings will have had on
the synmposium contributors.
Regards,
Scott
PS: The relevant citation is:
Rosaria Conte, Bruce Edmonds, Scott Moss and Keith Sawyer (2001),
"Sociology and Social Theory in Agent Based Social Simulation: A
Symposium", Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 7(3),
pp. 183-205.
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Professor Scott Moss
Director
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Aytoun Building
Manchester M1 3GH
UNITED KINGDOM
telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~scott
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