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*Call for ESSA Distinguished Dissertation Award nominations* Nominations are invited for the 2016 ESSA Distinguished Dissertation The award is sponsored by ESSA (European Social Simulation Association) ( http://www.essa.eu.org) and will be presented at SSC 2016 (http://ssc2016. cnr.it <http://www.essa.eu.org/>). Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between January 1, 2014 and March 31, 2016 in the area of Social Simulation. This award includes a certificate and a 500EUR payment. The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact include publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field. Research output that resulted primarily from the student's initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might decide to consult external assessors and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. The dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following documents: 1. A PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a journal or a prestigious conference. 2. The evaluation reports of the referees/examiners of the dissertation. 3. A list of citations to published papers based primarily on this dissertation with links to corresponding PDF files. 4. A recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the ESSA Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should argue the merit of the dissertation and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. This document, not to exceed 500 words, should also certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was defended in calendar year 2014-2015-2016 (till 31 March 2016). 5. The names, email addresses, and affiliations of at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee. It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that the letters are submitted by the deadline. A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length and should be on official letterhead, signed and emailed as scanned PDF file. The candidate has also to be a member of the European Social Simulation Association for at least two years. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee's dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attend the SSC 2016 conference, where he/she will receive the award, and will give a presentation in a special session of the conference on the work contained in the dissertation. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. *The application must be send via email to [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> by 8 May 2016* For any info, please contact [log in to unmask] On behalf of the ESSA MC Flaminio Squazzoni (President of ESSA) -- __________________ Flaminio Squazzoni Associate Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Brescia Director of the ESLS PhD Programme http://www.nasp.eu/training/phdprogrammes/esls.html <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/> JASSS Editor http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ President of ESSA-European Social Simulation Association Head of GECS http://www.eco.unibs.it/gecs Chair of PEERE www.peere.org Department of Economics and Management University of Brescia Via San Faustino 74/B 25122 Brescia Italy e-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +39 030 2988892 Fax: +39 030 2988893 Home page: www.eco.unibs.it/gecs/squazzoni.html -- Informativa sulla Privacy: http://www.unibs.it/node/8155