As a young graduate student who grew up reading about agent-based
modeling, starting with Nigel and Klaus's Simulation for the Social
Scientist among others, I was very happy when I first stumbled upon
JASSS. Here, I thought, are people who get what is interesting about
social simulation, and I had finally found a community that made
sense to me, and the best part is it was freely available to anyone
who went looking. For a long time, I assumed that JASSS must have
quite the staff to do all the work that had to be done on the journal,
it was only in recent years that I learned that Nigel did everything.
We are eternally indebted to all of the fantastic work Nigel has done
on JASSS, if I can only inspire one-hundredth of the students that he
has inspired then I will consider my life fulfilled.
Take care,
Bill
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Jean-Daniel Kant
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I could not agree more with Flaminio : there is ony one Nigel and we can
> only trying to follow the tremendous tracks he built for us.
> Thank you, Nigel, for all you gave to our community . I look forward to
> have the chance to seeing you again, in ESSA for instance, exchanging ideas
> and having good times !
>
> Best,
> Jean-Daniel
>
> Le 05/11/2014 12:11, Flaminio Squazzoni a écrit :
>
> Dear All,
> having the honour to succeed him as JASSS editor, I must say a couple of
> words.
>
> Being the past book review editor of JASSS, I always tried to estimate the
> amount of effort Nigel was putting to manage this journal. However, after
> starting to work a couple of weeks ago in the editor’s position, now I have
> a more precise idea. Believe me, guys, you can’t even imagine. I am shocked
> when considering that he did this for many years, while in the meantime
> establishing a research centre (CRESS), supervising a high number of PhD.
> students, winning an impressive number of big EU projects, doing research,
> leading ESSA for some years etc.
>
> Now, we tend to measure scientists’ prestige through H-index and other
> bibliometric indicators. Nigel is a brilliant example of the fact that there
> is something else, though his impact is also impressive looking at these
> indicators, to be clear. No one else has served the cause of social
> simulation and our community like him. I guess this is the meaning of this
> exchange of emails.
>
> This is to say that there is no another Nigel and there won’t be in JASSS.
> We can only learn from his example and try modestly to getting as close as
> possible to his standards. This is what I will try to do, together with the
> other members of the board who share with me this new adventure.
>
> Given that this is not an obituary (I can imagine Nigel reading these
> emails.. luckily, he is not Italian and a bit superstitious! ), I take the
> chance to say that Nigel will continue to serve the cause of JASSS in his
> past editor's role and we will always ask his opinion on important matters
> for the journal development.
> Best
> Flaminio
>
> 2014-11-05 11:05 GMT+01:00 Klaus G. Troitzsch <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> Although all of us in the social simulation community owe Nigel much more
>> than JASSS, we should not forget that he devoted much of his time and effort
>> for a huge of amount of web programming and manually editing submissions
>> which more often than not did not comply with the standards of our journal.
>> There are not so many in academia who are willing to do typesetters' and
>> copy editors' work. Hence it is his merit to have kept JASSS going with his
>> own hands and never missing the date of publication of the next issue. And
>> what is more than surprising is that this kind of work never prevented him
>> from contributing to social science simulation research (which is once more
>> clear from the table of contents of the current issue). We will miss his
>> devotion for the day-to-day management of JASSS but we are full of hope that
>> he will continue his roles as project leader, thesis supervisor, summer
>> academy teacher, keynote speaker, and reviewer for JASSS.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dr. Klaus G. Troitzsch, Universitätsprofessor (a.D. / retired)
>> Institut für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik
>> Universität Koblenz-Landau
>> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>> www: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~kgt,
>
>
>
>
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