Due to the efforts of Rosaria Conte, the AgentLink network of excellence
<http://www.agentlink.org> has established a special interest group
(SIG) for agent based social simulation (ABSS)
<http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/abss/>. This SIG is being coordinated by
Rosaria and me.
ANYONE can participate in this SIG. Costs of participation can be met
out of SIG funds for participants who are from institutions that are
members of AgentLink which is itself a network of excellence under the
Esprit Porgramme of the European Commission. (The funds are by no means
unlimited but we would expect to fund the costs of a substantial
proportion of those who are eligible and attend SIG meetings.)
The first SIG meeting will be in London alongside the PAAM meeting on
April 21 & 22, 1999.
We see a main function of the ABSS SIG to be the establishment of
collaborative projects including applications for funding under the
Fifth Framework. Since it is now possible to combine applications for
European funding under the Fifth Framework with American-funded
applications, if may be that the SIG will have a role in facilitating
such transatlantic ventures. This could be one subject of discussion at
the SIG meeting.
For more information, see the ABSS home page at
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/abss/ where you will find a link to the call
for participation and instructions for joining the ABSS email discussion
list.
If you have any questions not answered on the SIG Web site, by all means
send Rosaria or me an email about it.
regards
scott
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Scott Moss telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
Director fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Aytoun Building
Manchester M1 3GH
UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~scott
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