劉正山剪報分享: 2007

August 16, 2007

Fedora Linux (V7) LiveDVD

LiveCD的意思是，你將這個影像檔iso燒成一塊DVD之後，就可以將整個作業系統帶著走。目前連中小學生都在學著用，可以預見下個世代將可以不再受到Windows的約束。而你，還在堅持（大補帖的）XP或VISTA嗎？

http://fedora.tw/ossacc/index.html

July 27, 2007

研究生甘苦談的漫畫

看到同學給我看的台灣版碩士生生活甘苦談漫畫，http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=gradlive&book=2
我不禁想起我在博士時最喜歡的博班生生活甘苦談的漫畫：
美國版：http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

比較比較可以看到更多趣味。

June 22, 2007

A new book of applying ABM to Political Science research

這本新書Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities

The Social Construction of Realism and Liberalism (2006) by David L. Rousseau 是近年極少數能夠做到利用多元研究方法來研究政治學課題的創新之作。其中它使用民調資料與代理人基模擬來探討「認同形成」的做法可算是樹立了新的研究典範。

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5415

May 28, 2007

Computational social science PhD fellowship opportunity for fall 2008, George Mason University

The PhD program in computational social science at George Mason, for a student to begin studies in fall 2008.  



-Network structures in International Relations - network-based  

imperialism, structural properties of international agreements and alliances, economic interdependence networks, agent-based models of evolving relations;

- Evolution of social networks - dynamic network models, cascades and avalanche processes in networks;



More information about the program and center is available at:

http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/



For specific questions related to the graduate program, contact Dawn Parker, acting director for the CSS PhD program, at cssgrad@gmu.edu.



Full application instructions are available at:

http://socialcomplexity.gmu.edu/phd.php

Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS)

Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS), the agent-based modeling toolset developed at AITIA International.



MASS contains a dedicated programming language for agent-based simulations (FABLES), which is compiled to RePast 3.1. (So, you can continue editing it and add advanced features, or you can directly develop your model in Repast and use the other components of MASS). FABLES has an integrated development environment (called FABLES IME) built on top of the Eclipse

platform. The MASS suite contains further modules as well, like a

graphing/visualization package with wizards, a tool for running and processing batch experiments (the Model Exploration Module or MEME), and a web interface to web-enable your simulation (also useful for doing lab experiments with human subjects -- ie. mixing them with your artificial agents). Unfortunately, this last module (the Participatory Extension or PET) is not yet available in the public release.



The public release of MASS is free, but not open source. It does not contain all the latest features, but we believe it is generally usable.



The suite is available at

http://www.aitia.ai/services_and_products/simulation_systems