Nigel Gilbert (1998)

'Editorial'

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 1, no. 3, <https://www.jasss.org/1/3/editorial.html>

The first issue of JASSS was published in January. Then I had no idea whether we would have enough readers and contributors to make the Journal viable. However, my worries have proved unfounded so far: this third issue includes more articles and reviews than earlier ones, and the number of readers continues to grow steadily.

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To see how many people have accessed JASSS, click on the Statistics item at the bottom of the front page or here . The data are derived from the web server log records. The log contains the internet addresses of every computer which accesses the Journal, so we can tell how many computers read it, but not exactly how many humans do!

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Two of the articles in this issue were originally presented at the third SimSoc workshop, hosted by Bibb Latané and held in Boca Raton, Florida, USA in September 1995. They are

• Rainer Hegselmann and Andreas Flache
  Understanding Complex Social Dynamics: A Plea For Cellular Automata Based Modelling and

• Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rosaria Conte and Mario Paolucci
  Normative reputation and the costs of compliance

My thanks to Rosaria Conte and Edmund Chattoe for their editorial assistance in the earlier stages of preparing these articles for publication.

We look forward to your contributions for future issues and your comments. If there is a book you would like to review, let us know.

Nigel Gilbert
Editor, JASSS

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