Peer reviewed articles

Optimal Opinion Control: The Campaign Problem
Rainer Hegselmann, Stefan König, Sascha Kurz, Christoph Niemann and Jörg Rambau

From Anti-Conformism to Extremism
Gérard Weisbuch

Activation Regimes in Opinion Dynamics: Comparing Asynchronous Updating Schemes
Meysam Alizadeh and Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

Altruism Displays a Harmonic Signature in Structured Societies
Shade T. Shutters and David Hales

Network-Based Trust Games: An Agent-Based Model
Shu-Heng Chen, Bin-Tzong Chie and Tong Zhang

The Big Impact of Small Groups on College Drinking
Ben Fitzpatrick, Jason Martinez, Elizabeth Polidan and Ekaterini Angelis

Intervention Strategies and the Diffusion of Collective Behavior
Hai-hua Hu, Jun Lin and Wen-tian Cui

An Agent-Based Dialogical Model with Fuzzy Attitudes
Piter Dykstra, Wander Jager, Corinna Elsenbroich, Rineke Verbrugge and Gerard Renardel de Lavalette

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Child Maltreatment and Child Maltreatment Prevention
Xiaolin Hu and Nicholas Keller

Multi-Agent Based Simulation of Organizational Routines on Complex Networks
Dehua Gao, Xiuquan Deng, Qiuhong Zhao, Hong Zhou and Bing Bai

Considering a Multi-Level Model as a Society of Interacting Models: Application to a Collective Motion Example
Benjamin Camus, Christine Bourjot and Vincent Chevrier

A Stochastic and Flexible Activity Based Model for Large Population. Application to Belgium
Johan Barthelemy and Philippe Toint

Special section: Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations (guest editors: Peer-Olaf Siebers and Paul Davidsson)

Engineering Agent-Based Social Simulations: An Introduction
Peer-Olaf Siebers and Paul Davidsson

A Call to Arms: Standards for Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
Andrew Collins, Mikel Petty, Daniele Vernon-Bido and Solomon Sherfey

Evidence Based and Conceptual Model Driven Approach for Agent-Based Policy Modelling
Sabrina Scherer, Maria Wimmer, Ulf Lotzmann, Scott Moss and Daniele Pinotti

Simulation Design: Trans-Paradigm Best-Practice from Software Engineering
Stuart Rossiter

Repast Simphony Statecharts
Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier, Todd Combs, Charles M. Macal and Michael North

Agile Development of an Attitude-Behaviour Driven Simulation of Alcohol Consumption Dynamics
Daniel Moyo, Abdallah K. Ally, Alan Brennan, Paul Norman, Robin C. Purshouse and Mark Strong

Book Reviews

Complexity and the Economy
Arthur, W. Brian
Reviewed by Émile J.L. Chappin

Understanding Large Temporal Networks and Spatial Networks: Exploration, Pattern Searching, Visualization and Network Evolution (Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science)
Doreian, Patrick, Batagelj, Vladimir, Ferligoj, Anuska and Kejzar, Natasa
Reviewed by Adam G. Dunn

Complexity and the Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Youngman, Paul A.
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe-Brown

Handbook of Real-World Applications in Modeling and Simulation (Wiley Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science)
Sokolowski, John A. and Banks, Catherine M. (eds.)
Reviewed by Walid Nasrallah

Social Interaction, Globalization and Computer-Aided Analysis: A Practical Guide to Developing Social Simulation (Human-Computer Interaction Series)
Osherenko, Alexander
Reviewed by Christopher Watts

New Pathways in Microsimulation
Dekkers, Gijs, Keegan, Marcia and ODonoghue, Cathal
Reviewed by Andreas Koch

Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Computational Social Sciences)
West, Bruce J., Turalska, Malgorzata and Grigolini, Paolo
Reviewed by Ugo Merlone

Books received for review