Peer reviewed articles

Secession of the Center: A Virtual Probe of the Prospects for Punjabi Secessionism in Pakistan and the Secession of Punjabistan
Ian Lustick

Power of Criminal Attractors: Modeling the Pull of Activity Nodes
Richard Frank, Vahid Dabbaghian, Andrew Reid, Suraj Singh, Jonathan Cinnamon and Patricia Brantingham

Soft Power, World System Dynamics, and Democratization: A Bass Model of Democracy Diffusion 1800-2000
Mikael Sandberg

Zaller-Deffuant Model of Mass Opinion
Krzysztof Malarz, Piotr Gronek and Krzysztof Kułakowski

Fairness Emergence in Reputation Systems
Adam Wierzbicki and Radoslaw Nielek

Introducing the SAPS System and a Corresponding Allocation Mechanism for Synchronous Online Reciprocal Peer Support Activities
Gijs de Bakker, Jan van Bruggen, Wim Jochems and Peter B. Sloep

Digested Information as an Information Theoretic Motivation for Social Interaction
Christoph Salge and Daniel Polani

Book Reviews

Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers
Casti, John L.
Reviewed by Guillaume Deffuant

Complexity and Public Policy: A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy & Society
Geyer, Robert and Rihani, Samir
Reviewed by Thomas Fent

Teamwork in MultiAgent Systems: A Formal Approach (Wiley Series in Agent Technology)
Dunin-Keplicz, Barbara Maria and Verbrugge, Rineke
Reviewed by Jong W. Kim

Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Vol VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems: 6
Minai, Ali A., Braha, Dan and Bar-Yam, Yaneer (eds.)
Reviewed by John Bragin

Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities: Bayesian Belief Network Approaches (Premier Reference Source)
Daniel, Ben Kei
Reviewed by Edmund Chattoe-Brown

Books received for review