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As the Workshop chair for this summers ISDC in Oxford, England, I will be accepting workshop proposals until the April 2 deadline. All workshops will be held on the last day of the conference, Thursday, July 29. The workshops offer a great opportunity for in-depth learning for both presenters and pa...

John Swanson asks about experience in "selling" the SD position on model validation, and the idea that while correct philosophically, that position "in a grubby commercial world is not very helpful". I have been an SD consultant in that grubby commercial world and away from acade...

Martin Schaffernicht asks about models of language evolution. An amazing piece of work on this topic, combined with an analysis of global human migration patterns over thousands of years, is by Harald Sverdrup at Lund University, Sweden. His paper at the 2002 conference in Palermo was entitled: &quo...