Newsletter December 31 2006
Bandung Fe Institute
December 31 2006
CONTENTS:
01. President Speech for the New Year
02. Special Issue of Journal of Social Complexity
01. President Speech for the New Year
Our dearest friends, colleagues, competitors, and readers,
To day we will end the year of 2006, and move on to the new year 2007,
a new year that hopefully will give us the more and more advancement
for research as one of human endeavor in order to pursue a better
living, a better civilization. In the year of 2006, we have witnessed
many works of the institute, be it the work of research in
computational sociology, econophysics, cognitive science, and some
further steps on the modeling of our social life as dynamical system.
We can see them as reflected in the institute's working paper series
that is available free on-line, the publications of the Journal of
Social Complexity, the publication of the BuletinBFI in Indonesian, and
some research report privately making in the cooperation with the
single commercial partner and consultancy company, the Surya Research
International.
It is a delightful moment if we look back to previous years of this
young research institute. It is also giving us some fair proud of the
achievement on some on-going works on econophysics, the implementation
of memetics into diverse field of study, the application of some
technicalities of artificial intelligence to our further methods on
cognitive science contrasted to what available for us to see in the
localities of the institute, the beloved Indonesia. Yet, it could also
relieving for the end of the old year always promise us a new and fresh
air of the incoming year, 2007, as we will leave behind our casualties
and heading with new spirit to face new time. In the year of 2006,
researchers in the institute were going and coming. Some of the
researchers are actually did not find any of their needs and probably
enjoyment on doing research in the institute. Of course, since do the
"real" research will never be easy especially in the obscure
appreciations and lack of financial abundance in doing research in pure
science in the society in which our institute laid upon. But yet, there
will always hope, let the inconvenient fellow researchers get out, and
embrace new ones. It is a very exciting moment to me to recall that
there are some newcoming scholars studying now in the institute, ready
to do their best for the sake of science.
There should never be words of failing, frustration, saturated, and any
sort of pessimistic words in the institute of science, since science
must always be treated with joy, expectation, creativity, dynamics, and
novelty for science contains the very essence of never-ending endeavors
for betterment. There is no pessimistic science. Science must always be
positive. As human and any other organisms upon the earth evolves
toward something, scientific works are also always evolving toward
something. The institute, especially Bandung Fe Institute in her very
young age of activities, should also reflect that.
Science should also never be boring. Anyone that has been bored of
science is those who hated progress; and those who hated progress have
nothing to do with life and civilization. Science, as well as life, is
too beautiful to be seen boring. The true research institute thus never
looks boring. I must guarantee that what ever it takes, the researchers
of the institute will never be exhausted to present our newest findings
and discoveries in social complexity sciences to all the people with
the same spirit. Especially in Indonesia, we believe the advancement of
social science is one key to the betterment of Indonesia for betterment
in her pathways from totalitarianism in past days to the more
delightful and democratic society nowadays.
Yes, there were hard times in the past, but as one of the member of
Board of Advisory of the institute, Professor Yohanes Surya always
said, we must always be optimistic. Let us get real with theoretical
explorations and some empirical discoveries, for that is where our
happiness lays.
In this ending time of the year 2006, the institute has published the
Special Edition of the Journal of Social Complexity. This issue of the
journal will hit the readers in the air of January of the New Year. The
papers included in this issue have been presented at the Economic
Science Association 2005 European Regional Meeting, held in
Alessandria, Italy (September 15-18th, 2005). We thank the Editor in
Chief of the issue, Mr. Rendra Suroso and the guest editor of the
issue, Professor Marco Novarese. Both of them have been hand in hand
struggling to present the best quality of papers presented in the issue
- and we should give credit for them about it.
In the mean time, I also would like to announce the plan to open again
the paper submissions for the next edition of journal as scheduled to
be ready for refereeing in June 2007 simultaneously with the
publication of Buletin BFI for Indonesian readers. Well, we have a lot
of works to do ahead, we hope your support as well as we thank yours in
the past.
Let us hope for better research discoveries in this New Year. Any
helpful hands from friends and colleagues, even competitors and our
readers are always becoming the fuel for us to move forward. Let us
progress, and let us be happy with it. Let scientific achievements
become our fireworks to celebrate and pass over the years as we learn
things from the past year.
As an epilogue, in this delightful moment, I would also like to remind
us that we have two religions are celebrating two holidays and on
behalf of the institute, I would like to convey the very Merry
Christmas for Christians and also Happy Iedul Adha for Moslems. Let us
together face the new year 2007 with new and better productivity in our
struggle for betterment of our social living in general through
scientific methods. May God be with us!
Hokky Situngkir
President of BFI
02. Special Issue of Journal of Social Complexity
The institute is now on post-preparation of the publication of the new
issue of the Journal of Social Complexity. This new issue is a special
edition since the papers included in this issue have been presented at
the Economic Science Association 2005 European Regional Meeting, held
in Alessandria, Italy (September 15-18th). Professor Marco Novarese
(Centre for Cognitive Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale,
Italy) is the guest editor of the special edition. We will inform you
as the issue hit the readers.
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