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ItemInternational Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space(The University of Melbourne, 2007)Social agents are embedded in both social structures and in geographical space. The combination of social and geographic space has often been neglected. With few exceptions, social network theory ignores geographic space, and artificial intelligence studies often assume local societies without sophisticated conceptualisations of social networks. Yet the multiple embeddedness of actors in both physical and social space has important implications for understanding social behaviour. In many related research areas, there is a growing recognition that associations between social structure and geographical nearness may affect social systems and social behaviours. Research on the associations between social and geographic space occurs in disconnected scientific communities, including human geography, social network theory, and geographic agent-based simulation. The International Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space aims to bring the social and the spatial disciplines together, to discover joint foundations in social and geographical theory, and to integrate approaches for modelling spatial context and social behaviour. Seven papers were selected for presentation at the workshop, out of twelve papers submitted. The chairs would like to acknowledge the support from the ARC Research Network on Spatially Enabled Social Sciences. Special thanks go to Lin-Jie Guan for typesetting these proceedings.