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Preliminary Program for Swarmfest 2009:

Sunday, June 28

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast /Welcome

8:00 – 8:45 AM: Introduction: The Redfish Experience

Using ABM for close reproduction of Reality: Simulating Complexity

8:45 – 9:15 AM : Folcik, “Using Agent-Based Modeling to Study Interstitial Lung Disease.”

9:15 – 9:45 AM: Menke, “A Computational Model of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy

9:45 – 10:15 AM: Doscher, “Braided River Simulation with Swarm.”

10:15 – 10:30 AM: Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Thorne, “Validation Strategies for an Agent-based Model of Leukocyte Trafficking.”

11:00 – 11:30 AM: Said, “On Agent-based Modeling of Social Networks.”

11:30 – 12:00 Noon: Discussion: Wish-lists for Doing Modeling

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch

Facilitating Model Construction: Toolkits

1:00 – 1:30 PM: Legende, “The Scientists and the Bar in Santa Fe: A New FABLE(S).”

1:30 – 2:00 PM: Bosci, “MEME – An Integrated Tool for Advanced Computational Experiments for a Variety of Agent-based Simulation Platforms.”

2:00 – 2:30 PM: Parker, “The Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: Complexity, Cooperation and Community.”

2:30 – 3:00 PM: Parker, “A Sugar Epidemic.”

3:00 – 5:00 PM: Workshop: How can our tools help our modelers?

Monday, June 29

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast

Simulating Complex Agents

8:00 – 8:30 AM: Tierna, “Agents ruling and ruled, rules and meta-rules: does the world belong to anarchists?”

8:30 – 9:00 AM: Park, “Geospatial-Temporal Modeling of Alcohol Acute Events.”

9:00 – 9:30 AM: Drutchas, “An Evolutionary Simulation of Probabilistic Decision-Making, Financial Aid, and Market Structure in Post-Secondary Higher Education.”

Using ABM as a means of addressing Computationally Intensive Problems

9:30 – 10:00 AM: Vulli, “Artificial Ecosystems: An Artificial Life Approach to Multiobjective Optimization.”

10:00 – 10:15 AM: Coffee Break

10:15 – 10:45 AM: Sneddon, “NFsim: A Novel Agent-based Platform for Stochastic Simulation of Complex Biological Systems.”

10:45 – 11:15 AM: Christley, “Integrating the Gillespie Algorithm with Swarm.”

11:15 – 12:00 Noon: Discussion: Towards a Taxonomy of Complex Systems with an Agent-based Modeling Means of Classification

12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch

Augmenting ABM implementation

1:00 – 1:30 PM: Tapia-Valenzuela, “Scaling the Gillespie Stochastic Simulation Algorithm Using Data-Parallel Architectures.”

1:30 – 2:00 PM: Lloyd, “Agent-based Simulation on a Hybrid, Heterogeneous Computer Cluster: Networked Instruction, Multiple Data (NIMD).”

2:00 – 2:30 PM: Gulyas, “Dry Schema for parallel (RePast-based) ABM Simulations.”

2:30 – 5:00 PM: Workshop: What are the limits of what we can model with ABM and what do we need to do to expand those limits?

Tuesday, June 30

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast

Education Examples: Student Projects

8:00 – 8:30 AM: TenCate/Yang, “Wave Interaction in Pools: a NetLogo Simulation.”

8:30 – 9:00 AM: Rush/Jacobs/Lucero, “Wildfire Patterns in Southeastern New Mexico: A Decision Aid for a Volunteer Fire Department.”

User Interactive ABM Platforms

9:00 – 9:30 AM: Gulyas, “PET—A Participatory Extension for Agent-based Simulations.”

9:30 – 10:00 AM: Francisco, “Scaffolder: An Interface for Agent-based Discourse.”

10:00 – 10:15 AM: Coffee Break

10:15 – 12:00: Discussion: Where do we go from here?

End of Swarmfest