Program

Swarmfest 2008 Program

Monday, May 12, 2008

8:00-8:20 AM

• Continental Breakfast

8:20-8:30 AM

• Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Gary An, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

8:30-8:50 AM

• “Modeling Pathogen Transmission in Long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) on Bali using Agent-based GIS Modeling: Performance Considerations and Enhancements”
• Ryan Kennedy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

8:50-9:10 AM

• “An Individual-Based Predator-Prey Ecosystem for Image Segmentation: Effect of Explorers”
• Srinivasa Shivakar Vulli, Airborne Reconnaissance and Image Analysis (ARIA) Laboratory, Missouri University of Science and Technology

9:10-9:30 AM

• “Tentative delineation of an agent-based project for vertical integration of multi-scale knowledge”
• Jean Le Fur, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Campus international Baillarguet

9:30-9:50 AM

• Coffee Break

9:50-10:10 AM

• “Consuming Spatial Data in NetLogo using the GIS Extension”
• Eric Russell, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University

10:10-10:30 AM

• “Designing classrooms with ABM”
• Matthew Francisco, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:30-10:50 AM

• “Can the evolution of species-typical behavior be modeled as if it were brainless?”
• Robert Bowers, Indiana University

10:50-11:10 AM

• Coffee Break

11:10-11:30 AM

• “Named Entity Recognition in Acute Inflammatory Response Studies”
• Emilia Apostolova, School of Computer Science, DePaul University

11:30-11:50 AM

• “INDISIM, an Individual-based Model to simulate microbial cultures”
• Clara Prats, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escola Superior d’Agricultura de Barcelona

11:50-12:10 PM

• “Modeling the Effects of Trauma on Epidermal Wound Healing”
• Nathan Menke, Department of Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University

12:10-12:30 PM

• “Exploring Mechanisms that Control Immune Memory Using the Basic Immune Simulator”
• Virginia Folcik-Nivar, Department of Medicine, Ohio State University

12:30-1:30 PM

• Lunch (Provided on Site)

1:30-1:50 PM

• “Data-Parallel Techniques for Agent-Based Hepatic Drug Disposition Models”
• Ryan Richards, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Tech University

1:50-2:10 PM

• "Chemoscape: Signal Transduction in Bacterial Chemotaxis"
• Miles Parker, Metascape, LLC/Brookings Institution, in conjunction with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2:10-2:30 PM

• “A SIMPLE model for the evolution of movement and cooperation: Social dilemmas emerge from interactions with a shared environment”
• Athena Aktipis, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

2:30-3:00 PM

• Coffee Break

3:00-3:45 PM Featured Talk

• “The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer Progression”
• Kathleen Sprouffske, The Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania

3:45-4:30 PM Featured Talk

• “Cyberscape and Beyond: Systems Biology and Agent based modeling”
• Gordon Broderick, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alberta

4:30-5:00 PM

• Roundtable Discussion

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

8:00-8:20 AM

• Continental Breakfast

8:20-8:40 AM

• “Agents in Simulation Models, using a Swarm-like Agent Protocol in Python (SLAPP)”
• Pietro Terna, Dipartimento Scienze economiche e finanziarie, Università di Torino

8:40-9:00 AM

• “Tinkering with Turtles: An Overview of NetLogo’s Extensions API”
• Forrest Stonedahl, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University

9:00-9:20 AM

• “Distributed Simulation Templates for Repast”
• Walter de Back, Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest

9:20-9:40 AM

• “Distributed Automated Experimentation for Agent Based Models”
• Jeffrey Pfaffmann, Department of Computer Science, Lafayette College

9:40-10:00 AM

• Coffee Break

10:00-10:45 AM Featured Talk

• “Introduction to BlueGene: A massively parallel supercomputing architecture”
• Rajiv Bendale, Americas Group, BlueGene Systems, IBM

10:45-11:30 PM Featured Talk

• “With Thousands of Processor on BlueGene, Agent based models are tractable”
• Kirk Jordan, Deep Computing Branch, Systems and Technology Group, IBM

11:30-12:15 PM Featured Talk

• “Implementation of Mega-scale Agent based models using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)”
• Roshan D’Souza, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Tech University

12:15-1:30 PM Lunch (Provided on Site)

1:30-2:15 PM

• “Introduction to FLAME: A formal framework for integrated simulation development”
• Susheel Varma, Department of Computer Science, The Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield

2:15-3:00 PM

• “Introduction to MetaABM: A high-level architecture for designing, executing and systematically studying agent based models”
• Miles Parker, Metascape, LLC/Brookings Institution

3:00-3:30 PM

• Coffee Break

3:30-4:00 PM

• Roundtable Discussion and Awards and Closing Remarks

4:00-? PM

• MetaABM Tutorial
• Miles Parker, Metascape, LLC/Brookings Institution