SwarmFest2005/Program

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Program

All events in Villa Gualino (viale Settimio Severo 65, on the hills of Torino), except the Monday Dinner

Sunday, June 5 2005

2:00 PM to 6:30 PM Pre-conference Swarm Tutorial

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Poster Session and Opening Conference Reception

Monday, June 6 2005

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome address: Mario Rasetti, director of ISI

Announcements: Pietro Terna

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (chair P. Terna)

Invited lecture: Sorin Solomon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Complexity and agent based simulation

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee break and Demos

10:30 AM - 1:00 PM (chair G. Britton)

P.E. Johnson and E S. Herron, Assessing Variation in Mixed Electoral Rules Using Agent-Based Models, presented by Paul E. Johnson, University of Kansas [post conference documentation]

R. Boero, Public Goods Provision in the Field: ABMs of a Local Production System Considering Empirical Behaviour and Communication, presented by Riccardo Boero, University of Surrey, UK [post conference documentation]

F. Coulon, Schumpeterian competition with SWARM, an agent-based framework for computational modeling, presented by Fabrice Coulon, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

A. Dal Forno and U. Merlone, Selecting team members: a computational model for studying network dynamics, presented by Ugo Merlone, University of Torino, Italy

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Break (buffet)

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (chair P. Johnson)

A. Kaempf, Teaching Ants to Drive: An agent-based model of the UK automobile market, presented by Andreas Kaempf, Soundience limited, UK

M. L'Episcopo and A. Sgroi, Citrus Tristeza Virus desease modeling, presented by Malvina L'Episcopo, Proteo Inc., Italy [post conference documentation]

T.A. El Doker and T. W. Olson, Swarm-based UAV Simulation Incorporating ACO and Optical-based Constraints, presented by Timothy W. Olson, Machine Perception Laboratory, Northern Arizona University

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Coffee break and Demos

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (chair A. Kaempf)

M. Richiardi and F. Paladi, Jesus, Hillel and the Man of the Street. Moral and Social Norms in Heterogeneous Populations, presented by Matteo Richiardi, LABORatorio R. Revelli Center for Employment Studies, Italy

M. Lamieri and M. Remondino, Theory of Social Networks Applied to an Evolutionary Minority Game: an AgentBased Model in Swarm, presented by Marco Remondino, University of Torino, Italy [post conference documentation]

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

General discussion, with Graeme Britton (chair), Riccardo Boero, Guido Fioretti, Paul Johnson, Matteo Richiardi, Sorin Solomon, Michele Sonnessa and all participants, on What users ask to agent based simulation tools and what our tools can offer.

8:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Dinner in Palazzo Barolo, in downtown (bus to Palazzo Barolo, via delle Orfane 7 in Torino, starting at 7:30 PM and coming back at the end of the dinner)

Tuesday, June 7 2005

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM (chair L. Gulyás)

Pietro Terna, The co-evolution of enterprise systems and employment structures, presented by Pietro Terna, University of Torino, Italy [post conference documentation]

G. Fioretti and A. Lomi, An Agent-Based Version of the “Garbage Can” Model of Organizational Decision-Making, presented by Guido Fioretti, University of Bologna, Italy [post conference documentation]

D. Ietri and M. Lamieri, Networks between markets and hierarchical structures: an agent based simulation framework, presented by M.Lamieri, University of Torino, Italy [post conference documentation]

A. Cappellini and A. Raimondi, An hybrid simulation of banks lending process, presented by Alessandro Raimondi, University of Torino, Italy [post conference documentation]

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee break and Demos

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (chair U. Merlone)

L. Gulyás, S. Bartha, T. Kozsik, R. Szalai, A. Korompai, G. Tatai, The Multi-Agent Simulation Suite (MASS) and the Functional Agent-Based Language of Simulation (FABLES), presented by László Gulyás, Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary [post conference documentation]

G.A. Britton and S.B. Tor, Expert Systems for Design: The Challenge for SWARM, presented by Graeme A. Britton, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [post conference documentation]

T.A. El Doker, I.J. Rich, J.T. King, B.H. Adams and J.E. Holmes, Embedding Swarm on Bluetooth-enabled Bipedal Robots with Multiple Modalities, presented by Timothy W. Olson, Machine Perception Laboratory, Northern Arizona University

G. Ferraris and R. Marras, The value of the security, presented by Gianluigi Ferraris, University of Torino, Italy [post conference documentation1, documentation2]

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Break (buffet)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

General discussion with László Gulyás (chair), Roberto Berchi, Andreas Kaempf, Marco Lamieri, Jurgen van der Pol and all participants, on Expanding SDG/agent-based activities in Europe, including the possibility of a second European SwarmFest in 2006 or 2007.

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Final remarks and conclusions.

3:30 PM

Goodbye coffee.

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