Swarmfest2010 program

Sunday, June 20

• 8:30 – 9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast

• 9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome and Introduction

• • Working in Groups: Collaborative Approaches to Model Development I

• 9:15 – 9:45 AM: Stephen Guerin: Agent-Based Modeling meets Ambient Computing for Participatory Modeling

• 9:45 – 10:15 AM: James Bushik: The Governing Dynamics of Human Team Activity

• 10:15 – 10:45 AM: Cristina Villa and Nayeli Ramirez: Classroom Behavior (New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge)

• 10:45 – 11:00 AM Morning Break

• • Modeling and Models: Approaches and Examples I

• 11:00 – 11:30 AM: Riccardo Boero: Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-based Model

• 11:30 – 12:00 Noon: Ken Lloyd: A Category-Theoretic Approach to Agent-based Modeling and Simulation

• 12:00 – 12:30 PM: James Anderson: The Value of Neural-based Swarm Rules

• 12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch and Conversation

• 1:30 – 2:00 PM: Mirsad Hadzikadic: Exploring a Complex Adaptive System (CAS): Simulation of Predator Prey Dynamics

• • Collaborative Modeling Part II

• 2:00 – 2:30 PM Miles Parker: The Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform: The Right Space a the Right time

• 2:30 – 3:00 PM Rex Briggs: What will it take to bring computer simulation to the Layman? Taking VOOM (Visually Oriented Object Modeling) to the next level with an Open Source Effort

• 3:00 – 3:30 PM Afternoon Break and Discussion

• • Modeling and Models: Approaches and Examples II

• 3:30 – 4:00 PM Sara Hartse: The Spread of Black Death in London (New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge)

• 4:00 – 4:30 PM Gregory Madey: An Agent-based Model of the Anopheles gambiae Distinct Life Stages and its C++ implementation: AGILESim

• 4:30 – 5:00 PM: Ted Carmichael: On Non-intuitive Agent Dynamics in a General Complex System Simulation

• 5:00 – 6:00 PM: Open Discussion Session

Monday, June 21

• 7:30 – 8:00 AM: Continental Breakfast

• • Parallel and Distributed Implementation of Agent-based Models

• 8:00 – 8:30 AM: Gregory Davis: Taking advantage of multi-core systems: A case study in the parallelization of an agent-based model of the Anopheles Gambiae Mosquito

• 8:30 – 9:00 AM: Nathan Menke: CUDA Provides Significant Runtime Performance Improvements for a Complex ABMS

• 9:00 – 9:30 AM: Tamas Mahr: Simulation in the Cloud

• 9:30 – 10:00 AM: Edoardo Pignotti: Using a Virtual Machine Environment to Support Simulation on the Grid

• 10:00 – 10:15 AM Morning Break

• • Methods for the Analysis of Agent-based Models

• 10:15 – 10:45 AM: James Gentile: Verifying Agent-based Simulations Through Steady State Analysis

• 10:45 – 11:15 AM: S.M. Niaz Arifin: Verification and Validation by Four-Fold Docking: A Case Study of Agent-based Models of Anopheles gambiae

• 11:15 – 11:45 AM: Peter Ahrens and Stephanie Djidjev: To Kill a Flocking Bird (New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge)

• 11:45 – 12:15 PM: Virginia Nivar: Verification of an Agent-Based Model: Meeting the Challenge of Verifying Object-Oriented Code that Executes Stochastically

• 12:15 – 12:45 PM: Aaron Bramson: Temporal Webs: Analyzing Dynamics with a Trans-Temporal Network Representation

• 12:45 – 1:45 PM: Lunch and Conversation

• 1:45 – 2:15 PM: S. M. Niaz Arifin: P-SAM: A Post-Simulation Analysis Module for Agent-based Models

• • Modeling and Models: Approaches and Examples III

• 2:15 –2:45 PM: Pietro Terna: An Aesop fairy story on an Artificial Neural Network

• 2:45 – 3:30 PM: Amy Bauer: From Molecule to Morphology: A Multiscale Cell-based Mode of Angiogenesis

• 3:30 – 3:45 PM Afternoon Break

• 3:45 – 4:15 PM Ryan Cortez: Accelerated Particles vs. Metastatic Cells (New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge)

• 4:15 – 4:45 PM Bryan Thorne: Development of an Agent-based Model of Arterial Wall Remodeling in Response to Hypertension

• 4:45 – 5:30 PM Open Discussion

Tuesday, June 22

• 8:00 – 8:30 AM: Continental Breakfast

• 8:30 – 10:15 AM: Workshop 1

• 10:15 – 10:30 AM: Morning Break

• 10:30 – 12:00 Noon: Workshop 2 and Closing

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