Swarmfest 2009 Program

Sunday, June 28

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast /Welcome

8:00 – 8:45 AM: Introduction and Featured Speaker: Stephen Guerin from the Santa Fe Complex and the Redfish Group:

' The Santa Fe Complex: An Open and Shared Project Space for Applied Complexity: Example projects using "Ambient Computing" for participatory modeling" '

Using ABM for approximating Reality: Simulating Complexity

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

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

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

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.” Presentation Available

11:30 – 12:00 Noon: Letendre, "Modeling the effects of colony size and food heterogeneity on the foraging behavior of ants."

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch

Facilitating Model Construction: Toolkits

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

1:30 – 2:00 PM: Bocsi, “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/Discussion: How can our tools help our modelers?

7:30 PM Reception and Dinner at Cowgirl Bar and Grill http://www.cowgirlsantafe.com/

Monday, June 29

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast

Simulating Complex Agents

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

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

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

9:30 – 10:00 AM: Bramson, "Measures of Tipping Points, Robustnes, and Path Dependence." Presentation Available

10:00 – 10:15 AM: Coffee Break

Using ABM as a means of addressing Computationally Intensive Problems

10:15 – 10:45 AM: Vulli, “Artificial Ecosystems: An Artificial Life Approach to Multiobjective Optimization.”

10:45 – 11:15 AM: Sneddon, “NFsim: A Novel Agent-based Platform for Stochastic Simulation of Complex Biological Systems.” Presentation Available

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

11:45 – 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).” Presentation Available

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 stretch them?

7:30 PM Dinner at Pranzo Italian Grill http://pranzosantafe.com/

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.” Presentation Available

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