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Membership in SDG is a way to support our efforts to maintain and improve Swarm, and to support agent-based modeling. We just updated our membership page with new membership categories and procedures. Take a look to see what you can do. --SFRailsback 17:34, 10 Nov 2006 (EST)

Call for Papers: Agent-Directed Simulation (ADS'07) Symposium

New wiki content for Repast, MASON, NetLogo, and Swarm: template models and IDEs

New pages in the ABM Resources area of the wiki contain information for selecting and learning to use one of these popular platforms for agent-based modeling.

• Reviews and comparisons of ABM software platforms.
• Software_templates: 16 working models that start extremely simple and sequentially add common features such as space objects, graphs, probes, random number distributions, and file input and output. The models are implemented in MASON, NetLogo, Repast, and Java and Objective-C Swarm. These template codes can be used to compare platforms and to get started using them.
• Information on integrated development environments including specific instructions for using the Eclipse IDE with MASON, Repast, and Java Swarm.

Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources

• Resources for agent-based modeling. This is a new area of the wiki for information on agent-based modeling in general. There are sub-areas for:
  • Agent-based modeling community resources
  • Software (information on alternative platforms; learning materials; template models; integrated development environments)
  • "How and why to do agent-based modeling": techniques and theory
  • Resources specific to different scientific domains

• modelling@swarm.org: The email community of agent-based modelers. This email list discusses topics of general interest to agent-based modelers. More information and signup here.

Swarm

• The main Swarm page for Swarm software, documentation, and applications

• Description and fixes for a bug in the getMin and getMax method of Swarm's Averager class

• Thanks to Paul Johnson, a new package of applications for Swarm-2.2, particularly for Objective C

• Download site moved: The download site for Swarm software, examples, documentation, etc. has been moved from ftp :// ftp.swarm.org to http://ftp.swarm.org. Please send an email to support@swarm.org if you find any links needing updating.

• Email lists for support and modeling

Swarm Development Group

• Swarm Development Group (SDG)

• Contact information

• SDG Members

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