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Conference Announcement:

Social Computing, Behavior Modeling and Prediction

March 29 - April 1, 2010 Natcher Auditorium National Institutes of Health (NIH) Main Campus Bethesda, MD

Hosted by: National Institutes of Health

Sponsoring Organizations: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

Conference Website: http://www.SBPConference.org

Thank you to all participants for a successful Swarmfest 2009!

For a summary of the meeting, the Swarmfest 2009 program and abstracts, and pictures from our Photohistorian and Long-time Swarmer, Pietro Terna, see the Swarmfest 2009 Page

SDG Google Summer of Code students and Projects from 2008

New SDG directors

Swarm Development Group recently added two new members to their board of directors. Gary An is physician on the faculty of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and pioneer of agent-based modeling in medicine. John Pepper is a professor in the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and member of the Santa Fe Institute's external faculty. Information on the board and its officers is here.

Swarm for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

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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, including SwarmFest, our annual modeling conference
  • 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

• 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

• Information on SDG membership

• SDG Members

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