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<h1>'''Welcome to the Swarm Development Group Wiki!'''</h1>
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<div align="center"><h1>'''Welcome to the Swarm Development Group Wiki!'''</h1></div>
 
<div style="font-size:120%;" align="center">''A resource for agent- and individual-based modelers and the home of'' '''Swarm'''</div>
 
<div style="font-size:120%;" align="center">''A resource for agent- and individual-based modelers and the home of'' '''Swarm'''</div>
  
 
<div style="font-size:90%;" align="center">The SwarmWiki is hosted by the [http://www.cscs.umich.edu Center for the Study of Complex Systems] at the University of Michigan.</div>
 
<div style="font-size:90%;" align="center">The SwarmWiki is hosted by the [http://www.cscs.umich.edu Center for the Study of Complex Systems] at the University of Michigan.</div>
 
  
 
<div align="center">[[#News|News]] | [[#Agent-_and_Individual-based_Modeling_Resources|Agent-based Modeling Resources]]  | [[#Swarm|Swarm]] | [[#Swarm_Development_Group|Swarm Development Group]] | [[#Help|Help]]  </div>
 
<div align="center">[[#News|News]] | [[#Agent-_and_Individual-based_Modeling_Resources|Agent-based Modeling Resources]]  | [[#Swarm|Swarm]] | [[#Swarm_Development_Group|Swarm Development Group]] | [[#Help|Help]]  </div>
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==News==
 
==News==
  
===Swarmfest 2009: June 28-30, 2009 in Santa Fe, New Mexico===
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===Announcement for Swarmfest 2012===
===Abstract  Submission Deadline extended to May 8, 2009!===
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*We are happy to announce that Swarmfest 2009 will be taking place in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 28-30, 2009. The conference will take place at the Santa Fe Complex ( http://sfcomplex.org/wordpress/ ).
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Email Inquiries to: swarmfest2012@gmail.com
**Registration is available on-line at ( http://www.northwesternevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x34595cab ).
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**Conference lodging will be at the Santa Fe Sage Inn ( http://www.santafesageinn.com/ ), with special rates from June 27 to checkout June 30 of $78/night. We have a block of 20 rooms. Reservations need to be made '''before May 27'''; after that the rate goes up and the unused rooms in the block get released.
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**The Call for Abstracts is also open. The deadline for submission is '''May 8, 2009'''.  Abstracts should be submitted as a one page .pdf, Arial 10 font.  Submissions should be emailed to ''swarmfest2009@swarm.org'' . Decisions on acceptance will be made on a rolling basis, with decisions on submissions made on May 8 returned by May 11, 2009.
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**The format this year will hearken back to the more discussion-based, problem-question oriented, workshop-like environment of Swarmfests of yore. Hope to see you there!
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[[Swarmfest 2012]] will take place in Downtown Charlotte, N.C. July 29-31, 2012, hosted by the Complex Systems
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Institute at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (http://complexity.uncc.edu/). The conference venue is the UNCC Center City Building http://centercity.uncc.edu/.
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Local Map http://centercity.uncc.edu/map-and-directions and Parking http://centercity.uncc.edu/parking
  
===Thanks to participants for a successful SwarmFest 2008!===
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'''Registration can be accomplished at http://www.cvent.com/d/tcqqgn'''
SwarmFest 2008 was our '''12th''' annual conference of agent-based modelers and platform developers and users. This year our host was Dr. Gary An of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago from 11-13 May. SwarmFest 2008 had two special focus themes: high-performance computing and systems biology applications.
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Swamfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group (SDG), and one of the oldest communities involved in the development and propagation of agent-based modeling.  Swarmfest has traditionally involved a mix of both tool-users and tool-developers, drawn from many domains of expertise. These have included, in the past, computer scientists, software engineers, biomedical researchers, ecologists, economists, political scientists, social scientists, resource management specialists and evolutionary biologists. Swarmfest represents a low-key environment for researchers to explore new ideas and approaches, and benefit from a multi-disciplinary environment.
  
Watch our [[SwarmFest:2008|SwarmFest 2008 page]] for an upcoming archive of the meeting, including pictures from Pietro Terna, and links to presentations from the meeting. And to see what happened the prior year in 2007 check out [[SwarmFest:2007|archive page for SwarmFest 2007]].
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This year we will continue to examine the range of systems being modeled with ABM, with the possibility of providing some guidance as to the suitability of the various types of agent-based models for particular types of modeling goals. We also encourage the sharing of our experiences with attempting to gain acceptance of ABM within our own research communities, and discuss strategies where cross-domain examples/analogies can aid in that process. We will also try to identify future avenues for ABM research, including the "next" generation of ABM tools, platforms and application.
  
===SDG to mentor two Google Summer of Code students in 2008===
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Watch this page for upcoming news on program and logistics.
Swarm Development Group has been assigned two students by [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Google's Summer of Code program]. Please welcome Haruka Matsuzaki and Pavel Vinogradov. Pavel is investigating ways to describe models using ontologies and Haruka is looking at ways to control simulations by wire using a web browser, and probably using XML-RPC. Pavel has already contributed a wiki page on 2008 Summer of Code [[Swarm:_IdeasList#SDG_participation_in_SoC|which you can find here]]. {{posted|--[[User:SFRailsback|SFRailsback]] 20:31, 22 Apr 2008 (EDT)}}
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===New SDG directors===
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Hope to see you in Charlotte!
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_Models_in_Biology_and_Medicine|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. [[SDG_directors|Information on the board and its officers is here]].
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{{posted|--[[User:Gary An|Gary An]] 16 March 2012}}
  
===Swarm for Ubuntu and Debian Linux===
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===New version of Objective-C Swarm for Windows===
Jakson Aquino produced [[Swarm:_stable_release#Compiling_Swarm_from_source_on_Ubuntu_and_Debian_Linux|detailed instructions for making Swarm from source on Ubuntu/Debian Linux, and some binaries for Ubuntu 7.04]]. Thank you Jakson! {{posted|--[[User:SFRailsback|SFRailsback]] 15:51, 28 Aug 2007 (EDT)}}
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There is a new binary (and source) release of Swarm that works with MinGW, a compiler that produces Windows executables. Advantages of this new way to use Swarm in Windows:
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* Windows executables can be launched directly from Windows, without needing to launch from inside a Unix-like environment.
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* Swarm models can be distributed for use on any Windows computer, without requiring Swarm or MinGW to be installed.
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* Faster execution than Cygwin Swarm.
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See the yellow "Swarm Software" box on this page.
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{{posted|--[[User:SFRailsback|SFRailsback]] 15 Aug 2011}}
  
 
===Be a Swarm Development Group Member!===
 
===Be a Swarm Development Group Member!===
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==Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources==
 
==Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources==
  
*'''[[ABM_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:
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*'''[[ABM_Resources|Resources for agent-based modeling]]'''. This area of the wiki is for information on agent-based modeling in general. There are sub-areas for:
 
**Agent-based modeling community resources, including [[Swarm:_SwarmFest|SwarmFest]], our annual modeling conference
 
**Agent-based modeling community resources, including [[Swarm:_SwarmFest|SwarmFest]], our annual modeling conference
 
**Software (information on alternative platforms; learning materials; template models; integrated development environments)
 
**Software (information on alternative platforms; learning materials; template models; integrated development environments)
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[[Image:Small-swarm-logo.jpeg]]
 
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==Swarm==
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==Swarm Software for Agent-based Modeling==
  
 
*'''[[Swarm_main_page|The main Swarm page]]''' for Swarm software, documentation, and applications
 
*'''[[Swarm_main_page|The main Swarm page]]''' for Swarm software, documentation, and applications
  
*''[[Swarm: applications|Thanks to Paul Johnson, a new package of applications for Swarm-2.2, particularly for Objective C]]''
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*''New release of Objective-C for Windows'' produces Windows-native executables! See [[Swarm_and_MinGW|Using Swarm on Windows with MinGW]]
  
*''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.''
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*''[[Swarm: applications|Thanks to Paul Johnson, a new package of applications for Swarm-2.2]]'', particularly for Objective C
  
 
*''[[Swarm:_Mailing_lists|Email lists for support and modeling]]''
 
*''[[Swarm:_Mailing_lists|Email lists for support and modeling]]''

Latest revision as of 13:53, 21 July 2012

Welcome to the Swarm Development Group Wiki!

A resource for agent- and individual-based modelers and the home of Swarm
The SwarmWiki is hosted by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan.
News | Agent-based Modeling Resources | Swarm | Swarm Development Group | Help

News

Announcement for Swarmfest 2012

Email Inquiries to: swarmfest2012@gmail.com

Swarmfest 2012 will take place in Downtown Charlotte, N.C. July 29-31, 2012, hosted by the Complex Systems Institute at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (http://complexity.uncc.edu/). The conference venue is the UNCC Center City Building http://centercity.uncc.edu/. Local Map http://centercity.uncc.edu/map-and-directions and Parking http://centercity.uncc.edu/parking

Registration can be accomplished at http://www.cvent.com/d/tcqqgn

Swamfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group (SDG), and one of the oldest communities involved in the development and propagation of agent-based modeling. Swarmfest has traditionally involved a mix of both tool-users and tool-developers, drawn from many domains of expertise. These have included, in the past, computer scientists, software engineers, biomedical researchers, ecologists, economists, political scientists, social scientists, resource management specialists and evolutionary biologists. Swarmfest represents a low-key environment for researchers to explore new ideas and approaches, and benefit from a multi-disciplinary environment.

This year we will continue to examine the range of systems being modeled with ABM, with the possibility of providing some guidance as to the suitability of the various types of agent-based models for particular types of modeling goals. We also encourage the sharing of our experiences with attempting to gain acceptance of ABM within our own research communities, and discuss strategies where cross-domain examples/analogies can aid in that process. We will also try to identify future avenues for ABM research, including the "next" generation of ABM tools, platforms and application.

Watch this page for upcoming news on program and logistics.

Hope to see you in Charlotte!

Posted: --Gary An 16 March 2012

New version of Objective-C Swarm for Windows

There is a new binary (and source) release of Swarm that works with MinGW, a compiler that produces Windows executables. Advantages of this new way to use Swarm in Windows:

  • Windows executables can be launched directly from Windows, without needing to launch from inside a Unix-like environment.
  • Swarm models can be distributed for use on any Windows computer, without requiring Swarm or MinGW to be installed.
  • Faster execution than Cygwin Swarm.

See the yellow "Swarm Software" box on this page.

Posted: --SFRailsback 15 Aug 2011

Be a Swarm Development Group Member!

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.
Posted: --SFRailsback 17:34, 10 Nov 2006 (EST)



Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources

  • Resources for agent-based modeling. This area of the wiki is 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.


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