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News Swarm and Google Summer of Code 2007 Swarm Development Group has been accepted as a participating open-source software project for Google's Summer of Code program, and proposals are now being accepted. Interested students should see our ideas page. Swarm and Objective-C++ Objective-C++ is a new addition to the gcc compiler that allows code to mix Objective-C and C++. Marcus Daniels and Gennady Telegin just developed a version of Swarm that works with the Objective-C++ compiler, making a new way to obtain the advantages of both C++ (e.g., many libraries; better speed) and Swarm. See the FAQ on C++ and Swarm. New Wiki Content: Speed-ups New material on the Swarm FAQ section of the wiki discusses ways to make a model run faster, including use of the Objective-C profiler. Some methods apply to non-Swarm models. This topic was a strong interest of the user community expressed at SwarmFest 2006. See the FAQ section on run-time problems. Posted: --SFRailsback 11:31, 28 Feb 2007 (EST) NAACSOS 2007 Conference The North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science announces its 2007 conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; June 7-9. The conference will include tutorials in NetLogo, Repast, and MASON software and Dynamic Network Analysis. See: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/events/conferences/2007/ Posted: --SFRailsback 11:10, 10 Jan 2007 (EST) 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. --SFRailsback 17:34, 10 Nov 2006 (EST) Village Project Wins Award The Village project at Washington State University is one of the oldest Swarm applications, studying social and environmental interactions in the prehistoric cultures of the American southwest. Their recent paper "Modeling Historical Ecology, Thinking about Contemporary Systems" just received an award for "Exemplary Cross Sub-Field Research". See the wiki's Agent-Based_Models_in_Culture/Anthropology page for details and a link. Congratulations to Tim Kohler and his team.--SFRailsback 23:13, 14 Nov 2006 (EST) 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. Posted: --SFRailsback 12:23, 6 Mar 2006 (EST) News archive How to submit a news item	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 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
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