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News Preliminary announcement: SwarmFest 2008! Swarm Development Group is happy to announce advance plans for SwarmFest 2008. Dr. Gary An has offered to host at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Registration and opening reception are scheduled for the evening of May 11, with technical sessions on the 12th-13th. The 2007 SwarmFest in Chicago (see below) was a great success and we look forward to returning. Additional information will be posted as planning proceeds. Posted: --SFRailsback 22:47, 12 Nov 2007 (EST) 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 Jakson Aquino produced detailed instructions for making Swarm from source on Ubuntu/Debian Linux, and some binaries for Ubuntu 7.04. Thank you Jakson! Posted: --SFRailsback 15:51, 28 Aug 2007 (EDT) SwarmFest 2007 Presentations and Pictures We now have an archive page up for SwarmFest 2007. Take a look for pictures and presentations by many of the speakers. New release of EcoLab for C++ modellers Russell Standish is pleased to announce the release of Ecolab.4.D25. This is the first major release of EcoLab for almost 2 years, and consists of a major effort to eliminate all known bugs in the package, prior to starting work on EcoLab 5. There are a few new features added as well. See http://ecolab.sourceforge.net Russell also announces: "EcoLab 5 represents an opportunity to redesign/refactor the package, retaining all the good points of Ecolab 4. At this stage, no code has been written, but it is just a concept in my mind to make this an even better C++ ABM environment. I'd like to open up discussion with the modelling community to see what people would like. I'm particularly interested to hear from people interested in using C++, and who use EcoLab now, or have tried EcoLab and found it wanting, just what it is you'd like in a C++ modelling package." Please contact Russell if you are interested in a C++ platform for agent-based modeling. Posted: --SFRailsback 17:38, 3 Aug 2007 (EDT) Xholon project implements "StupidModel" template agent-based models Xholon is an open-source modeling platform that supposed agent-based models. Ken Webb of the Xholon project recently demonstrated this platform's capabilities by implementing all 16 of the "StupidModel" template ABMs, which have also been implemented in Swarm, Repast, NetLogo, and other platforms. See the template code page for additional information. Information on Xholon is at: http://www.primordion.com/Xholon and https://sourceforge.net/projects/xholon/ 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. Posted: --SFRailsback 10:06, 16 Mar 2007 (EDT) 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) 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, 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
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