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News Swarmfest 2009: June 28-30, 2009 in Santa Fe, New Mexico 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/ ). Registration is available on-line at ( http://www.northwesternevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x34595cab ). 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. The Call for Abstracts is also open. The deadline for submission is May 1, 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 1 returned by May 6, 2009. 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! Thanks to participants for a successful SwarmFest 2008! 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. Watch our 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 archive page for SwarmFest 2007. SDG to mentor two Google Summer of Code students in 2008 Swarm Development Group has been assigned two students by 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 which you can find here. Posted: --SFRailsback 20:31, 22 Apr 2008 (EDT) 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) 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) 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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