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Recent papers

• Integrating Simulation Technologies with Swarm: a paper delivered to the "Agent Simulation: Applications, Models and Tools" conference held at University of Chicago in October of 1999.
• Writing fast models in Swarm a paper delivered at SwarmFest 2000.
• An open framework for agent-based modeling: slides for a talk delivered at "Applications of Multi-Agent Systems in Defense Analysis", a workshop held at Los Alamos National Labs in April 2000
• Next Generation Swarm slides for a talk delivered at the Artificial Life VII conference on August 3rd, 2000
• Swarm and COM slides for the integration workshop at the GIS/EM4 conference on September 2nd, 2000

Older papers (reverse chronological order)

• An OOPSLA '97 position paper on summarizing the schedules of activity in the Swarm simulation system. (Postscript)
• Old [Minar:1996] overview paper (Postscript)
• OOPSLA '95 position paper on create-phase customization as used by Swarm libraries.
• A 1995 overview paper (Postscript) (draft version of 1996 paper).
• OOPSLA '94 position paper on the concurrent object model implemented by Swarm.
• A very early 1994 overview (Postscript)
• David Hiebeler's 1994 paper describing the original (pre-Objective C) prototype of Swarm and the use of individual-based modeling in ecology and other fields