Swarm: SwarmFest

Latest revision as of 20:54, 14 July 2012

[edit] What is SwarmFest?

SwarmFest is SDG's annual agent-based modeling conference. SwarmFest is informal, interdisciplinary, non-denominational (users of Repast, NetLogo, etc. and even FORTRAN are welcome), and international. SwarmFest is an excellent place to present new or tentative results, talk about methodological issues, and meet new collaborators. SwarmFest also serves as a users' conference for Swarm; we collect input from users and potential users to set priorities for development, support, and other SDG activities.

[edit] Swarmfest 2012

Swarmfest 2012 will be held at the Downtown Campus of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte from July 29 to July 30, 2012. For registration, abstract submission, lodging and social program information please seen the Swarmfest 2012 Page.

[edit] Swarmfest 2011

Swarmfest 2011 will be held at the Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico from June 26 to June 28, 2011. For registration, abstract submission, lodging and social program information please seen the Swarmfest 2011 Page

[edit] Swarmfest 2010

Swarmfest 2010 will be held at the Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 20-22, 2010. For registration and abstract submission information see the Swarmfest 2010 Page.

[edit] SwarmFest 2009

SwarmFest 2009 was held at the Santa Fe Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 28-30, 2009. For a summary of the meeting, program and presentations see the Swarmfest 2009 Page.

[edit] SwarmFest 2008

SwarmFest 2008 was held May 11-13, 2008 and hosted by Dr. Gary An at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. See the SwarmFest 2008 page for program information.

[edit] SwarmFest 2007

SwarmFest 2007 was held July 12-14 at DePaul University's campus in the heart of downtown Chicago. Presentations, the schedule, and pictures are here.

[edit] SwarmFest 2006

SwarmFest 2006 was at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 23-24 June. It partially coincided with the North American Association for Computational Social and Organization Science conference. For additional information, see the SwarmFest 2006 web site.

[edit] SwarmFest 2005

SwarmFest2005 was held in Torino, Italy, from June 5-7, 2005.

[edit] SwarmFest 2004

SwarmFest 2004 was held at the Center for Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, please see the old conference website for details.

[edit] SwarmFest 2003

SwarmFest 2003 was held at the University of Notre Dame. It was hosted by the Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering and The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity.

[edit] SwarmFest 2002

SwarmFest 2002 was held at the University of Washington. Please see the old conference website.

[edit] SwarmFest 2001

See SwarmFest 2001.

[edit] SwarmFest 2000

The Geography Department and the RSGIS Lab at [http://www.usu.edu/ Utah State University] in collaboration with the Swarm Development Group, Santa Fe, New Mexico, held SwarmFest 2000 on Saturday March 11th to Monday 13th, at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

The original call for participation can be found at the conference website:

http://www.ext.usu.edu/confer/swarmfest2000.

Thanks to Irene Lee and Paul Box for getting the conference up and running, and to all who took part. Any conference followups will be posted here.

[edit] SwarmFest '99

The UCLA Center for Comparative Political Economy, in collaboration with the Swarm Program at the Santa Fe Institute, was pleased to sponsor SwarmFest '99, the third annual meeting of the Swarm User Group. SwarmFest '99 began on Saturday evening, March 27th and continued through Monday, March 29th, 1999 at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thanks to all who took part.

[edit] SwarmFest '98

The 2nd Meeting of the Swarm Users Group was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 23-24, 1998. SwarmFest attracts researchers from diverse disciplines who have a common interest in multi-agent modelling using Swarm. Past and present Swarm developers participated in the conference. [http://www.swarm.org/swarmfest98/pictures.html Pictures from the conference!]

[edit] SwarmFest '97

The inaugural SwarmFest was held in Feb 16-17, 1997, that brought together all the people who have been part of the Swarm development and beta processes for a free-ranging, face-to-face interchange of approaches, ideas, gripes, tale-telling, and fun! Here's the SwarmFest '97 Summary of Events.