SwarmFest:2007

SwarmFest 2007

Overview

The 2007 SwarmFest was hosted by Professor Steve Lytinen of DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems. We met at DePaul's loop campus in downtown Chicago, July 12-14.

Keynote and invited speakers included:

• Tim Kohler, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, and Santa Fe Institute: The Making of a Catastrophe: How Agent-Based Modeling is Helping Archaeologists Unravel the Last Century of Farming Occupation in the Northern US Southwest
• Seth Tisue, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University: What's New in NetLogo
• Scott Christley, University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Swarming to a Spot: Tight Integration with the Mac OSX Platform
• Michael North, Argonne National Lab's Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation: Spreading the Word: Communicating the Utility of Agent-based Modeling

to the Larger World

Click here for the schedule of presentations and events (PDF)

Presentations

Here are some of the presentations made at SwarmFest (presentation slides in .PDF format).

• Gary An, Evolving Biomedical Ontologies in "Knowledge-Ecologies": A Proposal for an Agent Based Approach (abstract) (presentation)
• Gary An, Iterative Automated Named Entity Recognition to Bootstrap Biomedical Lexicon Generation (abstract) (presentation)
• Salim Bitam, Bees' approach simulation for the topology management in the mobile ad hoc network using the NetLogo Simulator
• Karen May, Mobilization, Voting, & Policy: An Agent Based Model of the Political Process
• Steve Railsback, State-based Predictive Theory for Modeling Adaptive Behavior of Animals (and People?)
• Forrest Sondahl, Multi-agent Communication Disorders: Dynamic Breeding Networks in Genetic Algorithms
• Paulo Urbano, Evolution of “Cadavre Exquis”, Auto-organization in the genesis of collective paintings
• Ken Webb, Xholon – an ABM tool based on “Monkey Topology”

Pictures (click on thumbs for full-size image)

Opening reception on the DePaul Center roof, Sears Tower in the background

Jim Anderson models the SwarmFest t-shirts designed by his wife Michelle to make us look more dangerous

Rui Lopes of CISUC, Portugal, presents his model of self-organization of human settlements

Bryan Thorne, biomedical engineering researcher at University of Virginia and winner of the Tangled Web Award

Tim Kohler (left) warms up before his fascinating keynote presentation at the banquet, in the Berghoff Restaurant's gemütlich Bierkeller