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Thanks to Bill Northcott's hard work, binaries to build Swarm models on MacOS X 10.2.x are now available on Swarm's Savannah site: http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=swarm

Step-by-step instructions for this snapshot released on 2003-02-26, are available at: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/swarm/macosx-swarm.pkg/20030226/ReadMe

Included is everything needed to use Swarm on a standard MacOS X 10.2.x install with Apple December 2002 developer Tools. Later snapshots will have later dates and will be found at the main file list link (the first link given above). Feedback should be directed to the Swarm support mailing list.

The Swarm mailing lists have been migrated to a Mailman mailing list server at: http://www.swarm.org/mailman/listinfo/. All existing subscriptions have been migrated to the new mail server. All subscription options can now be performed by a web-based interface.

SwarmFest goes East! The Seventh Annual SwarmFest will be held on April 13-15, 2003 on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

The conference web site is at: http://www.nd.edu/~swarm03

Abstracts, full papers, tutorial proposals, and posters are solicited. Many thanks to Greg Madey of the Computer Science and Engineering Dept at the University of Notre Dame for hosting it this year. Hope to see you this April!

The Swarm website is now hosted by the friendly folks at the Columbia Basin Research unit at the University of Washington. Our thanks to Jim Anderson, George Kremlicka and Susannah Iltis for making this possible.

Development snapshots. are now the recommended installation form for most developers, more information on the Release page.

Contributions page. The section on the ftp site for contributed Swarm applications has changed considerably. We now split up package by language (java or objc), and within that by contrib packages (which now includes all the packages that used to be in the old eval and anarchy) and sdg packages (the core applications that the SDG maintains). Instructions for contributing have also been updated.

The Swarm CVS repository is now available via anonymous CVS at via our project page at Savannah. You can browse the source on the web, or check it out to your machine.

Swarm is moving much of our active development to our new project site at: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/swarm/ part of Savannah run by the Free Software Foundation. Savannah hosts free software projects, exclusively. Please get involved by submitting bugs, viewing active tasks or especially submitting patches!

Please become an active developer by registering for an account which will allow you to post bug reports, add tasks, and help us track contributions. You will also need to register for us to be able to add you with write access to the CVS repository. Swarm is a collaborative free software enterprise, so we need your help, both technical and financial!

Thanks again to Pietro for being the diligent SwarmFest photo-journalist!

This year it's at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

Our thanks goes to Jim Anderson and his team at the Columbia Basin Research unit at the University of Washington for kindly volunteering to host the event!!

Agent-Based Methods in Economics and Finance: Simulations in Swarm by Luna & Perrone (2001).

Wow!

(including printable versions in PostScript and PDF) are now online!

SwarmFest 2001 in Santa Fe! April 28-30, 2001

Polhill, J. G., Gotts, N. M., Law, A. N. R. (2001) Imitative versus nonimitative strategies in a land-use simulation

Date: March 27, 2001

Questions:

Theme: system engineering, software science, artificial intelligence, artificial markets, evolutionary economics, economics, sociology, management, combinatorial logic, from a multiagent point of view

The first annual report of the SDG is now available with all the latest developments in Swarm-land. Check out a preview of what's up for Swarm 2.2 and beyond... (with your help of course!)

Swarm and COM from the the GIS/EM4 conference is available as slide presentations.

Swarm gave a workshop at Artificial Life VII at 8 am on August 3 (see the schedule for more details). The A-Life conference was held in Portland, Oregon from August 1 to 6. Next Generation Swarm presented at the workshop paper, is available as slide presentation.

Slides from a full-day Swarm tutorial developed for the Santa Fe Institute's 2000 Complex Systems Summer School are now available online.

A new section on simulation tools and environment that are related to, or inter-operate with, Swarm, including the Integrating Modelling Toolkit (IMT) and the Multi Agent Modelling Language (MAML).

Swarm 2.1.1 fixes several problems specific to Windows 9x.

Benedikt Stefannson's and Franceso Luna's Economic Simulations in Swarm: Agent-Based Modelling and Object Oriented Programming has been published this year by Kluwer. Includes a tutorial on Swarm by Benedikt on Swarm - see the reference [Luna:Stefansson:2000] for more information and the publisher's abstract.