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=WWW.SWARM.ORG is back!=
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We have just restored the Swarm Development Group wiki (October 2015), following a major server crash several years ago. We will be gradually cleaning up the site. Its emphasis will be on supporting Swarm software and SDG's annual SwarmFest. We will no longer attempt to provide current information on agent-based modeling in general, or on modeling software other than Swarm.
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=News=
 
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==Swarmfest==
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==2025-05-01: Annual Meeting==
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At the annual meeting, the current executives were re-appointed to another 1 year term. See the [[SDG_Directors]] page.
  
Swamfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group (SDG), and one of the oldest communities involved in the development and propagation of agent-based modeling.  Swarmfest has traditionally involved a mix of both tool-users and tool-developers, drawn from many domains of expertise. These have included, in the past, computer scientists, software engineers, biomedical researchers, ecologists, economists, political scientists, social scientists, resource management specialists and evolutionary biologists.  Swarmfest represents a low-key environment for researchers to explore new ideas and approaches, and benefit from a multi-disciplinary environment.
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==2024-05-07: Director Election==
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The current board was re-elected to another 2 year term. See the [[SDG_Directors]] page.
  
SwarmFest 2015 was held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. For information [http://www.swarmfest2015.org/ click here.]
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Announcements for future fests should appear here.
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==2022-10-25: Quasi-Endowment==
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Now that we're re-instated as a valid 501(c)(3) with the IRS (thanks to [https://charitableallies.org/ Charitable Allies] for their help), we are pursuing a "quasi-endowment". Our intention is to invest the remaining funds and use any dividends from that investment to support ABM community members with conference registration fees, travel, etc. We will need to supplement that with donations, as well, because only a percentage of income can be from investment returns. Once we have the investment set up, we'll have an indication of how much we'll need in donations, which will provide the kernel for a fund-raising objective.
  
==New version of Objective-C Swarm for Windows==
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==2022-02-22: Officer Election==
There is a new binary (and source) release of Swarm that works with MinGW, a compiler that produces Windows executables. Advantages of this new way to use Swarm in Windows:
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Thanks to the exiting officers Matteo Morini & Jim Anderson! The new assignments are ED/President: [[User:gepr|Glen Ropella]], Vice President: Gary An, Treasurer: Ted Carmichael, Secretary: Roger Burkhart.
* Windows executables can be launched directly from Windows, without needing to launch from inside a Unix-like environment.
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* Swarm models can be distributed for use on any Windows computer, without requiring Swarm or MinGW to be installed.
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==2022-01-25: Director Election==
* Faster execution than Cygwin Swarm.
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Thanks to the exiting directors Asim Zia, Jim Anderson, Pietro Terna, Ivan Garibay, Steve Railsback, and Mirsad Hadzikadic! The new board comprises: Gary An, Roger Burkhart, Ted Carmichael, Marcus Daniels, Matteo Morini, and [[User:gepr|Glen Ropella]].
See [[Swarm_and_MinGW]]
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=Swarm Software for Agent-based Modeling=
 
=Swarm Software for Agent-based Modeling=
  
*'''[[Swarm_main_page|The main Swarm page]]''' for Swarm software, documentation, and applications
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*'''[[Swarm_main_page|The main Swarm page]]''' for the Swarm software framework, documentation, and applications
  
 
*''New release of Objective-C for Windows'' produces Windows-native executables! See [[Swarm_and_MinGW|Using Swarm on Windows with MinGW]]
 
*''New release of Objective-C for Windows'' produces Windows-native executables! See [[Swarm_and_MinGW|Using Swarm on Windows with MinGW]]
  
 
*''[[Swarm:_Mailing_lists|Email lists for support and modeling]]''
 
*''[[Swarm:_Mailing_lists|Email lists for support and modeling]]''
 
  
 
=Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources=
 
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*An old list of [https://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/sdg/member_pages/ SDG Members]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:41, 2 May 2025

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News

2025-05-01: Annual Meeting

At the annual meeting, the current executives were re-appointed to another 1 year term. See the SDG_Directors page.

2024-05-07: Director Election

The current board was re-elected to another 2 year term. See the SDG_Directors page.

OldNews

2022-10-25: Quasi-Endowment

Now that we're re-instated as a valid 501(c)(3) with the IRS (thanks to Charitable Allies for their help), we are pursuing a "quasi-endowment". Our intention is to invest the remaining funds and use any dividends from that investment to support ABM community members with conference registration fees, travel, etc. We will need to supplement that with donations, as well, because only a percentage of income can be from investment returns. Once we have the investment set up, we'll have an indication of how much we'll need in donations, which will provide the kernel for a fund-raising objective.

2022-02-22: Officer Election

Thanks to the exiting officers Matteo Morini & Jim Anderson! The new assignments are ED/President: Glen Ropella, Vice President: Gary An, Treasurer: Ted Carmichael, Secretary: Roger Burkhart.

2022-01-25: Director Election

Thanks to the exiting directors Asim Zia, Jim Anderson, Pietro Terna, Ivan Garibay, Steve Railsback, and Mirsad Hadzikadic! The new board comprises: Gary An, Roger Burkhart, Ted Carmichael, Marcus Daniels, Matteo Morini, and Glen Ropella.

Swarm Software for Agent-based Modeling

Agent- and Individual-based Modeling Resources

Resources for agent-based modeling. This area of the wiki is for information on agent-based modeling in general. This area is no longer maintained and we refer interested people to more up-to-date sites such as www.OpenABM.org

There is still information on:

  • Agent-based modeling community resources
  • 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

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