19th Annual SwarmFest Conference
July 10 - 12, 2015
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208 USA
http://www.swarmfest2015.org
submissions@swarmfest2015.org
Call for Abstracts:
SwarmFest 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.
We also encourage the sharing of our experiences with attempting to gain acceptance of ABM within our own research communities, and discuss strategies where cross-domain examples/analogies can aid in that process. We will also try to identify future avenues for ABM research, including the “next” generation of ABM tools, platforms and applications.
This year, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Policy Design with Agent-based Models
Agent-based models for simulation & training
Dynamic Human behavior ABMs
Human factors simulations
Digital humanities
Agent-based Models and Simulators of the Economy
Aggregation and Emergent Macroeconomics
General Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth
Socio-economic and Financial Networks
Agent-based modeling methodology
Agent ontologies
Model replication, verification & validation
Participatory & Human-in-the-Loop simulations
Simulation software & programming computational frameworks
Agent-based computational economics & finance
Conflict resolution & cooperation
Coupled human-natural systems
Diffusion of innovations
Dynamics of trust, social norm, structures, reputation & opinion
Epidemiology & pharmacoeconomics
Group decisions & collective behaviors
Market design, mechanism design & auctions
Social networks and their dynamics
To submit your work for consideration, please send an extended abstract to submissions@swarmfest2015.org. The deadline for abstracts is June 1st.
Registration:
Registration will be available through the University of South Carolina Center for Digital Humanities.
By June 1st
$200 Standard
$100 Students
After June 1st
$250 Standard
$125 Students
Registration fees include all meeting materials, meals, coffee, refreshments as well as a receptions. See the conference website http://www.swarmfest2015.org for further details.
17th Annual SwarmFest Conference
June 29th - July 1, 2014
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN, USA
http://www.swarmfest2014.org
swarmfest2014@gmail.com
Call for Abstracts:
The Swarm Development Group, in conjunction with the University of Notre Dame Computer Science & Engineering Department, invites the submission of Abstracts for the 17th Annual SwarmFest Conference, to be held at the University of Notre Dame from June 29th - July 1st, 2014.
SwarmFest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group, one of the oldest communities involved with the development and propagation of agent-based modeling. The meeting brings together both users and developers of agent based models across many domains, including computer science, software engineering, biology, ecology, economics, political science, social science, public health/safety and resource management.
The goal of the conference is to share research and experiences within the agent-based modeling community, and to further guide and enhance future research efforts. Submissions are encouraged for any area of agent-based modeling.
To submit your work for consideration, please send an extended abstract to swarmfest2014@gmail.com. The deadline for abstracts is June 1st. All accepted submissions will be expected to deliver a 20-30 minute presentation. All presenters will also be encouraged to bring an optional poster for a separate poster session.
Registration:
Early registration is $200 standard and $100 for students by June 1st, and increases to $250 standard and $125 for students after June 1st. Meals and refreshments will be provided. For lodging, a block of rooms have been reserved at the Morris Inn on the Notre Dame campus, across from the conference center. See the conference website www.swarmfest2014.org for further details.
Dates:
Early Registration Deadline is June 1st
Submission Deadline is June 1st
Conference: June 29th - July 1, 2014
Hello,
The Swarm mailing lists are moving!
We thank the University of Michigan for housing the Swarm mailing lists for the past many years, but with aging hardware it is time to move the lists to another server. The Swarm Development Group (SDG) has determined to move the mailing lists to be alongside the Swarm source code, which is located at GNU's Savannah repository. The mailing list archives have been preserved and will be available with the new lists.
You are getting this email because we are automatically transferring all of the subscribed users to the new mailing lists. If you no longer wish to be subscribed to this Swarm mailing, please use the link below to unsubscribe. We apologize ahead of time if you receive subscription emails for the other lists! You will want to update your contact list as the email address used for the mailing list has changed.
You may have noticed that the Swarm website, http://www.swarm.org, has not been available recently. We are also in the process of migrating the Swarm wiki to a new server, and we hope to have a new website available soon!
Sincerely,
Swarm Development Group
The download site for Swarm software, examples, documentation, etc. has been moved from ftp :// ftp.swarm.org/ to http://ftp.swarm.org/. Please send an email to support@swarm.org if you find any links needing updating.
Thanks to the hard work of the admins at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at UMich, the DNS problem seems fixed and all Swarm services: mailing lists, web and wiki should all be up again as of 2005-04-19 afternoon (US. PST). Please followup to this news if you are still having problems.
As of the afternoon (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time) on Monday April 18. swarm.org was having DNS problems due to upstream issues with the network at the University of Michigan (http://www.umich.edu/). This affects the website and wiki, and all mailing lists that use the @swarm.org address. The good folks the CSCS (http://www.cscs.umich.edu/ whose subdomain is also affected!) are working on getting things back to normal.
SwarmFest 2005 will be held in Torino, Italy, June 5-7, 2005. Submissions requested by April 25. Notice of acceptance sent by May 2. Early review and acceptance decision made on request. Late submissions accepted if space in the schedule is available. Please see the website for more information:
http://www.swarm.org/wiki/SwarmFest2005
All MacOS X binaries are now at:
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/macosx/
Older URLs are no longer available.
The development snapshots have been wrapped up into the newly released Swarm 2.2. Information on the release, and download links, are at the Swarm wiki. The wiki is now the main Swarm web site, at www.swarm.org. See the "stable release" page. Bill Northcott's MacOS code is included on that page; it is now available at ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/macosx/
New binaries are available for running Swarm on MacOS X 10.3 Panther.
Until the Savannah files area is working properly again, these will be at http://banking.web.unsw.edu.au/w.northcott
These files include everything other than standard Apple software needed to build and run Swarm models on Panther.
There are several versions of the gcc compiler provided. One is identical with that supplied with Xcode 1.5 except that it has a small patch for a nested messages bug. The other is a bleeding edge version built from the latest code in Apple's opensurce cvs. The second compiler includes Fortran, libffi and the GNU Objective-C runtime library.
Enjoy
Bill Northcott
For more up-to-date information, you can check out the new SwarmWiki:
http://wiki.swarm.org
Eventually this will become our new main website.
New binaries are available for running Swarm on MacOS X 10.3 Panther.
Until the Savannah files area is working properly again, these will be with the 10.2 Jaguar files at http://banking.web.unsw.edu.au/w.northcott
These files include everything other than standard Apple software needed to build and run Swarm models on Panther.
There are two versions of the gcc compiler provided. One is identical with that supplied with Xcode 1.1 except that it has a small patch for a nested messages bug. The other is a bleeding edge version built from the latest code in Apple's opensurce cvs.
Bill Northcott
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan and the Swarm Development Group (SDG) are pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Swarm Users/Researchers Meeting to be held on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on May 9-11 2004. For more information, please see the conference website: http://cscs.umich.edu/swarmfest04/
As temporary measure until the download facility on Savannah is fixed, binary files for MacOS X are available at: http://banking.web.unsw.edu.au/w.northcott/
Bill Northcott
15 Jan 04
The MacOS X and other related Swarm files are temporarily unavailable due to a Savannah site-wide system "crack" a few weeks ago. Please see the statement here for more details:
http://savannah.gnu.org/statements/savannah-restored.txt.asc
Also the method of access to CVS for both developers and users of anonymous CVS for the Swarm project have changed and "pserver" access is now longer allowed, please see the above statement about how to update your CVS checkout to conform with the new system.
Hi all, at http://digilander.libero.it/pterna/SwarmFest2003/SwarmFest2003.htm
you'll find my pictures of SwarmFest 2003 and of the wonderful Campus
of Notre Dame.
All the best, Pietro
Source code changes in CVS (no binaries)