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RE: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in ecology ?


From: Marshall, James A R
Subject: RE: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in ecology ?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:01:59 -0000

Alex,
  you could also take a look at Ezequiel Di Paolo's paper on ecological
symmetry breaking where he compares an ABM and EBM of the same system and
concludes that they give substantially different results due to their
different representations of space.
Di Paolo, E. (2000) Ecological Symmetry Breaking can Favour the Evolution of
Altruism in an Action-response Game. Journal of Theoretical Biology 203, 2,
pp. 135-152
  Enjoy your viva,
        James

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Dr James A R Marshall
Complex Systems Modelling Group (COSMIC)
Department of Earth Science and Engineering
Imperial College London
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7493
Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 7444
Container World Project - http://www.ese.ic.ac.uk/research/containerworld/



-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Lancaster [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 27 March 2003 00:48
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in
ecology?


>>>>> "LG" == Lou Gross writes:

LG> Alex, On the specific topic you mentioned (compare and constrast
LG> ABM/IBM to classical models), I suggest you might include the
LG> paper by Lorenz Fahse, Christian Wissel, and Volker Grimm
LG> "Reconciling classical and individual-based approaches in
LG> theoretical population ecology: a protocol for extracting
LG> population parameters from individual-based models" published in
LG> American Naturalist 152:838-852 (Dec. 1998) available through
LG> Jstor.  Volker Grimm and colleagues have published alot more on
LG> this topic since then, but that paper lays out a good framework
LG> for the topic you mentioned. Note that Eli Meir has been working
LG> on a whole book on this topic as well, based around what he has
LG> learned from developing Ecobeaker - I don't think the book is out
LG> yet though.  

Hi Lou,

Thanks for you suggestions.  The Volker Grimm paper is certainly high
on the citation lists!

LG> Regarding what pre-dated Swarm, you should realize that Swarm has
LG> been around in one form or another for a long time - I first saw a
LG> demo of it when we invited Dave Hiebeler here for a visit in
LG> mid-1994, at which time it was still at such a stage that we
LG> decided for the ATLSS project to develop our own C++ code.  Good
LG> luck preparing for the exams!  

Yes I remember myself, having stumbled across the early papers on
Swarm (e.g. describing the Hiebler prototype) sometime in 1994 before
my trek to the SFI was even in my sights.  I even have the original
source code for "pgas" from 1993-ish tucked away somewhere.  "pgas",
for "process gas" was the working title before "Swarm", which Nelson
Minar (and perhaps others?) wrote when he was a REU at SFI before he
started on Swarm.

And of course, all these efforts were built upon earlier work, so
Swarm-as-we-know-it is certainly the result of a long lineage!

Btw, wearing my mailing list admin hat, I took the liberty of also
subscribing you with "gross at tiem.utk.edu" as well as "gross at
ecology.tiem.utk.edu", because the subscribed address and the From
address need to match exactly.  I disabled delivery from the second
address, you should see only one copy of each message, but you can now
post with either address, with mailing list admin approval.

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