Swarm, newbie intro 8)

[Catherine Dibble]

Ah, not much of an intro, but also "hi!."  I was at CSSS'95 and have
been quietly (mostly) lurking here since last winter.  I'm using Swarm
to study human settlement patterns, at one level, but I'm also
interested in using Swarm to study, well, how to use Swarm rigorously.
There are certainly important computer science challenges, but I'm
fascinated by the epistemological questions related to this
laboratory.  My Swarm project is summarized in a short extended
abstract at:  http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~cath/geocomp.html

Catherine

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