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The Weekly Pheromone Volume II, Issue 1
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glen e. p. ropella |
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The Weekly Pheromone Volume II, Issue 1 |
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Tue, 11 Feb 1997 21:51:44 -0700 |
The Weekly Pheromone
Volume 2, Issue 1
February 11, 1997
The Pheromone will stand to inform users of the activities and
goals of the hive and user community. Contributions are accepted that
announce Swarm-related events or activities in any of the growing
Swarm colonies around the world. To contribute, send e-mail to
address@hidden The Pheromone is mailed out on Tuesday (or....
maybe Wednesday) if and only if there is information to be
disseminated.
Table of Contents
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I. Swarm 1.0.0 Released
A. SwarmDocs 1.0.1 released
B. Binaries for Solaris, HPUX, and Linux
C. Tutorial 1.0.1 released
II. SwarmFest '97 Update
A. Informal Itinerary
B. New List of Presentations
III. New or Revised Links on User Community Page
A. Barry's New SCL Model
B. Anasazi Village Formation Model
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I. Swarm 1.0.0 Released
In case y'all didn't notice.... We released version 1.0.0 on the
2nd of February. There were a few minor problems with the distribution
(meaning the tar.gz files), which should be OK now. And there has
been a little activity since then, as well.
A. SwarmDocs 1.0.1 released
There were a few problems with the documentation (missing colons,
broken hypertext links, general misinformation). They have been
upgraded and replaced on the web pages and the ftp site. (Note the
revision number. We're trying to use revision numbering to support
degradations between major releases, functionality changes, and bug
fixes by using 3 version numbers, respectively. Since these changes
to the documentation were primarily bug fixes, it gets slapped with a
1.0.1.)
B. Binaries for Solaris, HPUX, and Linux
The Solaris and Linux binaries have been rebuilt such that we think
they're independent from system installed Tcl/Tk, BLT, libtclobjc, and
Xpm. Of course, they still require X and GCC/Obj-C. Please check
them out and give us feedback on whether they work and what can be
done to make them easier to use. Also, we now have an HPUX binary.
We'd like to thank Doug Orr for building these and Rick Riolo, Ginger
Booth, and JJ Merelo for donating the resources with which these were
built.
C. Tutorial 1.0.1 released
Chris has fixed some bugs in the tutorial suite of applications.
It has been released separately from the rest of the swarmapps and
is not included in the swarmapps-1.0.0 package. You can find it
on the ftp site as:
ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/tutorial-1.0.1.tar.gz
and on the Release page of the Web pages:
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/release.html
II. SwarmFest '97 Update
A. Informal Itinerary
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PRELIMINARY ITINERARY FOR SWARMFEST
Saturday Feb. 15 - Homewood Suites Hotel (The Peralta Room)
6-9PM - Welcome Reception
Food, beer & wine, and registration.
Sunday Feb. 16 - Santa Fe Institute
8:30 AM - Lite breakfast, coffee and tea
9:00 AM - Morning session starts
10:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:00 AM - Second session
12:30 AM - Lunch
1:30 PM - Afternoon session starts
3:00 PM - Coffee Break
3:30 PM - Second afternoon session
5:30 PM - End of sessions for day 1
7:00 PM - Workshop dinner
Monday Feb. 17 - Santa Fe Institute
8:30 AM - Lite breakfast, coffee, and tea
9:00 AM - Morning session starts
10:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:00 AM - Second morning session
12:30 AM - Lunch
1:30 AM - Afternoon session starts
3:00 PM - Coffee Break
3:30 PM - Second afternoon session
5:00 PM - End of workshop
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B. New List of Presentations
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SwarmFest Presentations as of 2/11/97
The Gecko Project
Ginger Booth
Center for Computational Ecology
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
SCL: an Artificial Chemistry in Swarm
Barry McMullin
Swarm Project
Santa Fe Institute
ArborGames: A Swarm Tool for Studying Forest Dynamics
Melissa Savage
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles
Simulation of Multiagent Manufacturing System using swarm
Naga Krothapalli
Dept. of Industrial Engineering,
Florida State University
What do you do before/after SWARM?
Gerard Weisbuch
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris France
Individual Based Modelling of Aquatic Ecosystems
and
Adaptive Numerical Grids
Thomas Gudmunsson
Danish Hydraulic Institute
Neural and Genetic libraries for Swarm
J. J. Merelo
GeNeura Team,
University of Granada Spain
Three talks/discussions on applying Swarm in economics
1. Dynamics of competition in a differentiated product market:
Using Swarm to simulate market processes
2. An evolutionary model of Principal-Agent organizations:
Genetic Algorithms and the challenge of exploring
large non-linear parameter spaces in Swarm
3. Teaching Swarm to Social Scientists: Some thoughts on
a recent experiment.
Benedikt Stefansson
Center for Computable Economics and Department of Economics,
Department of Economics,
UCLA,
Weaver: Capturing Modelling assumptions in swarm
Matt Hare
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Aberdeen Scotland
Anchor Space for Recreational Boats
Paul Box
University of Florida
Modelling ecological and socio-economic networks CANCELLED
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental
Science and Technology, Duebendorf (EAWAG)
Towards Implementing a Model for Village Formation
in the Prehistoric Anasazi Southwest
Tim Kohler, Eric Carr, & Jim Kresl
Dep't. of Anthropology
Washington State University
Micro-UAV Simulation
Brian Haugh
IDA
Alexandria VA
The Drone Tool for batch simulation
and
Swarm for batch simulations in the social sciences
Ted Belding
University of Michigan
Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Ann Arbor MI
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III. New or Revised Links on User Community Page
A. Barry's New SCL Model
Barry McMullin has upgraded his Substrate-Catalyst-Link Artificial
Chemistry model to work with Swarm 1.0.0. This is SCL v0.05.
B. Anasazi Village Formation Model
We now have a version of the source code for the Anasazi Village
formation model being developed by Tim Kohler, Carla Van West, Jim
Kresl, and Eric Carr. This is one of the models that will be
discussed at SwarmFest.
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