RE: [Swarmfest2005] Fwd: review

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Roger,

        my replies are below,

        yours, Pietro

At 16.53 28/04/2005, you wrote:
> Pietro--
>
> In your document summarizing the paper review status, I don't
> find the paper by Dal Forno and Merlone, "Selecting team members:
> a computational model for studying network dynamics."  It's a
> 28-page paper looking at behavioral components that drive the
> formation or cohesion of project teams, which is a good
> organizational topic, includes a computational model to look at
> multiple behavioral dimensions, and IMO should be accepted.

        I support your opinion and sign myself for acceptance.

        You have fixed a terrible error. I've copied the file on line and 
missed to copy it in my local folder, so for me it was completely lost. On 
the contrary, I appreciate the paper.

        To excuse my error I've to tell you that I'm in a terrible 
overcharged working period and I've reduced my sleeping time to three ours 
per day ...



> Our general policy for SwarmFest acceptance has been to accept any
> topic that looks at some kind of interesting question or issue by
> means of an agent model of some kind.  We try to apply the spirit of
> crossing all conventional disciplinary barriers, since this is the
> uniqueness of SwarmFest.  Accordingly, if a paper or abstract topic
> looks coherent at all, and adds to the variety of topics to be
> included, our default has usually been to accept a paper, and fit
> them into as many slots as we can fit.  This has sometimes forced
> us into speaker slots as short as 20 minutes, which is far from
> ideal, but may be less of a constraint this year.  Even so,
> allowing for 30 minute speaker slots, the current total of 16
> submitted papers, plus two new abstracts just proposed, plus a
> keynote and any opening/closing slots, already could spill over
> past one day if we don't find submissions that offer clear criteria
> for rejection.  We could ask that some of them be presented only
> as posters, but if there's time available in the schedule there's
> no reason they couldn't also be presented, perhaps in shorter time
> slots.

        I agree completely.



> I haven't had time to participate in paper review up-to-now, but the
> recent ones submitted or mentioned make me wish I could arrange to
> attend this year.

        Is that true? Hurrah!!!


> The abstract by Andreas Kaempf, "Teaching Ants to
> Drive: An agent-based model of the UK automobile market," just
> submitted under the extended deadline, would definitely be
> interesting to me, dealing with agent models for commercial product
> markets, and the value of agent-based methods vs. system dynamics.
> The two topics just sketched by El Doker, a "UAV swarm" and "A
> Swarm of ROBOSAPIEN bipedal robot to fight fires," combine agents
> with engineering of real physical systems, and he even offers to
> distribute a tool and bring real robots with them (which could
> provide a nice break in the routine with live demos).  If he can
> submit a couple actual abstracts, it would be worth including both,
> perhaps with the graduate thesis on the UAV swarm as a poster.

        I agree!


> Tyler Freeman's abstract, "From the ground up: are farmers cultivating
> the seeds of change," is the one that probably has the most direct
> job-related interest to me, to understand changing roles in agriculture.
> Paul already included it in talks he'd like to hear, and while I was
> writing this message I see I've crossed messages with further reviews
> by Rick and Steve, but these I've looked at so far meet the basic
> standard we've generally applied.  If I get a chance by this weekend
> I'll try to help look at remaining papers we haven't had any feedback
> on yet.

        OK.


> Once we have a program perhaps we can twist arms as Paul suggests,
> and keep selling through other channels to try to get as many as
> possible to register and attend.

        Wonderful.



> --Roger
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Pietro Terna
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:28 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [Swarmfest2005] Fwd: review
>
>          Sorrym I missed the address of the papers:
>
>          http://eco83.econ.unito.it/terna/swarmfest2005papers/
>
>          Pietro
>
> >Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:56:47 +0200
> >To: swarmfest2005
> >From: Pietro Terna <address@hidden>
> >Subject: review
> >
> >         Hi all,
> >
> >         can you give me some advice on the unvaluated papers.
> >
> >         The situation is represented by the attached file. I'd like to
> be
> > the last in the reviewing process.
> >
> >         Yours, Pietro
> >
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