RE: [Swarmfest2005] review process

[Rick Riolo]

hi roger,
yes, i wrote to cappellini directly to ask if he
had anything he could send about his experiences with AnyLogic.
i'll pass it along if he does send it to me.
 - r

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On Mon, 2 May 2005, Burkhart Roger M wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 13:08:23 -0500
> From: Burkhart Roger M <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: SwarmFest 2005 Organizers list <address@hidden>
> To: SwarmFest 2005 Organizers list <address@hidden>
> Subject: RE: [Swarmfest2005] review process
>
> Pietro--
>
> I looked at the same three papers Rick looked at and I concur
> with his acceptance:
>
> > I took a look at
> >  cappellini
> >  lamieri
> >   coulon
> > and they all should be accepted.
>
> The Cappellini and Raimondi paper is of special interest to me
> because of their trying out the commercial agent tool AnyLogic
> along with the Swarm.  This tool has come up several times the
> last 5-6 months from people I've heard applying it to some real
> problems.  It's from XJ Technologies (http://www.xjtek.com/) out
> of St. Petersburg, Russia, who bills themselves as "Multi-paradigm
> simulation solutions" with particular mention of hybrids of
> system dynamics, discrete-event, and agent-based simulation.  It
> would be interesting to hear what their experience has been and
> the degree to which the AnyLogic agent simulation resembles Swarm
> and its successors.
>
> I looked at the Ietri & Lamieri paper and recommend its acceptance
> as well.  In addition to its look at economic networks and markets,
> it's noteworthy for its start toward a general-purpose simulation
> framework for this domain.  Building domain-specific frameworks for
> Swarm or other toolkits remains an uncompleted potential, even
> though it's been promoted for the economics field in particular in
> the "Economic Simulations using Swarm" books.
>
> With Steve's across-the board recommendation I think we have
> consensus that all these papers should be accepted.  In your
> review status document, you can remove the question mark on my
> recommendation of the two El Doker robot abstracts.  You can add
> my name to the Kaempf abstract which I also recommended already.
>
> With the deadline being today it looks like the program selection
> is complete.  At this point I'd suggest you just go ahead starting
> to line up the slots into a schedule over Monday and possibly
> Tuesday.  We probably should go ahead and publish a tentative
> program with abstracts to encourage more people to register and
> attend, through all the channels we can find.
>
> --Roger
>
>
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