The Weekly Pheromone Volume II, Issue 1

[glen e. p. ropella]

                         The Weekly Pheromone
                          Volume 2, Issue 1
                          February 11, 1997


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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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