International Swarmfest–Day 3

Swarmfest 2010 is being held at the Santa Fe Complex from Sunday, June 20, to Tuesday, June 22.

Swamfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group, and one of the oldest communities involved in the development and propagation of agent-based modeling.

Swarmfest has traditionally involved a mix of both tool users and tool developers, drawn from many domains of expertise. These have included, in the past, computer scientists, software engineers, biomedical researchers, ecologists, economists, political scientists, social scientists, resource management specialists, and evolutionary biologists.

Swarmfest represents a low-key environment for researchers to explore new ideas and approaches, and benefit from a multi-disciplinary environment. This year Swarmfest will return to its roots, both geographically in Santa Fe, and programmatically by providing a workshop/forum-oriented conference structure.

This year the event will continue to examine the range of systems being modeled with agent-based modeling, with the possibility of providing some guidance as to the suitability of the various types of agent-based models for particular types of modeling goals.

It will also encourage sharing of experiences in how to gain the acceptance of agent-based modeling within the research community and cover strategies where cross-domain examples/analogies can aid in that process.

The event will also identify future avenues for agent-based research, including the “next” generation of tools, platforms and application.

Registration required. For details, visit Swarmfest 2010.