Extension of Call for Participation for Swarmfest 2009 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico June 28-30, 2009
Abstract Deadline now is May 8, 2009, with decision responses back by
May 11, 2009.
Swamfest is the annual meeting of the Swarm Development Group (SDG),
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.
One of the focus areas this year is to examine the range of systems
being modeled with ABM, and to start to develop a "taxonomy of complex
systems," with the possibility of providing some guidance as to
the suitability of the various types of agent-based models for
particular types of modeling go als.
We will also try to identify future avenues for ABM research,
including the "next" generation of ABM tools, platforms and application.
Please check out the information
at http://www.swarm.org/index.php/Main_Page for abstract submission,
registration and lodging.
Hope to see you in June!
Sincerely,
Gary An
President, Swarm Development Group
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