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SwarmFest 2007 Schedule

Date Time Event Presenter Location
Wednesday, 11 July 3:00 to
11:00 PM
University Center check-in (for those staying at the UC)   University Center, 525 S. State (corner of State and Congress Parkway)
Thursday, 12 July 8:30 AM NetLogo tutorial   CTI Center, 243 S. Wabash (corner of Wabash and Jackson, door on Wabash), 8th floor, room 819
8:30 AM Repast tutorial   CTI Center, 8th floor, room 801
4:00-6:00 PM Registration   DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson (corner of Jackson and State), 11th floor
3:00 to
11:00 PM
University Center check-in   University Center, 525 S. State
5:00-9:00 PM Opening reception   DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson, 11th floor (and rooftop deck)
Friday,
13 July
8:00 AM Registration   CTI Center, 243 S. Wabash (corner of Wabash and Jackson, door on Wabash), 9th floor. Presentations will be in room 924.
9:00 AM Welcome  
9:15 AM Featured presentation: "What's New in NetLogo" Seth Tisue, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University
10:00 AM Toward an Agent-Based Model of Atherosclerotic Plaque Development: Leukocyte Trafficking in the Microvasculature Bryan Thorne, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
10:30 AM Break  
10:45 AM Iterative Automated Named Entity Recognition to Bootstrap Biomedical Lexicon Generation Gary An, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
11:15 AM Patterns in Modeling: A Case Study on Applying Techniques from Pattern Oriented Modeling and Design Patterns to Simulation Design Timothy Schoenharl, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
11:45 AM Software Product Lines for Developing NASA Swarm-based Systems Christopher Rouff, Advanced Technology Laboratories, Lockheed Martin
12:15 PM Lunch   (on your own)
1:30 PM Dynamics of Electoral Behaviour Alex Perez, Trinity College Dublin CTI Center, 243 S. Wabash (corner of Wabash and Jackson, door on Wabash), 9th floor, room 924
2:00 PM Extract Agent-based Model from Social Communication Network Hung-Ching (Justin) Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:30 PM Mobilization, Voting, and Policy:  An Agent-Based Model of the Political Process  Karen May, School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University
3:00 PM Break  
3:15 PM MATer: Territorial Self-Organization Model Rui Lopes, Evolutionary and Complex Systems Group, CISUC, Portugal
3:45 PM Xholon -- An ABM tool based on "Monkey Topology" Ken Webb, Xholon and Cellontro open source projects, Primordion
4:15 PM Adaptive Ecological Network Dynamics James J. Anderson, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington
4:35 PM Intermediate scales of organization in collective behavior: the role of local neighborhoods and information dispersion on emergent group dynamics Bertrand Lemasson, Utah State University and University of Washington
4:55 PM State-based Predictive Theory for Modeling Adaptive Behavior of Animals (and People?) Steve Railsback, Lang Railsback & Assoc., and Humboldt State Univ.
6:00-9:00 PM Social hour, banquet, and keynote presentation: "The Making of a Catastrophe: How Agent-Based Modeling is Helping Archaeologists Unravel the Last Century of Farming Occupation in the Northern US Southwest" Tim Kohler, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, and Santa Fe Institute The Berghoff, 17 W. Adams (between State and Dearborn), Lower Level room
Saturday,
14 July
9:00 AM Featured presentation: "Swarming to a Spot: Tight Integration with the Mac OSX Platform" Scott Christley, University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science and Engineering CTI Center, 9th floor, room 924
9:45 AM Bees' approach simulation for the topology management in the mobile ad hoc network using the NetLogo Simulator Salim Bitam, University of Notre Dame's Department of Computer Science and Engineering
10:15 AM Break  
10:30 AM Multi-agent Communication Disorders: Dynamic Breeding Networks in Genetic Algorithms Forrest Sondahl, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-based Modeling, Northwestern University
11:00 AM An Agent-Based Simulation For Emergency Response Management Timothy Schoenharl, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
11:30 AM Swarm Art Paulo Urbano, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
12:00 PM Lunch   (on your own)
1:00 PM Featured presentation: "Spreading the Word: Communicating the Utility of Agent-based Modeling to the Larger World" Michael North, Argonne National Lab's Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation CTI Center, 9th floor, room 924
1:45 PM Market Emergence and Learning Diego Corredor, Department of Economics, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
2:15 PM Evolving Biomedical Ontologies in "Knowledge-Ecologies": A Proposal for an Agent Based Approach Gary An, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2:45 PM A Swarm ontology for complex systems modeling Roger Burkhart, Deere & Company
3:15 PM Wrap-up, discussion of future development, SwarmFest awards.  

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