The Swarm Simulation System: A Toolkit for Building Multi- Agent Simulations

Swarm is a multi agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the swarm a collec tion of agents executing a schedule of actions Swarm supports hierarchical model ing approaches whereby agents can be composed of swarms of other agents in nested structures Swarm provides object oriented libraries of reusable components for build ing models and analyzing displaying and controlling experiments on those models Swarm is currently available as a beta version in full free source code form It requires the GNU C Compiler Unix and X Windows More information about Swarm can be obtained from our web pages http www santafe edu projects swarm Santa Fe Institute Hyde Park Rd Santa Fe NM nelson santafe edu Deere Company John Deere Road Moline IL roger ci deere com Santa Fe Institute Hyde Park Rd Santa Fe NM cgl santafe edu Santa Fe Institute Hyde Park Rd Santa Fe NM manor santafe edu Swarm has been developed at the Santa Fe Institute with the support of Grant No N from the O ce of Naval Research and Grant No N G from the Naval Research Laboratory both acting in cooperation with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Swarm bene ted from earlier support from The Carol O Donnell Foundation Mr and Mrs Michael Grantham and the National Science Foundation SFI also gratefully acknowledges invaluable support from Deere Company for this