RE: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in ecology ?

[Paul Box]

Alex:  I'm not contributing any reference here, since my favorites have 
already been 
mentioned.  I'm simply giving a plea (probably needless in your case):

Please post a summary of this list!  Also, many of us are curious as to how 
this plays out 
in your exams.

Suerte


>===== Original Message From "Marshall, James A R" <
address@hidden> =====
>Alex,
>  you could also take a look at Ezequiel Di Paolo's paper on ecological
>symmetry breaking where he compares an ABM and EBM of the same system and
>concludes that they give substantially different results due to their
>different representations of space.
>Di Paolo, E. (2000) Ecological Symmetry Breaking can Favour the Evolution of
>Altruism in an Action-response Game. Journal of Theoretical Biology 203, 2,
>pp. 135-152
>  Enjoy your viva,
>       James
>
>---
>Dr James A R Marshall
>Complex Systems Modelling Group (COSMIC)
>Department of Earth Science and Engineering
>Imperial College London
>Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7493
>Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 7444
>Container World Project - http://www.ese.ic.ac.uk/research/containerworld/
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Lancaster [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: 27 March 2003 00:48
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Swarm-Modelling] short reading list for IBMs/ABMs in
>ecology?
>
>
>>>>> "LG" == Lou Gross writes:
>
>LG> Alex, On the specific topic you mentioned (compare and constrast
>LG> ABM/IBM to classical models), I suggest you might include the
>LG> paper by Lorenz Fahse, Christian Wissel, and Volker Grimm
>LG> "Reconciling classical and individual-based approaches in
>LG> theoretical population ecology: a protocol for extracting
>LG> population parameters from individual-based models" published in
>LG> American Naturalist 152:838-852 (Dec. 1998) available through
>LG> Jstor.  Volker Grimm and colleagues have published alot more on
>LG> this topic since then, but that paper lays out a good framework
>LG> for the topic you mentioned. Note that Eli Meir has been working
>LG> on a whole book on this topic as well, based around what he has
>LG> learned from developing Ecobeaker - I don't think the book is out
>LG> yet though.
>
>Hi Lou,
>
>Thanks for you suggestions.  The Volker Grimm paper is certainly high
>on the citation lists!
>
>LG> Regarding what pre-dated Swarm, you should realize that Swarm has
>LG> been around in one form or another for a long time - I first saw a
>LG> demo of it when we invited Dave Hiebeler here for a visit in
>LG> mid-1994, at which time it was still at such a stage that we
>LG> decided for the ATLSS project to develop our own C++ code.  Good
>LG> luck preparing for the exams!
>
>Yes I remember myself, having stumbled across the early papers on
>Swarm (e.g. describing the Hiebler prototype) sometime in 1994 before
>my trek to the SFI was even in my sights.  I even have the original
>source code for "pgas" from 1993-ish tucked away somewhere.  "pgas",
>for "process gas" was the working title before "Swarm", which Nelson
>Minar (and perhaps others?) wrote when he was a REU at SFI before he
>started on Swarm.
>
>And of course, all these efforts were built upon earlier work, so
>Swarm-as-we-know-it is certainly the result of a long lineage!
>
>Btw, wearing my mailing list admin hat, I took the liberty of also
>subscribing you with "gross at tiem.utk.edu" as well as "gross at
>ecology.tiem.utk.edu", because the subscribed address and the From
>address need to match exactly.  I disabled delivery from the second
>address, you should see only one copy of each message, but you can now
>post with either address, with mailing list admin approval.
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