Re: The Weekly Pheromone Vol. 3, Issue 1

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Glen,

        many thanks for your appreciation. About the Journal, the first step is
that of looking around for a 'first class' publisher. Look for example at
the SNDE Journal (Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics), of MIT
Press, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/SNDE

        Alternatively, SFI could publish the Journal directly. 

        The 'second first step' is that of building up an Editorial Board. The
task of the EB is that of setting the quality of the Journal and to guide
the editorial strategy, also assuring a direct engagemnt in referees'
activity. I think that prof.Langton could launch an high level 'call for
participation' to the EB.

        Yours, Pietro



At 07.13 07/08/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>      I'm not completely sure that this is the right list for this
>>posting, but ... I'm following the reply-to of the Weekly Pheromone.
>>
>>      The news about the Swarm Development Program are wonderful. This is very
>>important for me, as I'm planning to start (in
>>September or in October) a permanent seminar on Agent Based Modeling
>>and Swarm, in my Department of Economics (Dipartimento di Scienze
>>economiche e finanziarie 'G.Prato'), in the University of
>>Turin. If other 'swarmers' in the same area would be interested in
>>cooperating, I'll be very happy.
>
>This is great news!
>
>>      Always following the news about the Swarm Development Program,
>>a idea: the suggestion of creating a Swarm Journal, in electronic
>>form, to publish short and long papers about ABM and Swarm:
>>theoretical discussions, preliminary draft, comparative works ...
>
>And this is a killer idea.  ["killer" is pseudo-surfer lingo from
>around the early 80's and means "very good" or "unbearably exciting"]
>
>I think a Swarm Developer's Journal or somesuch would be a good 
>place to begin establishing a real body of referencable work.
>One of the things we've been mulling over for awhile is where to
>publish papers about Swarm and what to put in them.  It's obvious
>to choose journals like ACM's TOMACS and TOPLAS; but, we've had
>people suggest publications like the journal of Computational and
>Mathematical Organization Theory.  And it's hard to tell what might
>be the proper venue.  Plus, we'd like to begin moving forward on 
>our ideas of publishing models using Swarm where the code is actually
>part of the model and should be available from the same place as
>the article that references it.  And it seems that the only natural
>way to achieve that is to start our own journal.
>
>Any ideas as to how to take the first step?
>
>glen
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