Re: Swarm Journal

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Benedikt,

        my idea also is that of evangelizing Swarm & Agent-Based Modeling; I 
think
that if the Academy will accept the new way of making experiments as a
powerful tool to understand non linearity and interaction in (social)
sciences, people will get academic credit in their specific fields also
from publishing their ABM models. Sure, these are opinions of a minority of
researchers, but it is a cool minority (I think about our friends in
Trento, for example).

        May be, the useful pubblications would be two: a more informal Swarm
Gazette (as Linux Gazette, i.e. at
http://www.redhat.com/lg/gazette_toc.html) and a more academic Swarm Journal.

        May be, may be, this is a 'summer night dream'!

        Yours, Pietro

At 17.55 07/08/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Pietro,
>
>I think the idea about a Swarm Journal is very cool. I envision
>something along the lines of the Mathematica Journal, i.e. a mixture of
>3-4 short articles on new classes, tools and tricks and 2-3 papers on
>actual models. This would be exclusively published on the web (with
>mirrors in Europe, Asia and the US) maybe 4-6 times a year.
>
>Although there should probably be some review process, perhaps it would
>be best to aim for something scientifically informal but technically and
>graphically well designed - since the focus would be on applications of
>the Swarm platform and people would not get much academic credit in
>their specific fields from publishing in this venue anyway.
>
>In my mind the point should be to experiment with electronic publishing
>of agent based simulations (i.e. to find better ways to present the
>model & fine grained data along with the results) and to evangelize
>Swarm & Agent-Based Modeling. 
>
>Why don't we start collecting names of people who would like to submit
>papers and/or work on editing and putting out the first "proof of
>concept" issue? 
>
>Regards,
>-Benedikt
>
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