Re: Swarm Journal

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 09:51 PM 8/8/97 +0200, you wrote:
>       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
>

I agree with you, Pietro, that perhaps two publications would be useful.
And I see no reason why the 'serious' one couldn't be wholly web-based,
even if it is peer-reviewed. Examples already exist.

As for the redhat pointer, no sooner did you post your message than they
re-organized their web site. The Linux gazette page is now found at
<http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/lg>.

Ciao,
and greetings to our friends in Trento,

Sven Thommesen

>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
>>
>>------------------
>>Benedikt Stefansson                 address@hidden
>>Department of Economics, UCLA       Fax. (310) 825-9528
>>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477          Tel. (310) 825-1777
>>
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