Nelson Minar
Roger Burkhart
Chris Langton
Manor Askenazi
http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/
June 21, 1996
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 collection of agents executing a schedule of actions.
Swarm supports hierarchical modeling approaches whereby agents can be
composed of swarms of other agents in nested structures. Swarm
provides object oriented libraries of reusable components for building
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/.