| Developer(s) | Swarm Development Group |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 1997 |
| Stable release | 2.4.1
/ April 2009 |
| Written in | Objective-C, Java |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Scientific software |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www |
| As of | October 2013 |
Swarm is the name of an open-source agent-based modeling simulation package, useful for simulating the interaction of agents (social or biological) and their emergent collective behaviour. Swarm was initially developed at the Santa Fe Institute in the mid-1990s, and since 1999 has been maintained by the non-profit Swarm Development Group. Also known as the Swarm Simulation System,[1] it is available for free [2] and use, covered by the GNU General Public License.[3]
Early development work on Swarm was completed by Chris Langton (SFI), Roger Burkhart (John Deere), Nelson Minar (SFI), Manor Askenazi (SFI), Glen Ropella (SFI), Marcus Daniels (SFI), and Alex Lancaster (SFI). Since that time, many hundreds of people around the world have contributed to the continued open source development of the suite of Swarm ABM tools.