[Fwd: Re: SwarmFest 2002 publication]

[M Lang / S Railsback]

I am forwarding this message that resulted from SwarmFest.

Apparently, someone needs to build a library of ant systems code for
Swarm (a whole technology I was not aware of until SwarmFest).

Steve

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: SwarmFest 2002 publication
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:11:17 +0100
From: Vitorino Ramos <address@hidden>
To: M Lang / S Railsback <address@hidden>, address@hidden
References: <address@hidden>

At 13:56 08-04-2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Vitorino Ramos wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > Recently I have discovered some interesting papers at your WWW page,
> > http://www.cbr.washington.edu/swarmfest/ .
> > I would like to know if you have any collection published in proceedings
> > which I would like to buy.
>
>Hi Vitorino-
>
>It does not look like we are going to collect and publish the
>proceedings of this year's SwarmFest. I suggest you contact the authors
>of any papers you are interested in, and they may be able to send you
>papers or copies of their presentation slides. If you need any help
>locating people, please let me know.
>
>Steve Railsback
>
>(If you really want to buy some proceedings, look here:
>http://weasel.cnrs.humboldt.edu/~simsys/Products.html )
>

Dear Steve:

First of all let me thank you for your quick answer. I was interested in 
some papers, namely the one by Raj Divakaran, since his recent March 02 
work (SwarmFest 2002 Conf.: 
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/swarmfest/program.html#Divakaran) is 
connected with one of my key research areas (Ant Systems in Pattern 
Recognition & Data Mining). In fact he makes a citation of one of my
past 
works at his abstract. Anyway, I will contact him using the email adress 
present at the SwarmFest 02. For other works I will proceed the same
way. 
Thanks also for the web reference you gave me. It's very interesting. I 
have also check some old PDFs about your work with fish and ecologies 
(present at SWARM.org), which somehow interests me also. I am
responsible 
for a class of "Natural Computation Paradigms" (aLife, Evolutionary
Prog., 
Neural and Cognitive Computing, Artificial Imune Systems, etc) for
Natural 
Resource Management graduate students, and I am looking a lot for papers 
with examples and applications in the area. I will definetely present
your 
work there in one of these days. Although I do not use SWARM software in
my 
codes (even if I am aware of it, or at least till now), I take this
chance 
to send you a couple of links related to my recent research work in Ant 
Systems and Swarm Intelligence, which could be (possibly !?) interesting 
for SWARM people (PDFs available) (I am also sending a copy of this
email 
to the SDG group):

ANT SYSTEMS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION AND PERCEPTION (The one cited by
Raj): 
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html

ANT SYSTEMS IN ART & ARCHITECTURE:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_43.html
SWARM PAINTINGS by Leonel Moura:
http://www.lxxl.pt/aswarm/aswarm.html

ANT SYSTEMS IN EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS, DIGITAL IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND 
CLUSTERING:
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_42.html

The last one his co-authored with Juan J Merelo (JJ), one of the first 
SWARM developers at Santa Fe Inst. (see People's page at sawrm.org. 
http://www.swarm.org/intro-people.html). Ok, many thanks for your time
and 
kind help.

Yours truly, Vitorino


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   Vitorino Ramos
   http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos


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