Swarm is a general purpose simulation package for the investigation of concurrent, distributed systems: systems in which hundreds or thousands of autonomous agents interact with one another and with a dynamically changing environment. Swarm provides general purpose utilities for designing, implementing, running, and analyzing such multi-agent systems.
 

The Swarm computational architecture was developed over the past four years under Dr. Langton's direction at the Santa Fe Institute. Business Week magazine reported in a June, 1997, issue on Information Technology that the Swarm technology was the "best thing to emerge from the Santa Fe Institute."
 

Swarm's extensibility and composability provide for an ideal platform in which to implement models of systems that are hard to specify, dynamic, hierarchical, and non-homogenous. And they allow the user to produce models that can be used to look into potential future configurations of systems that are typically managed through heuristics or intuition, due to their complex nature.

Furthermore, Swarm is a freely available package licensed under the Library GNU Public License (LGPL) and is attainable from the Santa Fe Institute WWW site. It is maintained and supported by the Swarm Project at the SFI and is completely independent from the Swarm Corporation. It is quickly becoming a standard in academia and science for modeling complex adaptive systems. A Link to the Swarm Project at SFI and the entire Swarm community of users is available via our Links page.

Swarm is, for SwarmCorp, very valuable inspiration for the systems we build. We use it as one of the tools with which to fulfill clients' needs for custom designed multi-agent simulations and as a computational point of view from which to design our products.
 

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