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| developer              = [[Swarm Development Group]]
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| genre                  = [[Scientific software]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
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| website                = {{URL|http://www.swarm.org}}
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| AsOf                   = October 2013
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'''Swarm''' is an open-source [[agent-based model]]ing simulation package, useful for simulating the interaction of [[Intelligent agent|agent]]s (social or biological) and their [[emergence|emergent]] collective behavior. 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,<ref>[http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm_main_page Swarm]</ref> it is available for free <ref>[http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Swarm:_software_main_page download Software main page downloads]</ref> and use, covered by the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>[https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License]</ref>

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.