The Swarm Development Group (SDG) is an American non-profit organization to advance the development of complex adaptive system-oriented agent-based modeling (ABM) tools initiated at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US.
The role of the Swarm Development Group has expanded to include the co-ordination of a long-running conference SwarmFest[1] during May, June, or July each summer – typically hosted by a different research university each year.
Typically, a wide range of academic, corporate, and government organizations are represented at SwarmFest.
SwarmFest 2007 was held at DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems,[3] in Chicago.
SwarmFest 2008 was held at Northwestern Memorial Hospital/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.