[FRIAM] A billion agents

[Jochen Fromm]

Yes, but it does not make sense to simulate 
billions of agents just for their own sake.
I guess nothing interesting will happen until
each of the billion agents is unique and 
contributes something different to the same 
goal - which is only possible if the goal is 
clear.

If the goal is the simulation of a city -
is a simulation of a whole city with 250,000 
agents really different from a simulation 
with 2,500 agents ? The reproduction of a
whole system in a ratio of 1:1 would be a 
very poor model to understand it. And how 
would you specify 250,000 agents with different 
preferences ? 

-J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Standish
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:47 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A billion agents

Nobody knows until someone does the experiment. It is certainly
possible that something interesting will happen once enough agents are
simulated together. Right now it is a challenging task just to scale
the simulations up.