[FRIAM] JASSS (and despair)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Robert Holmes wrote:
> I dunno, after our discussions about the nature of explanation, 
> reading JASSS left me thoroughly depressed. Want to guess how many 
> papers compared their simulation results with real historic data?
I don't see a problem because their study is of _artificial_ 
societies.   The development of math and methods for study of a subclass 
of abstract processes...