[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking
Marcus G. Daniels
marcus at snoutfarm.com
Thu Apr 10 23:20:02 EDT 2008
Phil Henshaw wrote:
>
> What if in ABM’s the agents didn’t all follow the same rules, but made
> up their own. Would it still work?
>
Roughly, models with adaptive agents and no parameters are better than
models with non-adaptive agents and lots of unjustified parameters. Of
course at some level there are rules no matter what, or else it wouldn't
be a model that could be described and reproduced.
Marcus
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