[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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