[FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking

[Phil Henshaw]

Markus,

So I guess you're saying that if you were to make your models to be
consistent with nature, i.e. have agents that all develop their own
parameters as they go, then it couldn't be 'described' or 'reproduced'.
That sounds like a neat way to state the difficulty of using single
self-consistent ideas to represent a multiplicity of independently behaving
things. 

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:20 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking
> 
> 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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