Re: [FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling

2006-08-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
that are foolish in both the short term and the long term. That's what makes biography and history infinitely more complicated and less predictable than the courses of chemical reactions... -J. From: Robert Cordingley Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling

[FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling of a Blowback - How Terrorists are made

2006-08-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
If the USA delivers weapons and military knowledge to autonomous parties in instable countries like Israel, Afghanistan and the former Iraq and even trains people there to fight, it is of course not surprising at all (perhaps even unavoidable) that eventually these weapons will be used for an

Re: [FRIAM] Agent-Based Modelling of a Blowback - How Terrorists are made

2006-08-08 Thread mgd
Quoting Frank Wimberly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What about the following issue: I suspect that a simulation (agent-based or otherwise) of the stock market (e.g. the DJIA) could be developed which is statistically indistinguishable from the real thing. That is, the moments, fat tails, etc. would