Not sure what happened to my last post to try to clarify the question, but another thought occurred to me this AM
Maybe a way to look at an epidemic from the active management point of view, and an epidemic as an autonomous agent itself, is to consider it as exploiting the passive resource of infection pathways in a community. Any particular epidemic may be using the familiar ones, or some unfamiliar ones. It may discover new ones in the course of events. The question is how to use models to help people a) identify the interruptible links in the pathways an epidemic is exploiting?, and b) how to tell when the epidemic has changed to exploit some new unseen pathway that a new intervention strategy will be needed for? -- Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com Re: [FRIAM] One of my projects Douglas Roberts Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:05:26 -0800 Phil, I did read your question, repeated below: Cool, do you include any comparative natural system component? Perhaps working with better ways to identify system structures in natural systems and early signs of when they are inventing new ones would be helpful in developing tests for models that approximate the complexity of nature. However, I found it to be sufficiently ambiguous that I had absolutely no idea what was being asked, and thus found myself at a complete loss for a response. -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
