Carl's comments seem to clarify much in my rather ignorant mind. As a relative newcomer to complexity theory, it seems to me that the great advantage of complexity modeling and ABMs is that they provide new tools to examine processes. tools that are quicker and more elegant than statistics and other research methodology Systematics, e.g. Odum's work, has been around for a while, but being able to establish multi-layered links and analysis between inter and intra-disciplinary research and data easily is a great advantage. It would be interesting to develop ABMs based on the principles of bio-mimicry. Paul Paryski.
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