What if in ABM's the agents didn't all follow the same rules, but made up their own. Would it still work?
Phil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Cc: Marcelo Chacon Reyes; Alicia Juarrero; Maria Isabel Neuman-Sega; Ania Gonxalez Mora; Fidel Martinez Alvarez; John Casti; Jose A. Betancourt; Eloy Ortiz Hernandez, Ph.D. Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking Nick: For a good introduction to "applied" complexity, perhaps your colleagues would like to look at Robert Axelrod's home page at the Univ. of Michigan <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/ and specifically the link "Recent Courses" in the left column. That will take them to his course of last fall, "Complexity <http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eaxe/PS793.pdf> Theory in the Social Sciences." That syllabus has good hyperlinks to his class assignments and assigned reading for the course, all of which I find to be quite good and accessible. -tom On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All, Colleagues at my former institution have asked me to provide a reading or other ...... representation .... that can be consumed in less than an hour that would give a sense of what it is "we" do in FRIAM, in Santa Fe, etc. Hopefully not words ABOUT it but an example OF it, if you see what I mean, but we might have to settle for words. If you had ONE SHOT at turning a colleague into a "complexitist," what would you do with him/her. Does FRIAM have some suggestions???? A related question in my mind: if agent-based-models come closest to capturing the essence of complexity thinking, WHY? Discuss. I will collect your responses and forward them on to Worcester. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ============================================================ 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 -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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