On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> Can't be complexity scientists - the math is too hard. Show your
> average
> ABMer a partial differential equation and he'd run a mile.
> Robert
I have to agree. The pendulum really needs to swing back again. The
lack of formalism within the ABM world is, in my mind, indicative of a
broader issue: we tend to specialize too much.
ABMers are great at their domain, Mathematicians at theirs. Neither
are broad enough to grok their counterparts.
We've seen this in a recent redfish project: the scope is quite wide,
including google maps GIS using Javascript, the django webapp
framework, google app engine datastore and "cloud" deployment system,
SVN code management, XHTML/CSS, and AJAX. Whew!
We'd like to include "agency" as well, so I guess its on the ABM side
of the equation. But I suspect mathematics will have to sneak in too,
at least Statistics/Bayesian inference.
On the top of that mountain, traditional ABM seems a bit amateur.
-- Owen
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