And lets not overlook the brewing dogfight on prediction:
- Contra Epstein, Good Explanations Predict (our own Nick Thompson)
- Not All Explanations Predict Satisfactorily, and Not All Good
Predictions Explain
Also..cast your vote for pdf vs html for paper formats!
Great stuff.
-- Owen
On Jan 31, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
Amongst the usual plethora of validation-by-kinda-looks-like papers
in this
month's JASSS is a paper that looks like it might be useful:
*"**Techniques
to Understand Computer Simulations: Markov Chain Analysis"*
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/1/6.html. The paper includes the
source
code for the 10 "classic" ABMs that they consider.
Robert
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