[FRIAM] The unreasonable Effectiveness of ABMs in Complex Systems

[Jochen Fromm]

If physics is so successfully described by mathematics 
because the physical world is mathematical, and nearly
isomorphic to a mathematical structure, then maybe 
complex systems are so successfully described by ABMs 
because their are isomorphic to them, too. Complex systems, 
especially social ones, are "agent-oriented". 
What do you think ?

-J.
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