Would it be more interesting to ask - What if in second order ABM's the agents could differentiate meta-rules (as patterns) from rules? Could they then apply them using evolutionary meta-genetics as a means serving as abstraction? Would this work in n^m-order ABM's?
Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:20 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The quintessence of complexity thinking > > Phil Henshaw wrote: > > > > What if in ABM's the agents didn't all follow the same > rules, but made > > up their own. Would it still work? > > > Roughly, models with adaptive agents and no parameters are > better than models with non-adaptive agents and lots of > unjustified parameters. Of course at some level there are > rules no matter what, or else it wouldn't be a model that > could be described and reproduced. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > 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 > ============================================================ 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
