Re: [FRIAM] Netflix corporate "values"

P.S. It's not all wonderful. It sounds like there may be a lot of pressure to be a "superstar." -- Russ On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: > Here's a 128 (!) slide > presentation

[FRIAM] Netflix corporate "values"

Here's a 128 (!) slide presentation of Netflix corporate value -- especially with respect to employees. It's worth looking at when thinking about how organizations might run themselves. As the pre

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

Has anybody just tried to design this application the old-fashioned way; i.e., develop a set of requirements that - define the interactions between the components of the system, - identify (clearly, no vagueness allowed) the desired results from running the simulation, - identify (clea

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:46:26PM -0500, Roger Critchlow wrote: > I don't think you'll find this because it implies programming a higher > purpose and allowing the agents to jump the rails, as it were, and start > negotiating their way through the combinatorics of alternative networks. > Similarly

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

Roger Critchlow wrote: It's not obvious how to program the same capabilities without the teaching the agents how to apply the same common sense and expert senses which the programmer uses to frame a fixed solution space. Framing a fixed solution space is tricky! Take a data set with lots of po

[FRIAM] The Best of All Possible Worlds

All -- Book recommendation: "The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny" by Ivar Ekeland. I've liked almost all of what Ekeland has written (particularly, "Mathematics and the Unexpected") . . . this one talks about a variety of issues including teleology/causality, lea

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

I don't think you'll find this because it implies programming a higher purpose and allowing the agents to jump the rails, as it were, and start negotiating their way through the combinatorics of alternative networks. Similarly, you won't find models in which agents invent new inputs to monitor, new

[FRIAM] Why we evolved to ask "why" questions

Hi all, I hope you don't think of this as an intrusion, but I just finished re-editing a blog piece"why" questions. I like it a lot, and invite you to look at it. -- Russ FRIAM A

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

Thus spake Russ Abbott circa 09-08-28 07:26 AM: > My question was simpler than that. Is there work on stocks and flows models > in which the network structure is not static? I suspect you won't find a toolkit that does this because the diagrams are (usually?) animated via a system of differential

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

Netlogo includes a stocks and flows component (system dynamics modeler) . I don't believe the network of stocks and flows is reconfigurable at runtime though it does have a basic integration with the agent- based modeling side of

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

The other day I described a framework (service-oriented agent-based modeling) that I thought would suit the kinds of M&S I want to do. As far as I know there isn't any literature on this sort of modeling paradigm. But if a re-interpretation of stocks and flows modeling can be understood in that lig

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

Why are you asking this? Do you want to build an ABM of a system that models stock transactions, or write a paper about how do do so, of just find a place for this class of simulation that fits your worldview? --Doug On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Russ Abbott wrote: > My question was simpler

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

My question was simpler than that. Is there work on stocks and flows models in which the network structure is not static? -- Russ On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > All, > > I have tried to stay out of this discussion because I know even

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

All, I have tried to stay out of this discussion because I know even less about this subject than usual, if such a thing is possible. But . Russ Abbott wrote: In a service-oriented agent-based model the agents have the ability to reconfigure themselves dynamically and perhaps even to add

Re: [FRIAM] Agents, stocks, and flows

In a discussion with a colleague today we talked briefly about stocks and flows networks. It struck me that a stocks and flows model is a limited sort of service-oriented agent-based model. In a service-oriented agent-based model, agents accept inputs and produce outputs -- the simplest version be