Fwd: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2)
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The "how to visualize ABMs" paper is particularly interesting
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html
-- Robert ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[hidden email]> Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:15 AM Subject: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2) To: [hidden email] The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 12 on 31-Mar-2009. JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It is freely available, with no subscription. ================= In this issue, we have 9 reviews of recent books related to social simulation and complexity, as well as articles on design guidelines for ABM visualisation, a survey of ABM platforms, a proposal for a new way of modelling social networks, and models of consensus and occupational inheritance in China. =============================================================== Peer-reviewed Articles =============================================================== How Groups Can Foster Consensus: The Case of Local Cultures by Patrick Groeber, Frank Schweitzer and Kerstin Press <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/4.html> Agent-Based Simulation on Women's Role in a Family Line on Civil Service Examination in Chinese History by Chao Yang, Setsuya Kurahashi, Keiko Kurahashi, Isao Ono and Takao Terano <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/5.html> Social Circles: A Simple Structure for Agent-Based Social Network Models by Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/3.html> Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization by Daniel Kornhauser, Uri Wilensky and William Rand <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html> =============================================================== Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch) =============================================================== Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Various Agent Based Modeling Platforms by Cynthia Nikolai and Gregory Madey <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/2.html> =============================================================== Book Reviews (Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni) =============================================================== Marco Castellani reviews: Reason and Rationality by Elster, Jon <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castellani.html> Gennaro Di Tosto reviews: Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means to Be Human by Friedenberg, Jay <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/di_tosto.html> Cristiano Castelfranchi reviews: Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Glimcher Paul W., Camerer Colin, Poldrack Russell, Fehr Ernst (Eds.) <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castelfranchi.html> Károly Takács reviews: Social and Economic Networks by Jackson, Matthew O. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/tak_aacute_cs.html> Domenico Delli Gatti reviews: Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy by Lim, G. C. and McNelis, Paul D. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/delli_gatti.html> Julie Dugdale reviews: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books) by Pentland,(Sandy) Alex <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/dugdale.html> Francesca Giardini reviews: Computable Models of the Law (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Casanovas Pompeu, Sartor Giovanni, Casellas Núria, Rubino Rossella (Eds.) <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/giardini.html> Blake LeBaron reviews: Agent-Based Modeling: the Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock Market Model Revisited (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) by Ehrentreich, Norman <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/lebaron.html> Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias reviews: Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems: V. 5 (Springer Series on Agent Based Social Systems) by Terano Takao, Kita Hajime, Takahashi Shingo, Deguchi Hiroshi (Eds.) <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/hern_aacute_ndez-iglesias.html> =============================================================== The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page: <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk>. The next issue will be published at the end of June 2009. Submissions are welcome: see <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html> If you would like to assist in refereeing submissions to JASSS, go to http://www.epress.ac.uk/JASSS/webforms/new_referee.php ____________________________________________________________________________ JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/> Editor: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK Forum Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany Review Editor: Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy ________________________________________________________________________ Sent from the EPRESS journal management system, http://www.epress.ac.uk ============================================================ 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 |
Re: Fwd: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2)
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Thanks, Robert.
This part of the paper caused my bullshit detector to go off:
Without taking the into account the particular phenomenon being modeled, I strongly suspect that the visualizations developed using this approach will produce, no doubt, pretty colored groupings of splotches that unfortunately convey little useful information about the actual problem domain. I'd be really curious to see what kind of results this viz design approach would produce for an ABM that modeled the transmission of an infectious disease with several distinct intermediate progression states in a city with, say 9 million mobile inhabitants. What insights would the viz give regarding contact patterns, super spreaders, demographic effects, possible intervention strategies? Also, Figure 13 made me want to start drinking early today. Don't get me wrong: I like pretty colored splotches as much as the next guy; I'd just prefer that my viz apps tell me something useful about my particular application. I give the paper a 3.4 on the ten scale. --Doug On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> wrote: The "how to visualize ABMs" paper is particularly interesting ============================================================ 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 |
Re: Fwd: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2)
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Tap, tap. Is this thing on?
I can't *believe*, what with the FRIAM list being what it is, that I am the only one to comment on the paper Robert pointed out. This paper pushes (I thought) all of the FRIAM hot buttons: complexity, visualization, ABMs, methodology. I've come to realize that I'm not the only opinionated one around here. Was the paper so bad that I am the only one who nibbled? Or was it so good that I committed a horrible faux pas by speaking ill of it? Or, did Steve finally ban me from the list for all the horrible tuber puns? --Doug On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote: Thanks, Robert. -- Doug Roberts [hidden email] [hidden email] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell ============================================================ 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 |
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Douglas Roberts wrote:
> > Don't get me wrong: I like pretty colored splotches as much as > the next guy; I'd just prefer that my viz apps tell me something > useful about my particular application. > Sure, building useful instruments is not just an exercise in visual design. Domain and model semantics also matter, and thus it's ultimately the responsibility of the modeler (as opposed to, say, toolkit developers) to design instruments to measure and transform data in appropriate ways. That's not to say that visual design principles don't matter, though. ============================================================ 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 |
Re: Fwd: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(2)
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I spend a lot of time on visualization programming in NetLogo and I'm
also a usability wonk, so I was interested in the article, and enjoyed it. I had never thought about deliberately avoiding optical illusion side-effects. I agree that good vis design can evoke information, and that bad vis design can obscure it. However, many of the bigger "real" models I've worked on defined any run-time vis at all--the real meat was in the gathered data. ~~James On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote: > Tap, tap. Is this thing on? > > I can't *believe*, what with the FRIAM list being what it is, that I am the > only one to comment on the paper Robert pointed out. > > This paper pushes (I thought) all of the FRIAM hot buttons: complexity, > visualization, ABMs, methodology. I've come to realize that I'm not the > only opinionated one around here. Was the paper so bad that I am the only > one who nibbled? > > Or was it so good that I committed a horrible faux pas by speaking ill of > it? > > Or, did Steve finally ban me from the list for all the horrible tuber puns? > > --Doug > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks, Robert. >> >> This part of the paper caused my bullshit detector to go off: >> >> 4.4 The classification of models is purely visual. It does not take into >> account the particular phenomenon being explored by the model. In other >> words, we did not consider the subject area or discipline of the model. Of >> course, some visualizations in the same category share the same type of >> phenomenon, but it is not unusual to find unrelated phenomena appearing in >> the same category. This classification is not meant to be a rigid >> comprehensive classification; on the contrary, it is meant to be an easily >> understandable and flexible overview. Thus, the modeler should envision the >> model that they eventually want to develop and then examine categories below >> based on that conception, to find a starting point for the design of their >> new visualization. >> Without taking the into account the particular phenomenon being modeled, I >> strongly suspect that the visualizations developed using this approach will >> produce, no doubt, pretty colored groupings of splotches that unfortunately >> convey little useful information about the actual problem domain. >> >> I'd be really curious to see what kind of results this viz design approach >> would produce for an ABM that modeled the transmission of an infectious >> disease with several distinct intermediate progression states in a city >> with, say 9 million mobile inhabitants. What insights would the viz give >> regarding contact patterns, super spreaders, demographic effects, possible >> intervention strategies? >> >> Also, Figure 13 made me want to start drinking early today. >> >> Don't get me wrong: I like pretty colored splotches as much as the next >> guy; I'd just prefer that my viz apps tell me something useful about my >> particular application. >> >> I give the paper a 3.4 on the ten scale. >> >> --Doug >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> >> wrote: >>> >>> The "how to visualize ABMs" paper is particularly interesting >>> http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html >>> >>> -- Robert >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: <[hidden email]> >>> Date: Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:15 AM >>> Subject: New issue of Journal of Artificial Societies and Social >>> Simulation, vol. 12(2) >>> To: [hidden email] >>> >>> >>> The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation >>> (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk) published issue 2 of Volume 12 on >>> 31-Mar-2009. >>> >>> JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and >>> understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It is >>> freely available, with no subscription. >>> ================= >>> >>> In this issue, we have 9 reviews of recent books related to social >>> simulation and complexity, as well as articles on design guidelines for ABM >>> visualisation, a survey of ABM platforms, a proposal for a new way of >>> modelling social networks, and models of consensus and occupational >>> inheritance in China. >>> >>> =============================================================== >>> Peer-reviewed Articles >>> =============================================================== >>> >>> How Groups Can Foster Consensus: The Case of Local Cultures >>> by Patrick Groeber, Frank Schweitzer and Kerstin Press >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/4.html> >>> >>> Agent-Based Simulation on Women's Role in a Family Line on Civil Service >>> Examination in Chinese History >>> by Chao Yang, Setsuya Kurahashi, Keiko Kurahashi, Isao Ono and Takao >>> Terano >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/5.html> >>> >>> Social Circles: A Simple Structure for Agent-Based Social Network Models >>> by Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/3.html> >>> >>> Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization >>> by Daniel Kornhauser, Uri Wilensky and William Rand >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html> >>> >>> =============================================================== >>> Forum (Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch) >>> =============================================================== >>> >>> Tools of the Trade: A Survey of Various Agent Based Modeling Platforms >>> by Cynthia Nikolai and Gregory Madey >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/2.html> >>> >>> =============================================================== >>> Book Reviews (Review editor: Flaminio Squazzoni) >>> =============================================================== >>> >>> Marco Castellani reviews: >>> Reason and Rationality by Elster, Jon >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castellani.html> >>> >>> Gennaro Di Tosto reviews: >>> Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means to Be Human by >>> Friedenberg, Jay >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/di_tosto.html> >>> >>> Cristiano Castelfranchi reviews: >>> Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain by Glimcher Paul W., >>> Camerer Colin, Poldrack Russell, Fehr Ernst (Eds.) >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castelfranchi.html> >>> >>> Károly Takács reviews: >>> Social and Economic Networks by Jackson, Matthew O. >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/tak_aacute_cs.html> >>> >>> Domenico Delli Gatti reviews: >>> Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy by Lim, G. C. and >>> McNelis, Paul D. >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/delli_gatti.html> >>> >>> Julie Dugdale reviews: >>> Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books) by >>> Pentland,(Sandy) Alex >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/dugdale.html> >>> >>> Francesca Giardini reviews: >>> Computable Models of the Law (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / >>> Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Casanovas Pompeu, Sartor >>> Giovanni, Casellas Núria, Rubino Rossella (Eds.) >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/giardini.html> >>> >>> Blake LeBaron reviews: >>> Agent-Based Modeling: the Santa Fe Institute Artificial Stock >>> Market Model Revisited (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) >>> by Ehrentreich, Norman >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/lebaron.html> >>> >>> Cesáreo Hernández-Iglesias reviews: >>> Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems: V. 5 >>> (Springer Series on Agent Based Social Systems) by Terano Takao, Kita >>> Hajime, Takahashi Shingo, Deguchi Hiroshi (Eds.) >>> >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/hern_aacute_ndez-iglesias.html> >>> >>> =============================================================== >>> >>> The new issue can be accessed through the JASSS home page: >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk>. >>> >>> The next issue will be published at the end of June 2009. >>> >>> Submissions are welcome: see >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/admin/submit.html> >>> >>> If you would like to assist in refereeing submissions to JASSS, go to >>> http://www.epress.ac.uk/JASSS/webforms/new_referee.php >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________________________ >>> JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION >>> <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/> >>> Editor: Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK >>> Forum Editor: Klaus G. Troitzsch, Koblenz-Landau University, Germany >>> Review Editor: Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> Sent from the EPRESS journal management system, http://www.epress.ac.uk >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> 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 >> >> >> > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [hidden email] > [hidden email] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ============================================================ > 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 |
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