Latest issue of JASSS appears to contain a nugget

[Robert Holmes]

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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[Owen Densmore]

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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[Robert Holmes]

Wow! Never noticed that! Kudos to you Nick!

R

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

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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