Mike:
I don't have an answer to your question, but how can we find out more about
the meetings of the ABQ Complexity Group?
-tom
On 11/2/05, Mike Oliker <mike.oliker at comcast.net> wrote:
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>
>
> MODEL SYSTEMS
> Last night's Albuquerque Complexity Group meeting featured a lot of
> exploration of models of social events like the growth of cities and the
> spread and life cycle of technology.
>
> We are looking for some model systems: akin to model organisms in biology
> (E.coli bacterium, drosophila fly, etc.
>
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel/modelsys.html ). These would
> ideally be: systems where real data is publicly available, and which hold
> some general interest as representative.
>
> One might be predicting the stock market -- does anyone know a good, free
> source of stock market data? Perhaps a game: man vs. machine could be a
> model which generates its own data. Perhaps it would be the solution of a
> standard problem like the traveling salesman problem. What are the most
> fecund candidates?
>
> -Mike Oliker
>
>
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