Re: Callling all cladisticists

Posted by Joshua Thorp on Jan 04, 2009; 1:02am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Callling-all-cladisticists-tp2106906p2107606.html

I don't know anything about cladistics, so I don't know whether this fits with it.

ABMs can have many different parents,  often not directly known. I'm not sure parentage in any strict sense would be a particularly good approach.  Better would be to identify separate patterns in how the ABMs work.  Any ABM could then be compared (even clustered) with other ABMs based on shared patterns.

High level patterns might include: how is time simulated in an ABM?  How are the energy or other flows accounted for in the model?  How is the environment broken up, or represented?  What kinds of interactions can take place between parts of the ABM (agents, environment, ?).  

Does this fit with cladistics?

--joshua

On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

cladistic

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