Re: Callling all cladisticists

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jan 04, 2009; 5:18am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Callling-all-cladisticists-tp2106906p2108200.html

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> I seriously doubt that there is a one-size-fits-all taxonomy
> classifier for ABMs that will produce anything other than "No shit!"
> rudimentary descriptive information about any given ABM.
It might be informative to see map of invented conceptual attributes and
applications can be partitioned across a large set of models.  I can't
deny this just amounts to classifying individual models.  It's just that
I don't think it is interesting to say "Model 1 is a A type", and "Model
2 is B type" in isolation.   The interesting part would be the locations
of A and B and others in a multidimensional space.  (That's why I first
suggested the Euler diagrams in response to Glen's proposal.)

Marcus

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