Re: Comparing system dynamics with agent-based modeling

Posted by Robert Holmes on Aug 31, 2009; 4:02pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Comparing-system-dynamics-with-agent-based-modeling-tp3553223p3554509.html

Your paper concludes that: "Any SD model can be converted to an equivalent agent-based model". However it begs the question: why would I carry out the conversion? Are ABM in some sense "better" than SD?

-- Robert

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yesterday, a friend (Franzi Poldy for those of you who know him) and I were discussing the relationship between system dynamics and agent-based modeling. I've written up a brief (5 pages) discussion. It's fairly rough, but if anyone gets a chance to read it, I'd appreciate your comments. To motivate your looking at it I'll claim that it comes to some interesting conclusions.

Thanks.

-- Russ


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