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Re: Combining antropology & complexity science, anyone?
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Rick Riolo |
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Re: Combining antropology & complexity science, anyone? |
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:14:41 -0500 (EST) |
I have lost the start of this thread, so excuse me
if I am giving you some info you don't want!
Presumably you have read this book:
ABM's in Anthropology. Readings from Dynamics in Human and Primate
Societies, T.A. Kohler and G. J. Gumerman (eds.), 2000
Also you might find some papers of interest at
http://www.pscs.umich.edu/research/techReports.html
There are several models of various aspects of human
behavior there, more or less "realistic" (mostly less!).
There are some papers that argue why "less is more"
for models of many CAS phenomena.
I think you mentioned supply chains.
One paper at the above site that deals with supply chains as an example,
while comparing EBM (equations-based approach) to ABM is:
PSCS-98-12-004: Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case
Study and Users Guide. Parunak, V., Savit, R., Riolo, R.
Proceedings of Workshop on Multi-agent systems
and Agent-based Simulation (MABS'98), Springer,
1998. Center for Electronic Commerce Paper CEC-0 115.
But its *not* about how humans act, its about how some
models of MRP algorithms handle the situation.
There are several general books and papers at
www.pscs.umich.edu/education/CSCS-courses/cscs530/generalCasReadings.html
many of them aimed at social scientists.
You might check out the work of Robert Reynolds and his
anthropology colleagues (at Wayne State Univ and University of Michigan).
They have some models of various anthropological phenomena (eg state formation).
I dont' have his URL handy, but you can find his email and some
description of his research interests at
http://www.pscs.umich.edu/people/associateFaculty.html#ReynoldsR
People doing models of land use, urban sprawl, etc (related to traffic of
course)
have started to take up some of the questions about
how to get how much "realism" into ABMs. For starters, check out
the CIPEC group, headed by Elinor Ostrom:
http://www.psych.indiana.edu/people/homepages/ostrom.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~cipec/
We at UM are just starting a project to model land use/cover (SLUCE).
We have just started collecting some references, at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/research/biocomplexity/readings.html
So watch for our work in the future (off the CSCS web pages).
- r
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