Re: (no subject)

[Rick Riolo]

Let's see...

I'm sure Axelrod talks in those terms 
(though probably not data set)
in his article on simulation (in this book, I think):
   Simulating Social Phenomena
   R. Conte, R. Hegselmann and P. Terna (eds).
   Springer-Verlag, 1997
They might talk about replication in their "Docking"
paper as well (by Axtell, Axelrod, etc)--- in CMOT
and as a SFI working paper.

I'm looking in Law and Kelton's classic text
Simulation Modeling and Analysis,
and replication has many entries listed in the index,
including one on p243
  ...to make independent replications of the model...
talking about doing a bunch of runs with different RNG seeds.
They seem to use "replication" to mean what I would
call a "run".    I speak of replicating the results
of some other person's model with my model.
I think everyone around here talks that way
(axelrod, holland, cohen, page, ...)

Actually, i'm not sure how you use it!

p106-109 in K&L is about Steps in a Simulation Study
and step 7 is "Design Experiments" by which they
mean design simulation experiments.

- r

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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, M Lang / S Railsback wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:54:32 -0600
> From: M Lang / S Railsback <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: swarm modelling <address@hidden>
> Subject: (no subject)
> 
> I just got some review comments of a type I wonder if anyone else has
> had to cope with. 
> 
> The reviewer (and editor) objects to the use of terminology like
> "replicate", "experiment", "manipulation", and "data set" in reference
> to our agent-based modeling work. The reviewer said these terms are
> normally associated with 'real experiments', not simulations. 
> 
> I am tempted to make a case that these terms are, in fact, widely used
> in modeling (not necessarily even agent-based modeling). If anyone knows
> some really prominent examples, I would appreciate them.
> 
> I would concede that instead of "data set" we could talk about
> "simulation results" or "model output". 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 



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