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Re: Combining antropology & complexity science, anyone?
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M Lang / S Railsback |
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Re: Combining antropology & complexity science, anyone? |
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:49:43 -0700 |
Norberto Eiji Nawa wrote:
>
> Jurgen,
>
First, let me applaud Jurgen for at least thinking about modeling a
system as it really is instead of how it is usually modeled (for
mathematical convenience, most likely). If people are at all like the
fish I model, you may find that human factors (like getting nervous when
the warehouse is empty, remembering what happened last time you had too
much stock...) might damp the bullwhipping instead of/ in addition to
causing it.
Of course I also agree with Eiji that you can get into a model that is
too complex to understand much from. If you haven't already, I would
digest Robert Axelrod's work, especially his book "The Complexity of
Cooperation" for ideas on simple models of human interactions.
The traffic models are one kind of agent-based simulation where human
behavioral traits are simulated. You can model how car & truck traffic
(and probably bicycles where you live) flows through some street network
and vary the fraction of drivers that have different driving habits. I
know there are several different such models out there, some of which
may be public domain. Contact your friendly local traffic engineer and
ask; maybe she will let you play with a model for a while. (Or if you
don't succeed, contact me- I actually happen to know my local traffic
engineer.)
Steve R.
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