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Russell Standish |
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Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Re: [Swarm-Support] Re: Agent communication and grid models |
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Wed, 28 May 2003 09:23:06 +1000 (EST) |
No! Mean field means that agents interact solely with an average
background property, not with individual agents. A panmictic model
(dubbed "soup" model here) has each agent having equal probability of
interacting with the other agents (or simply interacting with all
other agents). A mean field approximation is really only valid when
the effect of all agents is equivalent to the sum (or average) of the
agents - pretty much when there is no complex emergence in the system.
Cheers
Doug Donalson wrote:
>
> Just for reference. The more common term for "soup" models is "mean
> field".
>
> Cheers,
>
> D4
>
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