Re: [Swarm-Modelling] ABM in Nature

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "SR" == Steve Railsback  writes:

SR> address@hidden wrote:
>> Steve, I looked at the paper briefly and couldn't tell whether it
>> was a PDE or some sort of ABM/IBM; I could not tell if there was
>> any parallelism involved with the implementation of the equations.
>> Could you, or someone else on the list enlighten me?  Thanks

SR> Some of the authors on that paper have actually tried to model
SR> fish schooling with analytical equations (Flierl, G., D. Grünbaum,
SR> S. Levin, and D. Olson. 1999. From individuals to aggregations:
SR> The interplay between behavior and physics. Journal of Theoretical
SR> Biology, 196, 397–454.)

SR> But in the paper they discuss what individuals know and do, so I
SR> infer it is an individual-based model. If not, they could not have
SR> resisted showing the math. (There is nothing on the 'supplemental
SR> information' site that provides any more information on the
SR> model.)

That's bad enough it in itself, you shouldn't have to *infer* the
model being used, it should be explicit in the paper.  Somebody should
write a letter to Nature requesting a more detailed explanation of the
model, if it's not published in *full detail*, how can it be
reproduced? ;-)

A.