Re: A whiff of reality...

[Murat Yildizoglu]

>  Now look at
> typical modeling papers...can you reproduce what they did? Not
> usually...there's hardly ever enough information. So there's lots of
> room for creative interpretations. And the situation is far worse in
> areas where models are being used to make management decisions.  In
> these cases, the model user sometimes only knows that this model grows
> a tree...no idea how.  I believe the reviewer had this in mind and not
> chip design.

Yes, but who is responsible? When you send a detailed paper 
describing your model, your code and your protocol for the results, 
the editors ask you to shorten it (this is at least true in 
Economics). How can you write a detailed article in 15 pages? I think 
the traditional, paper based journals are not servicing correctly the 
development of simulation based science. This is why I have recently 
created The Electronic Journal of Evolutionary Modeling and Economic 
Dynamics (e-JEMED - http//cournot.u-strasbg.fr/jemed/ ). We ask on 
the contrary to receive papers as complete as possible in order to 
establish the reproductibility of their results. This is essential 
for verification.

Murat.
 
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