Good topic for Swarmfest discussion

[Benedikt Stefansson]

Matthew Hare just mentioned this as one of the issues he'd like to
discuss at Swarmfest:

"the thorny application issue worrying me at the moment: how to shift
modelling paradigms and take existing domain researchers with you, e.g.
how to re-implement a mathematical population model in terms of a
spatial individual-based A-Life model, whilst, at the same time,
convincing the original model authors that the integrity of their model
has been retained, and therefore that the new paradigm can be trusted.
Re-implementation decisions regarding such models does not appear to be
as clear-cut as I first thought ..."

I for one am worrying about these issues right now. It would be very
interesting to hear what other people have to say about the problems one
faces in translating models from analytical to agent-based form and
convincing traditionalists that the exercise is worthwhile.

-Benedikt


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