Re: [Swarm-Support] development priorities (was Re: Membership in Swarm Developmen Group)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Scott Christley wrote:
> Another viewpoint is that we know the behavior of the collective for 
> this is what we can observe, so we want to know what individual 
> behaviors can give rise to that collective action.  This isn't so 
> obviously characterized as a simulation task, more one of model 
> selection, but if viewed from the meta-level of a set of parameterized 
> models (versus a single model with a set of parameters) then 
> simulation becomes an exploration of meta-models of individual 
> behaviors.  This is even more intractable which just gives even more 
> reason to run on big computers!  
But this is a third thing, search and inference as a opposed to 
elaboration of a component detail...