Jorg,
Cosma Shalizi (blog: three-toed sloth) has many good links where you might find something relevant. Here's some:
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/agent-based-modeling.html
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/517.html
and his 'chaos, complexity and inference' course which puts ABM in a wider context:
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/598.html
Somewhere - I can't find where - he also links to this paper:
http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/papers/isitr529.pdf
"A General Methodology for Mathematical Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems" which attempts to show that at least some set of ABMs can be replaced with differential equations - so an implicit critique.
Cheers,
Dan
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From: News and discussion about computer simulation in the social sciences on behalf of Jörg Leonhard
Sent: Fri 13/02/2009 08:01
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Subject: [SIMSOC] Critique on agent-based simulation
Dear all,
Could anyone give me a hint on where to find an article that is dealing with the critique on
agent-based simulation from a formal point of view. I only have articles from within the
world of agent-based modelers showing that the usual critique on ABMS is not correct.
However, I would also like to read some fundamental critique on it (of course not to extend to the critique :-)
Thank you very much for your help.
Jörg Leonhard
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