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Dear All, And I am sorry to blow my own trumpet but there is quite a lot of this kind of defence in the second part of this: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/18/3/3.html I am now going to check the Miller and Page reference! Thanks, Edmund -- Edmund Chattoe-Brown [log in to unmask] On Fri, Nov 15, 2013, at 08:31 AM, Stuart Rossiter wrote: > > Some time ago we posted a survey on this list, asking you what typical criticism you receive on your work. The responses we got from were fed into our reflections on is now published in a forum paper in JASSS: > > > > Communicating Social Simulation Models to Sceptical Minds > > by Annie Waldherr and Nanda Wijermans > > http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/4/13.html > > > > We would like to thank all of you who participated in this survey and invite you to read and respond to our thoughts. > > > > Best wishes, Annie & Nanda > > Nice writeup; thanks. (I wasn't a survey respondent.) > > Some of the criticisms reminded me of Miller & Page's defence of > 'computation as theory' (chapter 5 of their 'Complex Adaptive Systems' > textbook). Such kinds of structured defence might be useful to avoid > 'reinventing the argumentative wheel' so to speak, and as base > material for any more concerted 'community position' (or at least > discussion). > > Just a thought. > > Regards, > Stuart > > -- > ________________________________ > Stuart Rossiter > [log in to unmask] > > Research Fellow: EPSRC Care Life Cycle Project > http://www.southampton.ac.uk/clc -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own