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
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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
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