Agent-Based Model
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: "The real art of model-building is in selecting the subset of the system that you want to model. Do not attempt to model the entire system. Throw away as much detail about the system as possible. If you build a model that includes all of the information in the system, then the model is no more helpful to you than the system itself". | : "The real art of model-building is in selecting the subset of the system that you want to model. Do not attempt to model the entire system. Throw away as much detail about the system as possible. If you build a model that includes all of the information in the system, then the model is no more helpful to you than the system itself". | ||
| - | In agent-based modeling less is more. The art is to find the essential ingredients of the model. | + | The difficulty is to find the right balance between oversimplification and overelaboration, between too much and too little detail. In agent-based modeling less is more. The art is to find the essential ingredients of the model. |
George Johnson says in his book "Fire in the Mind" (Vintage, 1996): | George Johnson says in his book "Fire in the Mind" (Vintage, 1996): | ||
