Paper criticising modelling where the mapping from the model to what it models is vague, but yet conclusions about that observed reality are made. https://rofasss.org/2022/02/28/poverty-suggestivism/
Discussion Papers
- Rigour for Agent-Based Modellers – an accessible guide for the perplexed · 10 October 2023
- A declaration of Social Simulator Rights! · 7 September 2023
- A challenge to the ABM/Social simulation community: *helping people agree* · 7 September 2023
- New joint paper: What do you want theory for? - A pragmatic analysis of the roles of “theory” in agent-based modelling · 25 August 2023
- Paper: Meyer & Edmonds "The importance of dynamic networks within a model of politics" · 28 February 2023
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News and Events
- Making Models FAIR: An educational initiative to build good ABM practices · 11 May 2023
- Interdisciplinary Workshop on Opinion Dynamics and Collective Decision 2023, July 12-14, Bremen · 3 April 2023
- Call for Expressions of Interest: Alternative simulation models of the emergence of inequality · 2 March 2023
- New paper "Cognition and Hypocognition: Discursive and simulation-supported decision-making within complex systems" by Gary Polhill and Bruce Edmonds (291) · 18 February 2023
- Review of "Escape from Model Land. How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It" · 5 January 2023
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