Yes, but it does not make sense to simulate billions of agents just for their own sake. I guess nothing interesting will happen until each of the billion agents is unique and contributes something different to the same goal - which is only possible if the goal is clear.
If the goal is the simulation of a city - is a simulation of a whole city with 250,000 agents really different from a simulation with 2,500 agents ? The reproduction of a whole system in a ratio of 1:1 would be a very poor model to understand it. And how would you specify 250,000 agents with different preferences ? -J. -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:47 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A billion agents Nobody knows until someone does the experiment. It is certainly possible that something interesting will happen once enough agents are simulated together. Right now it is a challenging task just to scale the simulations up. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
