Is there a formal definition of Agent Based Model? By "formal definition" I mean something like there is for a Finite State Automata:
A Finite State Automata is definded as a 5-tuple (Q, Σ, δ, q0, F) where 1 - Q is a finite set called the states. 2 - Σ is a finite set called the alphabet 3 - δ: Q X Σ -> Q is the transition function 4 - q0 ∈ Q is the start state, and 5 - F ⊆ Q is the set of accept states (Note: the above uses Unicode so if your display is odd, its trying to show symbols for Sigma, Delta and so on) If not, we ought to build one, right? Wikipedia discusses both CAs and ABMs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_based_model .. as well as FSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_state_automata Note that only the latter has a formal definition in the article. -- Owen ============================================================ 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
