From Evan Sultanik
AAMAS 2005
I’m still not up to the blog-update-frequency at which I’d be content, however, this is partially due to my attending another conference. I am currently in Utrecht in the Netherlands for AAMAS. It’s very rainy here, and pretty chilly, but I am having a great time. I’ll post some pictures in the coming days, but, in the mean time, here are some interesting quotes that were uttered during a simulation workshop I attended the day before yesterday (most of which can be attributed to Moss and Castelfranchi):
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| For 10 years, the agents community has struggled to do something useful.
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| Formalism gives precision.
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| Game theory is a failed paradigm.
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| Verification does not imply Validation.
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| You can have prediction without a description of process. In social science, we know the process but cannot predict.
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| Parameterizing competition is not legitimate.
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| In agent-based simulation, formulation does not require quantification.
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| Measurement Dysfunction!
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And my favorite…
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| The ‘Real World’ is a special case within the set of all possible worlds.
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