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Posted by wakeland@pdx.edu To elaborate slightly on Keith's posting regarding Optimization and Monte Carlo (SD5894), one key benefit of Monte Carlo is to assess risk. What I describe below is by no means new information (it was call probabilistic SD or PSD many years ago), but perhaps it is worth re...

Posted by wakeland@pdx.edu Are insights useful? Of course they are. Is there an accepted way to quantify how much an insight is worth? Not to my knowledge. Two of the best (among many) demonstrations of how building SD models can lead to useful insights are G. Richardson's ""Insightful Lit...

Posted by wakeland@pdx.edu I do not agree with posting SD5621 about adding emergence (as in ""boids"") to the list of SD characteristics. I believe that the behavior in SD is almost the antithesis of emergence, since the behavior is calculated directly by solving the equations. E...