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Agent Based Adaptive Simulation & SD

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 1998 3:04 pm
by Fabian Szulanski
Hello,

A couple of months ago Ive run into an article talking about a
development made by a group inside a consulting firm, where they made a
market simulation with aprox. 30000 simulated consumers, interacting
colectivelly as a market for musical CDs.
With that simulation, it could be possible to test a new CD, before the
real launch, giving for example the info of the position in the rankings
during the first week.
That is also related with research done in the Santa Fe Institute, using
a tool called SWORM or similar to that, using what is called ABAS (Agent
Based Adaptive Simulation)

Does anybody know of any similar development using SD?
We know very well about simulating a couple of different policies
concurrently, but tens of thousands ?

Would it be interesting to build such type of market simulation using
SD?

Be well...

Fabian Szulanski
fabiansz@consultant.com

Agent Based Adaptive Simulation & SD

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 1998 7:43 am
by Jody House
Fabian-

Jim Hines and I are involved in a study of organizational evolution. I
believe an article by Jim on this topic is in a recent edition of the
Systems Thinker.

I have also seen a presentation by the folks at Ventana that combines system
dynamics and evolutionary algorithms.

Thanks,
Jody House

jhouse@ece.ogi.edu