Symposium on Complex Systems Engineering/Abbott notes

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[edit] Holton regarding interdisciplinary and joint work

See Gerald Holton's remarks on The Increasing Coalescence of Scientific Disciplines.

Grisogono: I am surprised that Holton didnt reference EO Wilson's "Consilience" - an entire book on teh subject of the unity of knowledge and bridges between the islands of academe - one of the most challenging and exhilarating books I've ever read.

[edit] North, CONTAINING AGENTS: CONTEXTS, PROJECTIONS, AND AGENTS.

If an agent can be in only one context at a time, how would one model an agent at work speaking to his/her wife on the telephone?

Don't really understand how projections work.

[edit] North, "Agent-based Meta-Models"

From the paper. We advocate an approach to software development that may strike some as arcane and overly complex.