Canonical Tasks, Environments and Models for Social Simulation

Scott Moss ()
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Scott Moss: Manchester Metropolitan University

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2000, vol. 6, issue 3, No 2, 249-275

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to propose and describe an alternative to an overarching theory for social simulation research. The approach is an analogy of the canonical matrix. Canonical matrices are matrices of a standard form and there are transformations that can be performed on other matrices to show that they can be made into canonical matrices. All matrices which, by means of allowable operations, can be transformed into a canonical matrix have the properties of the canonical matrix. This conception of canonicity is applied to three models in the computational organization theory literature. The models are mapped into their respective canonical forms. The canonical forms are shown to be transitively subsumptive (i.e., one of them is “nested” within a second which itself is “nested” within the third. The consequences of these subsumption relations are investigated by means of simulation experiments.

Keywords: canonical models; social stimulation; model docking; subsumption; model alignment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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