Having analyzed the Fairfield farmers' market, read through the three articles given to me by Jim and Timlynn, and tied up some loose ends with some postings on the website, I expect the remainder of today and tomorrow to be centered around two goals:
- Researching and blogging about agent-based simulation platforms
- Reading "Fields that Dream," "Fields of Plenty," and, as time allows, "The World is Flat." I also hope to continue with "The Story of B" at some point, but that may have to wait.
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The Agent-based Simulation content is especially important...
The reading you mention is good, especially the local food books we provided you at our last project meeting.
Beefing up the agent-based simulation on-line resources, especially links to relevant software technologies and interesting project experience reports, is a top priority.
As we move into building a repository of candidate role-based cognitive model "piece=parts," your developing a deeper appreciation of how such models are designed and represented will be most important to your own learning as well as to the success of this phase of the project.
I will soon post a "Why Agent-based Simlulation?" article to give some context to this next step in the Proof of Concept phase of our project. I'll also be posting some meta-model "snippets" that will help us structure the role-based and process-oriented nature of the models we'll be developing.
Keep reading, sure, but try to focus more on your exploratory learning by sniffing out the best agent-based simulation content that you can find on the Internet, and ghen add it to our project's on-line resource directory.
--Sohodojo Jim--