Call for Email comments and announcement:
Roundtable discussion on:
ACE (Agent based Computational Economics), EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND DATA
ANALYSIS
Co-Organizers: Blake LeBaron (U of Wisconsin, blebaron(a)ssc.wisc.edu) and
Chris
Preist (Hewlett Packard, cwp(a)hplb.hpl.hp.com
This session will be part of:
Computation in Economics, Finance, and Engineering Economic Systems
Cambridge, UK, June 29--July 1, 1998
Several invited speakers will lead this discussion. However, in
recognition of
the fact that many people may not be able to attend the meeting, I would like
to summarize some comments submitted over email. I will present various
emailed comments (keep them less than 2 pages) on the following topics:
QUESTIONS AND DATA REPORTING:
Critical examination of the types of questions currently posed in ACE
frameworks, the experimental designs constructed for examining these
questions,
the types of data collected, and the possible use of
multi-media (sound, color, geometric shape) to report and interpret this data.
HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND GOODNESS OF FIT:
Critical examination of the extent to which current ACE frameworks exploit
standard statistical techniques for the testing and validation of hypotheses
and the measurement of goodness of fit. Are new types of statistical
techniques
needed?
PARAMETER SPECIFICATION AND SENSITIVITY:
Critical examination of the extent to which ACE applications undertake and
report parameter sensitivity tests, and the extent to which stylized facts,
natural data, and human-subject experimental data have been or could be
used to
pin down parameter values.
REPLICABILITY: Critical examination of the extent to which ACE applications
have been able to establish replicable interpretable relations between
structural specifications and evolutionary outcomes. Also, to what extent has
the results of ACE applications have been replicated across alternative
software and hardware platforms.
An emailed transcript of the meeting will be sent back to all email
contributors.
Send comments for discussion to:
Blake LeBaron at blebaron(a)ssc.wisc.edu
Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin
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