Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Re: [Swarm-Support] Re: Agent communication and grid models

[Russell Standish]

No! Mean field means that agents interact solely with an average
background property, not with individual agents. A panmictic model
(dubbed "soup" model here) has each agent having equal probability of
interacting with the other agents (or simply interacting with all
other agents). A mean field approximation is really only valid when
the effect of all agents is equivalent to the sum (or average) of the
agents - pretty much when there is no complex emergence in the system.

                                                Cheers

Doug Donalson wrote:
> 
> Just for reference.  The more common term for "soup" models is  "mean
> field".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> D4
> 


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