Reproduction of Agent-Based Models
A well-used aphorism from British Mathematician Dr. George Box is, "All models are wrong. Some are useful." (George E. P. Box) The reason they are wrong is that models are a simplified representation of some real system, often a complex one. Repeatability is therefore an important component in discovering a model's validity. Yet there is some evidence that there is a crisis in the world of science in that many results cannot be reproduced.