Re: [Swarm-Modelling] lifecycle requirements

[Marcus G. Daniels]

glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> How does this treat the modeling effort?  Everything you've described
> treats the execution of models but not the act of modeling, which is
> what I'm trying to facilitate.
>   
It's pinning down details on what I understood the idea to be.  If that 
is not the idea, then you can point out a specific problem in what I 
proposed.  If that is the idea, then we can discuss alternate easier to 
understand or more concise formalisms for the idea.  Sometimes it isn't 
so easy to pin down an instance of an idea for dissection, and in these 
situations more incrementally refined handwaving may be unavoidable.  
Instantiate/dissect is not the only way to proceed, but it is one.   You 
provided no formalisms of your own.  
> So, in order to participate in a conversation, a person _must_ go out
> and learn (either by asking or research) what a term means and how to
> use it _before_ being able to participate in the discussion.
I think any reasonable person that bothers to watch us go back and forth 
is likely to think this is just something we do.
Occasionally something even comes out of it.