2008 年 1 巻 1 号 p. 175-187
The "Keep It Simple, Stupid" (KISS) principle stated by Robert Axelrod is a good guideline to model agent-based social simulation. However, to cope with real phenomena, we must go beyond the KISS principle. This paper re-examines the principle and discusses the underlining requirements for agent-based modeling using our recently developed agent-based models as examples.