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Will the economic agent-based simulation community ever conquer the Tower of Babel effect - and what does it take to succeed in this quest? These are the topics for this paper where it is argued that settling on a common programming language - or even a common platform as Swarm, is not sufficient for reaching a satisfactory level of communication between modelers. With this lack of communication, agent-based simulation models runs the risk of being perceived as onedamned thing after the otherwithout ever accumulating a set of broadly accepted conclusions. A solution to this problem is suggested in the adoption of the framework concept from computer science. A sketch of an application framework for doing economic simulations in Swarm is presented and tested (in a virtual sense) on existing economic Swarm models
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Bruun, C. (2002). Prospect for an Economics Framework for Swarm. In: Luna, F., Perrone, A. (eds) Agent-Based Methods in Economics and Finance. Advances in Computational Economics, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0785-7_1
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