Hunt’s entry #6. Please consider the following for addition to the candidate rules list: Take steps to preclude conflating (reifying) your model (or simulations) with its biological referent. Explanation: During a recent lecture at Google’s main campus, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther http://www.rgwinther...

Tony made major work on this topic. I do agree with his first selected rule formulation. ... Pras, this rule also helps in coping in situations where you cannot test the model in reality. ... For example, conducting the same clinical trial does not guaremtee the same results. Never the less, having...

Hunt’s entry #4. Below I list my top ten candidate rules selected from the original list, as revised as in my Entry # 2, but I Ignore the clustering in Entry #3. Also, see entry #1. 1. Use multiple implementations to check and balance each other 2. Do not simply document your code: make your code r...

Hunt’s entry #3. I see the candidate rules, revised as in my Entry #2 , falling into five clusters. I suggest a guiding principle for each cluster (I’m sure that they can be improved). I rank-ordered the candidate rules within each cluster, but could be happy with other rankings. Also, see entry #1...

Hunt’s entry #2. Below, I take issue with several candidate rules, explain my issues, and offer alternatives. See entry #1. Use credible solvers This is too narrow. A "solver" is an implementation and should be treated in exactly the same way as other SW implementations, including with version cont...

Hunt’s entry #1. I like and want to expand on the issues raised by Pras. My focus is this directive: “survey, augment and consolidate the list as needed to narrow in on the ten simple rules that matter most to the community each team represents.” My survey lead to a rich literature stretching back ...

I think it will be helpful if the CPMS posts ten or so particular, short, clear, straightforward, instructive, plausible yet hypothetical descriptions of simulation models, where each illustrates, to a degree, how credibility is being garnered, including illustrations of sources of credibility. My e...

To understand what we mean by credibility of a model, it will be nice to: (i) put a software repository we share about two dozen of publication we believe are: a. representative of the state of the art. b. representative of the broad use of modeling The space of model types and model uses within he...

Re: Voting on changes Ahmet, Jacob: It's hard to keep track of these various changes as posted in the Forum. A document with edits would be helpful. Some suggested changes seem helpful, others do not. Maybe when all pending revisions are made, a new Forum can focus on the revised document. I expect...

Re: Voting on changes Ahmet, Jacob: It's hard to keep track of these various changes as posted in the Forum. A document with edits would be helpful. Some suggested changes seem helpful, others do not. Maybe when all pending revisions are made, a new Forum can focus on the revised document. I expect...