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Clearly, we feel that more attention is needed concerning the validation of net-
works resulting from simulation models. This lack may be due to the disconnection
between the different scientific communities looking at the emergence of networks.
We hope that the social simulation workshops and conferences such as ESSA and
MABS could play a role in bringing these groups together and thus help establish: (a)
the importance of this problem (b) the development of approaches to better validate
generated networks against empirical data and ultimately, (c) some norms and stan-
dards of what constitutes an adequate attempt to do this when publishing research
where simulations produce networks as an important part of their purpose.
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