Intensive Course on Agent-Based Modelling & Simulation for Business and Marketing
University of Sydney July 5 to 28 2011
Overview
The University of Sydney is pleased to announce the first intensive course on agent-based modelling (ABM) in Sydney, Australia. The course will bring a group of advanced graduate students together with academics interested in developing ABM skills for an intensive four-week course on ABM and its application to marketing, management and the social sciences more broadly. The course will be led by Professor David Earnest, Old Dominion University, based on a similar course he offers there. The course combines lectures with hands-on experience in lab sessions, building simulations of business and social phenomena. Upon completion of this course, participants will not only be familiar with the theoretical and methodological foundations of ABM, they will be able to implement their own simulations in the programming language NetLogo to support their research.
Further details and applications to attend the course are available on the course website: http://abmsydney.myreviewroom.com/
Course Leader:
Professor David Earnest, Old Dominion University USA
Venue:
Computer Laboratory 5,
H69, Economics and Business Building,
University of Sydney
Sponsors:
- Australian Research Council DP0881799 IF Wilkinson, RE Marks and LC Young
- University of Sydney Business School
- Australia New Zealand Marketing Academy
- School of Marketing, University of Western Sydney
- School of Marketing, University of Western Australia
- Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS), Charles Sturt University
- School of Economics, University of New South Wales
Dates:
9am - 5am, Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 5th to July 28th 2011
and Wednesday 6th July 2011
(Note: It is intended to repeat the course on a regular basis in future years, depending on funding support and student interest.)