Course Summary

Course Schedule

Week 1: Why Agent-Based Models?

July 5

AM: Introduction and Class Materials: Thinking about agents

PM: Introduction to NetLogo

July 6

Programme

AM: Seminars on applications of Agent-based model research (David Earnest and local researchers)

PM: Seminars on applications of Agent-based model research (David Earnest and local researchers) and discussion on how to design ABM research

July 7

AM: Complex systems theory and social science

PM: ABM versus other modeling paradigms

Week 2: The Basics of Agent-Based Modelling

July 12

AM: Emergence, nonlinearity, tipping, and equilibria

PM: Social versus physical, biological, and ecological systems

July 14

AM: Research Design and Model Verification

PM: Designing Experiments and Analysing Results in BehaviorSpace

Week 3: Advanced Topics and Applications 1

July 19

AM: Criticism of ABM

PM: Model Validation

July 21

AM: Evolutionary Computation and "Smart" Agents

PM: Social Network Analysis

Week 4: Advanced Topics and Applications 2

July 26

AM: Applications to Organisation Theory, Business and Marketing

PM: More Applications

July 28

AM: Project presentations, discussion and feedback

PM: Project presentations, discussion and feedback