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ENGD3003: Complexity of the Interconnected World
2023 unit information
This unit of study is designed to provide students an in-depth appreciation of the inter-connected world, its complexities and challenges, and the necessary systems-thinking and analytical skills to handle them. Globalisation, better transport, as well as technical and cultural exchanges have made the modern world truly interconnected, interdependent, and diverse. This interdependent structure and behaviour bring about significant new challenges associated with the design and management of complex systems. This unit will enable the students to tackle these challenges by providing them with the necessary systems-thinking, inter-disciplinary analysis, and leadership skills. The studied topics will include dynamical analysis of complex interdependent networks, local and global measures of network structure and evolution, cascading failures, as well as predictive measures of catastrophic failure in complex adaptive systems, and the tools that enable planning for resilient system design. This unit will equip future professionals with sufficient expertise and technical know-how for the design of efficient failure-prevention and intervention policies, and robust crisis forecasting and management.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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must be in the Dalyell stream |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. develop a high-level view (big picture thinking or systems-thinking) about how people and institutions interact together in achieving goals, and recognise identifiable patterns in such interactions
- LO2. understand and appreciate the concepts of self-organisation and emergent behaviour, and how they influence and shape the dynamics of the interconnected world
- LO3. appreciate the concept of ‘guided self-organisation’ as a novel approach to leadership and management of large systems
- LO4. understand and appreciate the inter-connectedness of the world and its socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, the evolution of this inter-connectedness over time, and the advantages and disadvantages of this inter-connectedness.
- LO5. Use elementary and intermediate computing skills to analyse, understand and simulate the dynamics of complex systems and interconnected systems
- LO6. creatively use different systems-thinking approaches to model and present the complexity of interconnected systems in a meaningful way
- LO7. understand the nature and dynamics of interdependent systems
- LO8. apply topological analysis to a particular complex system to critically understand its structure
- LO9. efficiently use existing software tools (e.g., Cityscape, Pajek ) in complex network analysis
- LO10. design basic network structures that satisfy structural and functional criteria within given domains and contexts
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