Syllabus
20.02.2008: Introduction and logistics
27.02.2008: Agent-based modeling I
Required readings:
- Nigel Gilbert. 2007. Agent-based models. Chapters 1 and 2.
Recommended readings:
05.03.2008: Agent-based modeling II
Mandatory reading material:
Supplementary material:
12.03.2008: Tooling
Required readings:
Recommended readings:
- Nick Collier. RePast: An Extensible Framework for Agent Simulation. 2002.
- Nicholson Collier and Thomas R. Howe. RePast 2.0: Major Changes and New Features. 2003
- Sean Luke, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Liviu Panait, and Keith Sullivan. MASON: A New Multi-Agent Simulation Toolkit. Proceedings of the 2004 SwarmFest Workshop. 2004.
- North, M.J., N.T. Collier, and J.R. Vos. Experiences Creating Three Implementations of the Repast Agent Modeling Toolkit,
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 16, Issue 1,
pp. 1-25, ACM, New York, New York, USA (January 2006).
- Michele Sonnessa. JAS: Java Agent-based Simulation library. An open framework for algorithm-intensive simulations. 2004.
19.03.2008: Implementation
02.04.2008: Student proposals
09.04.2008: Applications to sociology
Required readings:
Supplementary material:
- Andrzej Nowak, Jacek Szamrej, and Bibb Latané. 1990. From Private Attitude to Public Opinion: A Dynamic Theory of Social Impact. Psychological Review 97 (3):362-376.
- Thomas Schelling, Micromotives and Macrobehavior, W W Norton & Co Ltd, 1978, Chapter 4.
- Elizabeth Bruch and Robert D. Mare, Neighborhood choice and neighborhood change,
UCLA, California Center for Population Research, On-Line Working Paper
Series (University of California, Los Angeles), Year 2005, Paper
CCPR-013-05.
- James G. March. 1991. Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science 2 (1):71-87.
16.04.2008: Applications to traffic and urban geography (Mr. Jeremy Hackney)
Reading material:
23.04.2008: Applications to management and economics (Mr. Frank Walter)
- Mark E. J. Newman (2003): The Structure and Function of Complex Networks, SIAM Review, 45.
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Reka Albert (1999): Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks, Science, 286, 509--512.
- Duncan J. Watts and Steven H. Strogatz (1998): Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks, Nature, 393, 440-442.
- Frank E. Walter and Stefano Battiston and Frank Schweitzer (2008): A Model of a Trust-Based Recommendation System on a Social Network, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 16 (1), 57-74.
30.04.2008: Applications to politics
Mandatory reading material:
Supplementary material:
07.05.2008: Student presentations I
14.05.2008: Student presentations II
21.05.2008: Student presentations III
28.05.2008: Student presentations IV