Syllabus
29.03.2005: Introduction and logistics
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05.04.2005: Complexity theory
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12.04.2005: Artificial life and intelligence
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19.04.2005: Network models
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- Philip Ball. 2004. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Albert Réka, and Albert-László Barabási. 2001. Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks. Reviews of Modern Physics 74.
- Duncan J. Watts. 2003. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age: W. W. Norton & Company.
26.04.2005: Traffic and urban geography
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- Michael Balmer, Kai Nagel, and Bryan Raney. 2004. Large scale multi-agent simulations for transportation applications.
- Stephen Eubank, Hasan Guclu, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marathe, Aravind Srinivasan, Zolta´n Toroczkai, and Nan Wang. 2004. Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks.
- Pieric Ferrari, and Kai Nagel. 2004. Robustness of Efficient Passenger Boarding in Airplanes.
- Kai Nagel, and Fabrice Marchal. 2003. Computational methods for multi-agent simulations of travel behavior.
- Throsten Schelhorn, David O'Sullivan, Mordechay Haklay, and Mark Thrustain-Goodwin. 1999. Streets: An Agent-Based Pedestrian Model.
03.05.2005: Economy
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10.05.2005: Sociology
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17.05.2005: Conflict
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- S. A. Bremer, and M. Mihalka. 1977. Machiavelli in Machina: Or Politics Among Hexagons. Problems of World Modeling:303-337.
- Lars-Erik Cederman. 2003. Modeling the Size of Wars: From Billiard Balls to Sandpiles. American Political Science Review 97:135-150.
- Joshua M. Epstein. 2002. Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach.
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24.05.2005: Validation
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31.05.2005: GIS
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- Robert L. Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein, Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jason Harburger, Shubha Chakravarty, Ross Hammond, Jon Parker, and Miles Parker. 2002. Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 99 (3):7275-7279.
- Dimitris Ballas, David Rossiter, Bethan Thomas, Graham Clarke, and Danny Dorling. 2005. Geography Matters: Simulating the Local Impacts of National Social Policies.
- H. Randy Gimblett. 2002. Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity: Oxford University Press.
07.06.2005: Student presentations
14.06.2005: Student presentations
21.06.2005: Student presentations
28.06.2005: Student presentations