Santa Fe Institute

Agent Based Modeling and Simulation Part 1

• Instructor(s): North
• Institution: IIT-ID
• Category: Computer Science
• Description: Computer Applications and Design (ID 531-A): Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Part I Course Instructor: Michael J. North, MBA, Ph.D.
  
  Agent-based modeling is an organized approach to determining the system-level consequences of large numbers of interdependent cumulative individual choices. The agent-based modeling process produces useful, usable, and used simulations by beginning and ending with well posed, user focused questions in areas as diverse as market design, product design, organizational design, social science, and physical science. This course is offered as the first part of a two course sequence with Computer-supported Design Processes (ID 532-B). The course:
  
  • introduces agent-based modeling;
  
  • discusses when and why agent-based models are used;
  
  • details the agent-based model design process;
  
  • presents a comparative survey of modeling methodologies; and
  
  • describes a range of tools for ABMS.
  
  The course includes a participatory ABMS development project.