Santa Fe Institute

Agent Based Modeling and Simulation Part 2

• Instructor(s): North
• Institution: IIT-ID
• Category: Computer Science
• Description: 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 second part of a two course sequence with Computer Applications and Design (ID 531-A). The course:
  
  • discusses the Repast Simphony ABMS development tool;
  
  • describes ABMS architectures;
  
  • details agent-based model project management;
  
  • presents model verification and validation techniques;
  
  • introduces data collection and cleaning for modeling; and
  
  • covers model output analysis and results presentation approaches.
  
  The course includes a hands-on model development project using the free and open source Repast Simphony agent-based modeling environment. T