7th Session- Computer Simulations (ABM1)
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This session we deal with the following questions: I. What is a theoretical model? II. How to “grow” increasingly complex artificial societies? III. What can we learn from different ABM (agent-based models)? |
1- Lecture: Watch the following lectures and answer the interactive questions (which are graded). We recommend to use the following slide print-outs to take notes.
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UCCSS_Smaldino_1: Models (7min) |
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I. What is a theoretical model?
UCCSS_ABM1_01: Theoretical Simulations (4min)
UCCSS_ABM1_02: Modeling and Mapping (6min)
UCCSS_ABM1_03: Extending Thoughts Computationally (16min)
II. How to “grow” increasingly complex artificial societies?
UCCSS_ABM1_04: Schelling's Segregation Model (15min)
UCCSS_ABM1_05: Reflecting on Schelling (6min)
UCCSS_ABM1_06: Expanding Schelling (16min)
UCCSS_ABM1_07: Sugarscape (10min)
UCCSS_ABM1_08: Sugarscape Components (4min)
UCCSS_ABM1_09: Sugarscape 2 (5min)
UCCSS_ABM1_10: Sugarscape 3: Inequality (19min)
UCCSS_ABM1_11: Sugarscape 4: Sex (7min)
UCCSS_ABM1_12: Sugarscape 5: Inheritance (7min)
UCCSS_ABM1_13: Sugarscape 6: Das Kapital (10min)
UCCSS_ABM1_14: Sugarscape 7-10: Pressured to Move (13min)
UCCSS_ABM1_15: Sugarscape 11-12: Sugar & Spice (6min)
UCCSS_ABM1_16: Life on the Brink (6min)
III. What can we learn from different ABM (agent-based models)?
UCCSS_ABM1_17: The Generativist Motto (12min)
(total 2h 52min)
2- Lab
In this lab you will explore different models of NetLogo, answering 6 questions. Download NetLogo and install it: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo Links to an external site. . We recommend this. Alternatively, you can also use an online version of NetLogo: https://www.netlogoweb.org Links to an external site. (quicker setup, but might not have all models you need).
Then go to the Lab assignment: 7th Session- Agent-Based Models
Optional / Voluntary / Complementary:
Smaldino, P. E. (2017). Models are stupid, and we need more of them Links to an external site.. In R. Vallacher, S. Read, & A. Nowak (Eds.), Computational Social Psychology (pp. 311–331). Routledge.
Ian Weaver's extended Sugarscape model: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/community/Sugarscape Links to an external site. (specifications: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/interdisciplinary-science/research/the-sugarscape) Links to an external site.
Uri Wilensky (author of NetLogo) and Bill Rand (2015). Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo. Links to an external site. Textbook.
Paul Smaldino (2015). Math Explains why hipsters all look the same Links to an external site.. Discover Magazine