Week

Dates

Topic

Assignments

Notes

1

1-10

Intro to the course

1-12

Emergence

Assignment 1

Due at 1-17 1.00AM

2

1-17

No class: Martin Luther day

Read handout of Schelling

1-19

Micro-rules and Macro Behavior

3

1-24

Modeling process

1-26

Netlogo

4

1-31

Cellular Automata

Assignment 2

Due at 2-7 1.00 AM

2-2

5

2-7

Intro to Agent-based modeling

Assignment 3

Due at 2-14 1.00 AM

Read: Growing Artificial Societies: Chapter 1

2-9

6

2-14

Segregation & Diffusion processes

Assignment 4

Due at 2-21

1.00 AM

2-16

7

2-21

Diffusion processes: Fads, Fashions, etc.

2-23

8

2-28

Social Dilemmas

Assignment 5

Due at 3-7

1.00 AM

Read: Evolution of Cooperation: Chapter 1-3

3-2

Prisoner Dilemma Tournament

9

3-7

Discussion group projects

3-9

Evolution of Cooperation

10

Spring Break

11

3-21

Spatial models of social dilemmas

Read: Evolution of Cooperation: Chapter 4, 6,7, 8 (till page 158)

3-23

12

3-28

Foraging

Read: Growing Artificial Societies, Chapter 2, 3

3-30

13

4-4

Artificial Societies: Sugarscape

Read: Growing Artificial Societies, 4 (till page 111)

4-6

14

4-11

Artificial Societies: Anasazi and Bali

4-13

15

4-18

Presentations of group projects

Group projects due at

4-25 1.00AM

4-20

16

4-25

Recap of the course: Q&A

4-27

17

Finals