860-0011-00L  Agent-Based Modeling and Social System Simulation - With Coding Project

SemesterAutumn Semester 2021
LecturersN. Antulov-Fantulin, T. Asikis, D. Helbing
Periodicityyearly recurring course
Language of instructionEnglish
CommentOnly for Science, Technology, and Policy MSc.

Prerequisites: Good mathematical skills, basic programming skills, elementary probability and statistics.


Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course
ECTS credits6 credits
ExaminersN. Antulov-Fantulin, T. Asikis, D. Helbing
Typegraded semester performance
Language of examinationEnglish
RepetitionRepetition only possible after re-enrolling for the course unit.
Additional information on mode of examinationStudents have to implement an established mathematical model from the computational social science literature in MATLAB or/and python. During the course students have to submit a short proposal specifying their project. At the end, projects must be documented in a 15 page seminar thesis and presented in a 15 minute seminar talk. The thesis should include a discussion of the mathematical model, its theoretical concept, properties of the model, and parameter dependencies, but also possible practical implications.