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Lecture Notes on Complex Adaptive Systems

These notes are copyright 2003, Advanced Learning Center, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Permission is granted to use these slides, although credit must be given to the ALC.

Introduction to Complex Adaptive Systems

Intro to the Course

Intro to Complex Systems

Why We Model?

Introduction to Cellular Automata

One-Dimensional CA

1D-CA Worksheets (PDF)

Two-Dimensional CA

Agents and Rules

Variety in a Population of Agents
Part 1     Part 2      
Part 3     Part 4

Understanding Rules and Interaction in CAS
Part 1     Part 2

Complexity in the Social Sciences

Swarm Intelligence

NetLogo Exercise on Swarm Intelligence

Schelling’s Segregation Model

Artificial Societies: Introducing the Sugarscape

Artificial Socieites: Wealth Distribution in the Sugarscape

Social, Economic and Computer Networks

Exploring Social Networks: From Schelling to Gladwell
 

Game Theory

Introduction to Game Theory: The Prisoner’s Dilemma

Solving the Normal Form Game - the Nash Equilibrium

The Extensive Form Game

Evolutionary Game Theory

 


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This website is copyright by Mesa State College, 2004. All rights are reserved.

Some materials are adapted from the NetLogo User manual, and are copyright Wilensky, U. (1999). NetLogo.  Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.