When: 28th – 31st of October, 2014
Where: University of Surrey, Guilford, UK
This course will guide you through the research process of agent-based modelling in the social sciences: formulating a research question, specifying a model, creating a simulation and interpreting the output. During the course you will be helped to build a model using NetLogo, acquiring basic and intermediate programming skills.
Course Objectives
The syllabus includes:
- conceptualising agent-based models
- operationalising and calibrating from data
- experimenting and analysing
- interpreting models
- verifying and validating