Agent-based Modeling of Complex Adaptive Systems
In this lesson, you will build your background knowledge on Agent-Based
Modeling by watching a video, reviewing at a checklist of questions to
ask when trying to understand an agent-based model, and checking your
understanding by answering a few quiz questions.
Quiz questions:
Quiz questions:
1 point
What types of interactions can occur in agent-based models?
1 point
What types of systems are agent-based models suitable for modeling?
Reflection:
Identify a complex adaptive system you'd like to investigate. Describe the system in terms of how you might model it by answering the questions posed in a Model Design Form.
- What is the phenomenon you thought was a complex adaptive system?
- Who/what are the agents?
- What is the environment?
- What are the interactions between agents and/or between agents and the environment?
Post your reflections to your portfolio in "Reflection->Computer Modeling and Simulation" under the heading "Agent-based modelling of a Complex Adaptive System."