by Dr Derek Ho

There is an ongoing interdisciplinary effort to better understand the behaviour of important real-world complex systems made of many mutually interacting parts, examples of which include human societies, ecosystems and consumer markets. In this course, students will apply the powerful tool of agent-based modelling (ABM) from computer science to reproduce and understand behaviours in a range of complex systems from sociology, ecology and business. Students will experience the ongoing interdisciplinary attempt to improve our understanding of these systems using computational approaches and also gain proficiency in the versatile use of ABM, which may be of use in their disciplinary majors.