[Swarm-Modelling] Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

[North, Michael]

We are pleased to announce the fourth annual "Capturing Business
Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation" course to be
jointly hosted by Argonne National Laboratory, the Santa Fe Institute,
and the University of Chicago.  The Capturing Business Complexity course
offers an intensive introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation
(ABMS) with a focus on business applications.  During the course, a
series of lectures and hands-on laboratories will be used to introduce
the foundational ideas and tools of ABMS and their application to
business questions. The topics include:

1.) the definition of agents,
2.) the design and construction of agents,
3.) the design and construction of agent environments,
4.) understanding ABMS results,
5.) effectively presenting ABMS results,
6.) and applications of these core topics to specific examples including
supply chain models in Mathematica, a Repast, and Swarm.

The course includes two sessions:

1.) The first session focuses on ABMS concepts from the perspective of
company managers and analysts.  This session runs from Monday April 18,
2005 through the morning of Wednesday April 20, 2005. There are no
prerequisites.
2.) The second session focuses on ABMS implementation from the
perspective of company software developers and includes extensive
hands-on exercises.  This session runs from Wednesday April 20, 2005
though Friday April 22, 2005.  Prerequisites are a good knowledge of
general ABMS concepts and a basic familiarity with programming in a
high-level language.  A review of the relevant object-oriented
programming concepts, as applied to ABMS, will be given.

Participants are invited to attend the first session, the second
session, or both depending on their current knowledge and interests.
Please visit the following address for additional course information and
registration details:

        http://www.dis.anl.gov/abms/

Michael

Michael J. North
Deputy Director
Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation
Argonne National Laboratory
Decision and Information Sciences Division
 
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