Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Lecture C2 (2022-09-13): Beyond DES Simulation – SDM, ABM, and NetLogo (and pre-lab discussion for Lab 4 and post-lab discussion for Lab 3)

In this lecture, we briefly introduce System Dynamics Modeling (SDM) and Agent-Based/Individual-Based Modeling (ABM/IBM) as the two ends of the simulation modeling spectrum (from low resolution to high resolution). The introduction of ABM describes applications in life sciences, social sciences, and engineering (Multi-Agent Systems, MAS)/operations research. NetLogo is introduced, and it is used to present examples of running ABM's as well as the code behind them. At the end of the ABM/NetLogo introduction, comments about the previous lab on Monte Carlo simulation are given. These comments focus on interval estimation (which is right 95% of the time, as opposed to point estimation that is right 0% of the time) and the role of non-trivial distributions of random variables (as opposed to just their means).



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