Models of Social Dynamics
Unit 1: Introduction
This introductory unit discusses what models are and how they are useful, and provides a brief introduction to the NetLogo programming language and how we will use it to explore agent-based models. We conclude with an outline of the course.
Resources
Slides: (pdf)
Script: (pdf)
Code: movement.nlogo
Readings: (pdf)
Exercises: (pdf)
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This project was supported by Grant #61105 from the John Templeton Foundation to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (PIs: S. Gavrilets and P. J. Richerson) with assistance from the Center for the Dynamics of Social Complexity and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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