605.221 (20S) Agent-based-Modeling
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Agent-based Modeling
- Type Seminar (continuous assessment course )
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 4.0
- Registrations 6 (15 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction English
- Course begins on 08.07.2020
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
Time and place
Course Information
Intended learning outcomes
- Understanding the core ideas of Agent-based modelling (ABM)
- Getting an idea of applications of ABM as research approach in business and economics including its virtues and drawbacks
- Getting a basic understanding of how to implement agent-based models including some computer exercises (but: this course is not a programming course!)
Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools
Lecture, discussion, students' presentation, computer exercises.
Please, have a notebook with MS-Excel or a comparable spreadsheet tool installed with you.
Course content
- Agent-Based Modelling: A Brief Introduction
- Building Agent-Based Models: Basic Introduction and Some Computer Exercises
- Agent-Based Computational Economics
- Examples of Research Studies Employing Agent-Based Models (Students’ Presentations)
- Agent-Based Modelling as a Research Approach: Virtues and Drawbacks
Literature
Chang M-H, Harrington JE (2006) Agent-based Models of Organizations. In:Tesfatsion L, Judd KL (eds) Handbook of Computational Economics: Agent-basedComputational Economics, vol 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 1273-1337
Macal CM, North MJ (2010) Tutorial on Agent-based Modelling and Simulation. Journal of Simulation 4 (3):151-162
Squazzoni F (2010) The Impact of Agent-based Models in the Social Sciences. History of Economic Ideas 18 (2):197-233
Wall F (2016) Agent-based Modeling in Managerial Science: An Illustrative Survey and Study. Review of Managerial Science 10(1):135-193
Further literature will be mentioned in the course's material.
Examination information
Examination methodology
Short oral presentation (20 min.) and a paper of 12 pages at maximum (not including index, references, appendix...).
Examination topic(s)
To each examinee a research paper employingagent-based modelling will be assigned.
The oral presentation is intended to give a shortoverview about the research question and the agent-based model in that paper.
The paper should in depth Show/discuss how theresearch question is captured by the agent-based model employed in the researchpaper.
Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations
Attendance of at least 75%.
For the presentation and the paper:
- correctness and clarity (i.e., are the key ideas of the research paper correctly and concisely captured and presented).
For the paper additionally:
- Elaboration of how the agent-based model reflects the research question of the paper.
Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Thematic Doctoral Programme Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in Business and Economics
(SKZ: ---, Version: 16W.2)
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Subject: Modelling, Simulation, Optimization in Business and Economics
(Compulsory subject)
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Modelling, Simulation, Optimization in Business and Economics (
0.0h XX / 0.0 ECTS)
- 605.221 Agent-based-Modeling (2.0h SE / 4.0 ECTS)
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Modelling, Simulation, Optimization in Business and Economics (
0.0h XX / 0.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Modelling, Simulation, Optimization in Business and Economics
(Compulsory subject)
- Doctoral programme Doctoral programme in Social and Economic Sciences
(SKZ: 300, Version: 18W.1)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
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Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
0.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
- 605.221 Agent-based-Modeling (2.0h SE / 4.0 ECTS)
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Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
0.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
- Doctoral programme Doctoral programme in Social and Economic Sciences
(SKZ: 300, Version: 12W.4)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
-
Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
40.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
- 605.221 Agent-based-Modeling (2.0h SE / 4.0 ECTS)
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Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
40.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
- Doctoral programme Doctoral programme in Social and Economic Sciences
(SKZ: 784, Version: 12W.4)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
-
Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
40.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
- 605.221 Agent-based-Modeling (2.0h SE / 4.0 ECTS)
-
Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums (
40.0h XX / 80.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Studienleistungen gem. § 3 Abs. 2a des Curriculums
(Compulsory subject)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
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Sommersemester 2024
- 605.221 VC Agent-based Modeling (RACE2: Modeling Boundedly Rational Agents) (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2021
- 605.221 SE Agent-based Modeling (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2019
- 605.221 SE Agent-Based Modelling (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2018
- 605.221 SE Agent-Based Modelling (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2017
- 605.221 SE Agent-Based Modelling (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)