Re: UCLA Course on Computational Social Science (PoliSci 209-2)

[Pietro Terna]

        Dear Benedikt,

        a wonderful initiative. It is also very interesting to have the slide of
the Lectures. Quoting the author, can I use them in my Seminar? (See next
message).

        A stupid question: the downloaded file has extention .ppt; what kind of
archive is it?

        Yours, Pietro

At 15.43 11/01/98 -0800, you wrote:
>The UCLA Department of Political Science will be sponsoring a course on Agent
>Based Modeling in Swarm this Winter quarter, (Political Science 209-2:
>Computational Social Science)
>
>The objective of this course is to introduce social scientists, students and
>faculty members to Agent Based Modeling based on the Swarm libraries, an
Object
>Oriented simulation toolbox developed by the Santa Fe Institute in New
Mexico.
>
>Our first regular meeting will be on Monday January 12th at 11:00 AM in
Bunche
>Hall, Room 4269. We will be meeting every week on Mondays from 11:00 AM to
2:00
>PM, except for the following three meetings, when the class will be moved to
>Wednesday, same room and same time:
>
>   January 19th (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) -> Wednesday January 21st
>   February 9th  -> Wednesday February 11th
>   February 16th (Washington's Birthday) -> Wednesday February 18th
>
>A rough outline of the course follows. Material and updated information
for this
>course will be found at:
>     http://cce.sscnet.ucla.edu/swarmcourse/syllabusW98.htmlI.Week -
Introduction
>to Swarm and overview of the course:
>        Monday January 12th        + Introduction and demonstration of Swarm
>capabilities.        + Overview - programming tools and evolution of a
simulation
>program.II-IV Week - The C programming language         Wednesday January
21st
>        +  Practical programming - the editor, compiler and debugger.
>        +  Basic data types and operators.        +  Control and data
>flow.         Monday January 26th
>        + Functions and program structure
>        + Input and output.         Monday February 2nd
>        + Memory allocation and data (pointers and arrays).
>
>V.Week - Object Oriented Programming
>
>        Wednesday February 11th        + Introduction to Object Oriented
>Programming.        + Objective-C syntax.VI.Week - Swarm: first steps
>        Wednesday February 18th       + Evolving a simple model from basic
C, to
>Objective-C to Swarm.VII-VII.Week - The Swarm libraries
>       Monday February 23rd       + Structure of a Swarm program,
schedules and
>collections.       + Probe library and graphical output.IX.-X Week - Swarm in
>practice
>       Monday March 2nd       + Case studies:            Implementations of
>Epstein and Axtell (Sugarscape), Schelling's           segregation model and
>Axelrod's model of culture.       Monday March 9th
>       + Adaptive Agents, implementation and practical problems. GAs,
>ANNs           Finite State Machines and other "learning algorithms".
>
>------------------
>Benedikt Stefansson                         address@hidden
>Department of Economics, UCLA    Fax. (310) 825-9528
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477         Tel. (310)  825-4126
>
>
>
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