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Syllabus-Apr

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CSCS 530 Syllabus -- April

Goto Apr 4, 6, 11, 13, 18

April 1 Sunday --- Project #2 Due. Project #2 Description.

Apr 4 Wed

Verification/validation -- Mar 6-12th: I may swap in some different papers

Discussion Leaders: Chang, Jieshi, Nick

For class discussion, list some ways you could (given time...):

• Use data to set parameters or initial conditions
• Calibrate your model
• Evaluate ("Validate") your model with respect to claims you want to make

Required

• Axtell and Epstein. "Agent-Based Modeling: Understanding Our Creations." From SFI Bulletin, Winter 1994. Copy at ctools site
• Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology.
  Grimm etal. Science 310(5750): 987- (2005)
• Confronting Surprise. Robert Lempert, Steven Popper, Steven Bankes.
  Soc.Sci.Computer Review 20(4): 420-440 (2002)

Recommended -- pick at least one to read now:

• John Miller. "Active Nonlinear Tests (ANTs) of Complex Simulation Models," Management Science 44(6): 820-30 (June, 1998).
• [#AxtellAllign]] Aligning Simulation Models: A Case Study and Results (1996). Robert Axtell, Robert Axelrod, Joshua M. Epstein, Michael D. Cohen. Computational Mathematical Organization Theory, 1(2), pp. 123-141.
• Selecting Parameters for calibration via sensitivity analysis: An inidividual-based model
  of mosquitofish population dynamics. Beaudouin etal (2008). Ecological Modeling 218: 29-48.
• Di Paolo, Nobe and Bullock. "Simulation Models as Opaque Thought Experiments."
  (Postscript Version or PDF Version at ctools site) Artificial Life VII: The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems,
• A Methodology for performing global uncertainty analysis and sensitivity analysis in systems biology.
  Marino, Simeone etal. J. Theoretical Biology 254: 178-196 (2008).
• Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use.
  Brown, D.G. etal. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(2): 153-174 (2005)
  Note: This addresses some of the difficulties with validation of models of CAS.

Recommended for reading before writing your term project paper

• The ODD Protocol for Describing Individual-Based and Agent-Based Models: A First Update (pdf at ctools site).

Grimm Etal. Ecological Modeling 221: 2760-2768 (2009).

Also scan this longer list of papers on verification, validation and sensitivity analysis you will find useful to read at some point.

Apr 6 Fri

• Open Lab -- and help with term project.

Topics we didn't get to; see Candidate Readings SocSciGISEpid

• Some social science models
• GIS / Social Science Models
• Disease transmission / Social Science models

Apr 11 Wed

• Term Project Presentations
• Presenters (5): Michael H, Scott, Zach, Kyle; Thomas

Apr 13 Fri

• Term Project Presentations
• Presenters (6): Hua Cai; chun-yuen; Jieshi; Jeff L; Carissa.F ; Michael s

Apr 18 Wed 1-3pm -- in lieu of an exam!

• Term Project Presentations
• Presenters (7): Rachana, Ted McC; Kala; Sara; Chang; Jacob; Hui, Nick

Apr 22 Monday

• Term Paper Due

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