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CSCS 530 Syllabus - March

Note on links below to articles:

Note that some of the links below are to articles in online versions of journals, and as such, they may only be accessible via Mirlyn (or mirlyn proxy) connections. Some of the links are to the ctools sites. However, if you find links that are broken, please let me know and I'll fix them ASAP. (If you can find and send me the correct link, that would be most helpful!)

Note that papers that have broken ctools links are almost certainly in the ctools-resources section--its just the link that is broke. So if you want to get the paper right away, just go to ctools and look for it. However, please also send me a msg so i can fix the link!

Mar 1 Fri

Term Project Proposal and Short Paper Due.

  • Project1 Demos -- add your demo commands.parameters here!
  • Project #1 Writeup Due.

green% spring break, mar 2 - 11

Mar 13 Wed

Class canceled - move content back one class.

Mar 14 Wed

Running experiments with (gs)drone; notes on analysis of results

Handouts: (TBD)

We have to finish a couple of demos, too.

Assignment:

Mar 16 Fri

Cultural diffusion models

We will start with Axelrod's extremely simple model, then read some papers that extend it in various ways or that look at the same underlying mechanisms from different perspectives (e.g. using the tools and approach of statistical mechanics).

Discussion Leaders: Scott; Hua Cai; Zach

Required Readings

Optional Readings

  • There are other papers on this page of Cultural Diffusion Candidate Readings that you may find interesting and/or instructive; try to make time to at least read the abstracts and scan the introduction and discussion sections of these, and if you can read at least one more carefully and summarize it and your thoughts about in the ctools forum item for this day.

Mar 21 Wed

Representing Agent Decision Making

How simple or how smart should your agents be? These parts discuss that, as well as survey some different ways to represent decision processes in animals from bugs to humans.

Discussion Leaders: Michael ; Hui Xu; Sara, Kala

Required

Optional
As for last (and future classes), try to make time to at least read the abstracts and scan the introduction and discussion sections of these, and if you can read at least one more carefully and summarize it and your thoughts about in the ctools forum item for this day.

This next one compares a "rational" (linear programming) procedure with a heuristic (decision tree) procedure and finds there are significant differences in outcome:

Mar 23 Fri

El Farol Bar Problem; Minority Game

Discussion Leaders: Rachana, Ted McC, Kyle

Note the Minority Game is some physicists' approach to the Bar Problem, which started a whole cottage industry of Minority Game papers (part of the broader EconPhysics approach). Its worth considering (1) why its died down and (2) what effect it had, if any, on the social sciences.

Required Readings:

  • Casti, John -- "Seeing the Light at the El Farol," Complexity, v1, pp 7-10 (1996). See the copy at Attach:Casti-SeeingLight.pdf.
  • Brian Arthur. "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality." American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 84,406-411, 1994. Online here.
  • Challet and Zhang. "Emergence of Cooperation and Organization in an Evolutionary Game." Physica A 246, p407. Online at: http://arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9708006.
  • Shubik: El Farol Revisited: A Note on Emergence, Game Theory and Society. Complexity Online Jan 2011
  • Note: I may make one or two more readings required.

Optional Readings:

  • See El Farol Candidate Readings.
  • Fogel etal. "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality Reconsidered." IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation , vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 142-146, July. 1999. You may want to just scan this: The important things to note are (a) it shows one way to fully define an El Farol-like model (lacking in Arthur's original paper), and (b) its outcomes are at odds with Arthur's claims, and its worth thinking about why, and what that means for Arthur's original claim (if anything!). This paper uses a GA to model "learning in an agent's head", so its relevant to the readings on Evolutionary Algorihms, too.

Google code project hosting and SVN: introduction

Mar 28 Wed

Evolutionary Algorithms

Discussion Leaders: Hua Cai; Chun-yuen, Jeff L

Required Readings:

This one you may have read under the El Farol Readings -- if not, read now:

  • Fogel etal. "Inductive Reasoning and Bounded Rationality Reconsidered." IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation , vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 142-146, July. 1999. The important things to note are (a) it shows one way to fully define an El Farol-like model (lacking in Arthur's original paper), and (b) its outcomes are at odds with Arthur's claims, and its worth thinking about why, and what that means for Arthur's original claim (if anything!).

Demos (Suggest more if you know of good ones):

Optional Readings:

We will read this one about the ANT system with other Validation papers.

Mar 30 Fri

Open Lab Day -- work on term project!

Note Project #2 - Milestone Due Sunday 1 April

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