The exercise sheet defines the programme and timeline for the course. You should focus on the exercises and use videos and textbooks to understand how to solve them. Handouts:
This part is a group project, with three mandatory oral presentations in Thursday classes. See the requirements page for coursework details.
| Session 1 (Thursday 5 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
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Key Concept Agent-Based Modelling, Object-Oriented Programming |
Predator and Prey (A popular and generic model) | MPEG4 / OGG | 6:23 | Shiflet & Shiflet page 224+ | |||
| Agent-Based Modelling (The micro-level approach to simulation) | MPEG4 / OGG | 5:38 | clean annotated |
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| The Environment (A world for the agents) | MPEG4 / OGG | 7:34 | clean annotated |
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| Objects versus Agents (The programmer's approach to agent-based models) | MPEG4 / OGG | 8:52 | clean annotated |
Barnes and Kölling pages 326-342. | |||
| Session 2 (Friday 6 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
| Simulation of Gillespie models. To be prepared by Siebe. | |||||||
| Session 3 (Wednesday 11 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
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Key Concept Cellular Automata, Grids |
Cellular Automata (Life on a Grid) | MPEG4 / OGG | 7:39 | Shiflet & Shiflet page 510+ | |||
| Grid Landscapes | MPEG4 / OGG | 8:36 | |||||
| Cells versus Agents (Who is master?) | MPEG4 / OGG | 4:52 | |||||
| Session 4 (Thursday 12 February 2015) | |||||||
| Presentation of group work: Predator/Prey model | |||||||
| Session 5-6 (Friday 13 February and Wednesday 18 February 2015) | |||||||
| No videos. Some ideas on project management will be given in class. We will mainly work on the project. | Some thoughts on project management | ||||||
| Some ideas from SCRUM | |||||||
| Implementing the simulator | |||||||
| Session 7 (Thursday 19 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
| Presentation of group work: Predator/Prey implementation | |||||||
| Session 8 (Friday 20 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
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Key Concept Correlation Coefficient |
Correlation Coefficient (Comparing two Signals) | MPEG4 / OGG | 7:39 | Frisvold and Moe page 240-243 | |||
| Session 9 (Wednesday 25 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
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Key Concept Point Estimator, Confidence Interval, Student's t-distribution Including repetition from Week 4. |
See also separate page on Estimation | ||||||
| Estimation with Unknown Variance (Introduction and Overview) | MPEG4 / OGG | 7:41 | Frisvold and Moe page 151-153 | ||||
| Estimating the Mean from Small Samples (Student's t-distribution) | MPEG4 / OGG | 6:13 | Frisvold and Moe pp. 135-136, 151-153. | ||||
| Estimating the Mean (Exercise Example) | MPEG4 / OGG | 8:39 | |||||
| The Standard Error (The Random Nature of Estimators) | MPEG4 / OGG | 5:10 | Frisvold and Moe page 147 | ||||
| Session 10 (Thursday 26 February 2015) | Videos | Time | Slides | Reading | |||
| Presentation of group work: Predator/Prey analysis | |||||||