Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Definitions of system thinking; complexity, adaptation; and socio- technical systems; Understanding complex adaptive systems; and the properties that characterize it; Put in perspective commonly applied modelling approaches in policy analysis with the framework of complex adaptive systems; A framework for modelling complex adaptive systems; agent based modelling; Practice-oriented steps to building an agent-based model for a policy problem of your choice –problem formulation, concept formulation, model formulations, verification and validation.