Friday 12 October 2012

PhD course/workshop: Agent based simulation of human behaviour


November 5-9 2012

Hans Skov-Petersen (HSP) – hsp@life.ku.dk
Martin Rudbeck Jepsen (MRJ) - mrj@geo.ku.dk
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
University of Copenhagen

The aim of the course/workshop is to introduce challenges and principles of agent-based simulation of human behaviour and to provide participants with basic skills to author models using the open source toolkit Netlogo (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/).

Participants should bring their own PC/MAC. Netlogo should be preinstalled before the workshop. To make a head start participants should go through Tutorials #1-3 athttp://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/ (listed in the left hand panel) before the session.

The course includes
-       generic presentations of the background of ABM’s
-       presentation of case studies where ABM’s have been applied
-       hands-on exercises
-       presentation/discussion of participants own modelling needs and ideas

For PhD students the course will include preparation of a 4-5 page manuscript relating the topics of the course to their own study project (it should include a brief, but running, Netlogo model). The manuscript should be handed in not later than 2 month after the event. For the full course – including an accepted manuscript - 5 ECTS will be granted.


Tentative programme


Monday
November 5
Tuesday
November 6
Wednesday
November 7
Thursday
November 8
Friday
November 9
Morning
Course introduction (HSP and MRJ)

Introduction to ABM (MRJ)

Introduction to NetLogo (MRJ)

Exercise 0 (MRJ): A glimpse of NetLogo MRJ)
Simulation human behaviour in Urban settings (BIJ)
Data requirements to ABM’s of human movement (HSP)

Simulation of recreational behaviour
Simulating deforestation in ancient Island (NTR)

Exploring Agent-Based Modelling technique for cycle track modelling (GY)

Exercise 4: Import and application of GIS data in NetLogo (HSP, NTR)
Workshop on participants own models
Afternoon
Components of an ABM (HSP)

Exercise 1: The sheep/grazing model (MRJ)
Social networks (MRJ)

Exercise 2: Modelling social networks (MRJ)

Exercise 3: Way finding in urban settings
Workshop on participants own models
Workshop on participants own models

Course evaluation and wrap up

Additional presenters:
Nikola Trbojevic (NTR)
University of Iceland,
Reykjavík, Iceland.

Bin Jiang (BIJ)
Division of Geomatics, KTH Research School
Department of Technology and Built Environment
University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden

Godwin Yeboah (GY)
Built and Natural Environment, 
Faculty of Engineering and Environment,
Northumbria University at Newcastle,
NE1 8ST Newcastle upon Tyne,
United Kingdome

(More can be added…)

Venue:

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
University of Copenhagen
Rolighedsvej 23
1958 Frederiksberg
Denmark


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