Week 1 — Networks and Emergence
Wiki-style notes from the first week of a graduate seminar on network science and emergent behavior.
Wiki-style notes for Week 1 of the Complex Systems Seminar, grouped on the Vault page under “Complex Systems Seminar” alongside other weeks of the same course.
Foundations of agent-based modeling in NetLogo (turtles, patches, links), the mechanics of emergence and feedback loops (traffic jams, the 1975 DC “slugging” phenomenon), Robert Axelrod’s framing of simulation as a “third way” of science, strategic indicators for when to deploy ABM over equation-based models, and a walkthrough of the “Heroes and Cowards” model as a case study in emergent pattern formation.