Computational Modeling
Fall 2005

For today, you should have:

1) done HomeworkNine


Today's outline:

0) we should have an exam one of these days

1) one more discussion of modeling

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_wave_duality

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentalism

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism

2) results from your experiments on random graphs

3) introduction to cellular automata

   Starting in on HomeworkTen.


For next time you should:

1) do HomeworkTen



Next couple of modules
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Cellular automata, sparse matrix representation, randomness.

Self-organized criticality, sand pile models.

Long-tailed distributions, scale-free networks.

Tipping point, segregation models, starlogo.

Emergence, sugarscape, flock behavior.