Lectures on Simulation

This is a series of lectures originally delivered in an EXYSTENCE funded school on Simulation in Complex Systems Science.
The course was organised by Christopher Barrett, from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and took place in Villa Gualino, ISI, Torino, in 2006.

This EXYSTENCE school was organised as an intense workshop with ONCE-CS collaborating to create online courses for a wider audience of students.

The lectures are contributions from leading scientists in complex systems science, covering social, biological and artificial systems. Contributors include: Chris Barrett, Madhav Marathe, Keith Bisset, Stephen Eubank, Luc Steels, David Lightfoot, Peter Schuster, Henning Mortveit, Jeffrey Johnson, George Rzevski, Peter Allen, Alan Penn, Vladimir Batagelj.


Table of contents:

• Simulation Science:Understanding interdependent social and socio-technical systems
• Interaction based computing approach for modelling large dynamical systems
• Modelling and simulation for epidemiology
• Simulation science in engineering and analysis of complex systems
• Language as a complex adaptive system
• Growing a complex system: children's language
• Computational theory of discrete simulations
• Sequential dynamical systems and a theory of computer simulations
• Biomolecular structure and evolution
• Epidemiological modelling for public health
• Comprehensive event characterisation for biological incidents
• The multilevel hyper-network dynamics of complex systems
• Simulation and analysis of large integrated communication systems
• Analysis of large networks
• Designing and engineering complex systems
• Urban and regional systems: models of complexity