Lectures Grouped by Semester

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Lecture Z2 (2023-04-25): Final Exam Review

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In this lecture, we review topics that might be covered on the Spring 2023 final exam of SOS 220 (Systems Thinking). This involves going bac...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Lecture J1 (2023-04-20): Taking a Resilience Approach for Sustainability

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In this lecture, we wrap up the course by connecting the networking thinking from the previous unit to the resilience thinking introduced ea...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Lecture I1 (2023-04-17): Network Science and Applications

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In this lecture, we finish up our discussion of the Hawk–Dove (chicken) model as a game-theoretic exploration of commons/common-pool resourc...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Lecture H3 (2023-04-13): Game Theoretic Models of Social Interactions, Part 2

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In this lecture, we review the classic "Prisoner's Dilemma" game-theoretic model of the challenges of cooperation in a world o...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Lecture H2 (2023-04-11): Game Theoretic Models of Social Interactions, Part 1

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In this lecture, we review the key results from the computational tournaments run by Robert Axelrod on the iterated/repeated Prisoner's ...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Lecture H1 (2023-04-06): Computational Social Simulation

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In this lecture, we discuss topics related to "Prospects of Computer Modeling" by Mitchell (2009, Chapter 14). We start with a dis...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Lecture G5 (2023-04-05): Identifying Information in Living Systems, Part 2

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In this lecture, we continue to discuss the different ways to search for and process information from the environment in distributed archite...