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Course date
July 7–18, 2008
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

The summer course is aimed at providing state-of-the-art cutting-edge scientific and research-oriented training for junior faculty, young researchers, postdoctoral fellows, MA and Ph.D. students, and professionals from European and overseas universities and research institutes on complex systems and social simulations.

The term Complex Systems (CSS) denotes an interdisciplinary research methodology currently successful in the social sciences and elsewhere. CS research originated from physics and nonlinear systems some decades ago but its models have soon permeated such distant fields as economy, political science, or more recently sociology. As implied by the name, a CS is essentially a system of many complicated interactions. Complex Systems methodology has developed sophisticated yet well-understood tools to cope with this challenge. In social systems, the essence of CS is the characterization of the distributed dynamics of how the interaction of many actors and variables leads to predictable phenomena, which often involve hierarchy, emergence, dynamic structures, and large-scale transitions.

Each day in the course focuses on one tool of this encompassing methodology. CS methods include various mathematical models (nonlinear systems, networks, statistical approaches), and computer simulations (e.g. systems dynamics, agent-based modeling). CS simulations are highly computation intensive and pose problems of supercomputing and parallelization.

The CSSS course offers lectures, tutorials, and discussions on the whole spectrum of the above. Lectures are from leading experts, specifically focusing on CS concepts, modeling, and (social) simulation, followed by discussion.

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