Please note that most of this material is deprecated. We strongly advise the reader to examine instead the more refined, extensive and better-structured material associated with ongoing MIT course 15.879. This other course includes a systematic introduction to using AnyLogic for Agent-Based Modeling, including hands-on lectures, tutorials, in-class exercises; however, the bootcamp does not cover System Dynamics and Decision Analysis integration material included here. For basic Agent-Based Modeling material, we strongly advise that the reader refer to the material for the MIT course rather than that included below.
This page gives links to slides and video and audio recordings offered as part of a full-semester University of Saskatchewan course on health modeling using AnyLogic, held January-April 2011. This course placed the greatest emphasis on agent-based modeling, but also offered significant amounts of instruction related to System Dynamics and Discrete Event ("Network-Based") modeling. This class was designed to be suitable for those from health science background, and includes tutorials to cover essentials of programming & software engineering, including concepts, syntax, and semantics of Java for AnyLogic users.
The tables below give links to the slides & recordings from the class. I apologize for the limited audio & video quality for these recordings, but hope you will still find them of value. Please note that because different lectures concentrate on different types of modeling (Agent-Based [ABM], Discrete Event Modeling [DES], and System Dynamics [SD] modeling), we have indicated the type of modeling emphasized in each lecture and tutorial using the associated acronyms.
Lecture Title & Link to Slides | Lecture Audio or Video | Notes |
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Classes, Objects and References | Recording | ABM |
Java Expressions with Statistics, Datasets, UI Widgets and Agent Parameters.avi | Recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Anylogic and Java | Recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Functions and Functional Abstraction | No recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Java Events, Types, and Enums | Recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Java Expressions and Statements | Recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Subscripting in Vensim | Recording | SD |
Subscripting in Vensim 2 -- Introducing, Progressing between, Mapping and Creating Subranges of Subscripts | Recording | SD |
Dimensional Reasoning and Dimensional Homogeneity Testing | Recording | SD, but some applicability to many types of modeling |
Subtyping and Subclassing, A Brief Glimpse | Recording | AnyLogic general, with concentration on ABM |
Material from other lectures and tutorials outside of the scope of this course can be accessed here. Additional coverage of much of the above material will also be found in the August 2011 Agent-Based Modeling Bootcamp for Health Researchers.
I have placed this information online in hopes that it will be of useful to a broader set of people. Users are welcome to distribute links to this page without restriction. I grant rights of non-commercial reuse (including reposting) of the material I have created for educational purposes, as long as it doesn't conflict with the rights of any other individuals.
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