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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Decision Making in a Complex World: Using Computer Simulations to Understand Human Behaviour
University of Groningen and University of Warsaw
This course explored the newest developments in modelling decision making. The course provided an introduction in individual decision making, and allowed learners to explore simple agent based models of simulated people exchanging information and following norms. The course concluded with a model representing a real city population voting on the closure of a park for cars.
3 weeks, 2 hours per week
Katarzyna Abramczuk
Assistant Professor
University of Warsaw
Wander Jager
Associate Professor
University of Warsaw
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how humans make decisions, according to classic and more contemporary theories on human decision making from different disciplines: economics, psychology and sociology.
- Explain how the environment and societal clues can shape choices and the other way around.
- Apply a simple algorithm / model describing a decision process in a chosen situation.
- Experiment with different individual decision processes and their impact on the social level.
- Debate the need for accurate representation of individual choice and decision behaviour when analysing social phenomena.
- Identify which human behaviour has been included in a (computational) model.
Syllabus
- The concepts of rationality and utility in human decision making
- Multi attribute decision making: how to make decisions with complex questions and multiple consequences
- Agent Based Modelling: using a modelling approach to understand the interactions between many individuals
- The influence of the social environment on human decision making
- Including habits into the decision making model
- Using Agent Based Modelling to address societal issues
Issued on 25th April 2022
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