COMPLEXITY SCIENCE (DASCI 270)
Complex Systems are systems composed of heterogeneous agents that are highly interacting and whose interactions result in emergent behavior, e.g., societies, economies, markets, cities, and biological systems like the immune system and the brain, to list a few. The students will be exposed to various tools used in characterizing and modeling complex systems in this class. The topics include dynamical systems, chaos, fractals, self-organization, cellular-automata modeling, agent-based modeling, and complex networks.