ANT 502E - Complex Adaptive Systems

Course Objectives

1. To illustrate the relationship between ecosystem and cultural systems,
2. To identify the dynamics and mechanisms of interaction,
3. To examine the adaptation processes and feedback mechanisms.

Course Description

This course focuses on; Mathematical Expressions of Complexity, Networks, Emergence and Strategies, Learning and Reward, Adaptation in Complex Systems, Chaos and Chaotic Systems, Social Dynamics: Cycles and Networks, Variation, Procedures and Automata, Decision-Making Mechanisms, Metaphors, Innovations, Synthesis and Modelling.