The goals of this lecture: Understand the difference between vertical and horizontal nestedness; Understand that a system can be a context for another system; Understand adaptive cycles from the perspective of system nestedness.

This lecture discuss Chaos and instability. Students should be able to: Define chaos and differentiate it from randomness; Understand pseudo random numbers and their role of in Agent Based Models; Understand model bifurcations; Understand the notion of at

This lecture discuss Chaos and instability. Students should be able to: Define chaos and differentiate it from randomness; Understand pseudo random numbers and their role of in Agent Based Models; Understand model bifurcations; Understand the notion of at