• MonashU
• ECC3855ComputationalEconomics
• Project2008

Schedule for Monday

Resources

Looking to form a wiki to get your work coordinated?

• I mentioned bluewiki on Friday... here it is (you can start a free WikiPedia-type (MediaWiki) wiki to organise your project .. why not try it?!):

  • http://bluwiki.com/go/Main_Page

The Process

1. Form into a group of 2
2. Come up with an interesting economic scenario
   • Discuss it with Simon
3. What is your research question? (just have one, we don't have long)
4. Why is it interesting?

5. Why is this a modelling problem (where is the interplay)?

6. What basic elements do you need to get things happening?
7. Do you have some data to verify your model, or perhaps some expected behaviour that it should minimally perform?
8. Start writing a simple model

Assessment

• From the email:

   (o. You'll form into groups of TWO)
   i. Email (to simon.angus@buseco.monash.edu.au) your group's (1 per group)
   .nlogo file (with procedures and notes etc.) by
  
                     >>> 5pm, Friday 17 October 2008 <<<
  
   ii. Presentation (10min) of your model and outcomes on [DATE TBA] (we'll
   talk about it during the teaching part).

What am I looking for?

1. Initial premise: you don't have much time... so:

2. Thinking over actual results

   • Which phenomenon you have chosen and why
   • What your research question was
   • What you thought were the basic elements

3. Though results would be nice! ...

   • Do they look reasonable?
   • Do you have a grasp of how the parameters affect the results?
4. Ideas for improvements, where to go next etc.
5. Presentation

Marking key:

Presentations

Suggestion

• 2-5pm, Monday 12 October 2008

  • Pros:
    1. Get some feedback before you hand in your project on the Friday
    2. Signals that the presentation doesn't need to be super 'schmick'! .. work in progress etc. is OK -- but good to explain your thinking and where you are up to (I'm expecting most to show us your model in NL and give some example behaviours);
    3. Gets it over with
  • Cons:
    1. Possible clashes with other assessments

Questions?

Library

1. Jing Leong has my book Complexity' (Lewin)

Groups

Partner Market

• If you are not yet in a group (you have an information problem, since you don't know who is also looking for a group), then please let me know and I might be able to help facilitate through this open market (and so provide the information you need, see):

Looking to form a group

• ...

Files

The afternoon project

• afternoon coding project, produced by the group, written by Simon

The base file

• Basic Netlogo Project file v.0.2

• Basic Netlogo Project file v.0.1