Adaptive governance and resilience in complex systems
ICSP • 2026
Schelling segregation model demonstrates how individual mild preferences can lead to extreme unintended collective outcomes, such as urban segregation.
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Hertie School of Governance • 2026
This course bridges agent-based modeling and Bayesian statistical inference, providing participants with cutting-edge tools to model, calibrate, and analyze complex systems. Designed for policy analysts, economists, quantitative researchers, and data scientists, the course emphasizes practical implementation using Python-based OOP while maintaining theoretical rigor.
Prisoner's Dilemma is a fundamental model in game theory that illustrates why two rational individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so.
The society is not a machine, but an ecology. Policy design must account for the emergent, adaptive, and interconnected nature of social systems.
