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Decision Making in a Complex and Uncertain World
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35 h
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- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on March 7, 2021
- Ends on May 2, 2021
Course details
Syllabus
- Complex Systems
- Fundamental Uncertainty
- Graph Theory and Networks
- Emergent Behaviour
- Agent-Based Modelling
- Evolutionary Dynamics
- Cellular Automata
- Self-Organization
- Path dependence and complexity in History
- Decision making under Uncertainty, Heuristics and Biases
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Stability and Crises
- Growth and Development of Cities
Prerequisite
Anyone who needs to make decisions in a complex and uncertain context (e.g. managers and project coordinators). The course will be taught at undergraduate level. Basic knowledge of economic, financial institutions, mathematics and logic will be helpful.
Instructors
Lex Hoogduin
I am professor at the university of Groningen (Complexity and Uncertainty). I have also a number of supervisory functions and have been advisor to the first president of the European Central Bank.
Editor
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1614 and is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands as well as one of its largest. Since its inception more than 200,000 students have graduated. It is a member of the distinguished international Coimbra Group of European universities.
In April 2013, according to the results of the International Student Barometer, the University of Groningen, for the third time in a row, has been voted the best University of the Netherlands. In 2014 the university celebrated its 400th anniversary.
The University of Groningen has ten faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175 degree programmes.
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