Mark Lake
Institute of Archeology, University College of London
mark.lake@ucl.ac.uk

Mark's lectures and materials can be found at http://rinyo.arch.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmar/qmdaa/ so these brief notes aren't that much useful.

Clarke 1972

System models use algorithms and sequences of conditional operations.

Simulation studies the progress or outcome of a process that has an analogue in the modern world.

1. Tactical
   • cultural genetics are “horizontally” transmitted
2. Hypothesis testing
3. Heuristic, Theory building
   1. Validation
   2. Sensitivity analysis to parameters
   3. Experimentation

How do agents choose to reproduce themselves?

How long do agents live?

What about the time dimension?