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There are three main topics:1. Virtual world concepts • Virtual worlds definitions. • Virtual worlds design: concepts, visualization. • Virtual worlds modelling. • Terrain and landscapes modelling. • Abstract maps modelling. • Agent-based modeling and swarm intelligence for virtual worlds. 2. Virtual world applications. • Virtual worlds as games. • Virtual worlds as a research tool. • Virtual worlds as a public management tool. • Virtual worlds as an industrial management tool. • Virtual worlds as an urban management planning. • Virtual for learning and training purposes. 3. Virtual worlds analysis and optimization. • Social agents influence on landscapes in evolutionary systems. • Dynamic landscapes influence on evolutionary social agents. • Relation between social swarming systems.

Knowledge: • Have knowledge in advanced methods of modeling virtual worlds as ecological, industrial and urban systems. Skills: • Have practice in programming virtual worlds in a game engine. General competence: • Have general competence in possibilities and limitations of using a game engine for simulating virtual worlds. • Have general competence in analyzing, and optimizing virtual worlds. • Have general competence in using virtual worlds in innovation processes.

Lectures, student presentations, project exercises related to a research project or a case, selected by the student. Mandatory hand-in assignments: 1-3 mandatory assignments. All the mandatory assignments have to be approved in order to get access to the exam.