Computer Science and Systems Engineering

This course provides an overview on the theories of contact and fracture mechanics relevant for a wide range of disciplines ranging from materials science to engineering. Introducing their theoretical foundations, the physical aspects of the resulting nonlinearities induced by such phenomena are emphasized. Numerical methods (FEM, BEM) for their approximate solution are also presented together with a series of applications to real case studies.

Teaching contents:

1. The economy of the intangibles
2. Manufacturing and robot
3. Strategy and business model
4. How to model a business
5. How to model a business in a complex scenario
6. What make market emerging? Not only new lands.
7. The Blockchain technology and the future
8. Initial Coins Offering (ICO) compressed between Business plan and White paper
9. Possible value of Blockchain technology for Small and medium Italian sized business
10. A global value chain approach to protect and foster strategic identity 

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This course offers an introduction to stochastic processes as a practical modelling tool for the quantitative analysis of systems. It covers the fundamentals of Markov chains, and presents algorithms and state-of-the-art software applications and libraries for their numerical solution and simulation. The class of Markov Population Processes is presented, with its most notable applications to as diverse disciplines as chemistry, ecology, systems biology, health care, computer networking, and electrical engineering.

This course will cover a selected advanced topic in control, identification, or dynamical optimization. Prerequisites: Linear algebra and matrix computation, calculus and mathematical analysis, control systems, numerical optimization.

This course will be organized as series of reading groups or specialized seminars by members or collaborators of the research unit on System Modelling and Analisys (SysMA).

The course is organized as a set of seminars and lectures delivered by IMT Professors and by invited recognized international experts. It covers advanced topics of computational mechanics

Mean field and master equations.
Percolation and epidemic models.
Contagion: the case of financial networks.
Applications of network theory.
Lecture 1: Master equations for network models
Lecture 2: Fitness and relevance models
Lecture 3: Epidemic processes in mean fiels
Lecture 4: Epidemics on networks
Lecture 5: Scaling and percolation on networks
Lecture 6: Contagion in financial network I
Lecture 7: Contagion in financial network II
Lecture 8: Game theory on networks
Lecture 9: Evolutionary network games

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