Dynamics of Behaviour
Description
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This course teaches analysis and modelling of the dynamics of behaviour in Artificial, Biological, Cognitive and Social systems. Behavioural dynamics occurs in different forms, contexts and complexity. During the course examples of such behaviour are studied coming from software systems (e.g., knowledge- and agent-based systems), cognition (e.g., the use of beliefs, desires and intentions, complex reasoning tasks) and organisation theory (e.g., organisational change). The dynamics of behaviour of such systems is analysed (including verification and validation), modelled and simulated in this course using different techniques and tools. |
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6pts |
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I & II |
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Announcements
Course
Materials
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Slides |
Additional Material |
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Intro |
Introduction BD |
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A1 |
Variations in Behavioural Complexity: Introduction |
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A2 |
Reactive Behaviour |
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A3 |
Motivation-Based Behaviour |
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A4 |
Adaptive Behaviour |
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B1 |
Analysis of Dynamic Properties of Agent Systems: Introduction |
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B2 |
Co-operating Information Agents |
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B3 |
Requirements Analysis in Design of Agent Systems |
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C1 |
Analysis of the Dynamics of Complex Reasoning Tasks: Introduction |
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C2 |
Analysis of the Dynamics of Diagnostic Reasoning Tasks |
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D1 |
Introduction Organisation Dynamics Part |
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D2 |
Organisational Structure |
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D3 |
Analysis of Organisational Behaviour |
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D4 |
Design of Organisational Structure and Behaviour |
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D5 |
Self-Organisation |
Assignments
Hand in your
answers before Sunday, 24:00!
Your grades
become available in the following week.
The average
result over all the assignments will make up 50% of the final grade, given that
the grade received at the exam is >= 5.0. If it is less than that, the
average end result of the assignments is not taken into account; the final
grade will than be equal to the grade received for the exam.
Each assignment
lists the number of points that can be gained by correctly answering the
various parts of the assignment.
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Week |
Chapter |
Subject |
Download |
Answers |
Grades |
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A1-A2 |
Stimulus-Response Behaviour |
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A2 |
Delayed Response Behaviour |
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A3 |
Motivation-Based Behaviour |
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A4 |
Adaptive Behaviour |
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B2 |
Analysis of Agent Systems |
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B3 |
Requirements Analysis for Design |
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7 |
C2 |
Analysis of Reasoning Tasks |
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D2 |
Organisational Structure |
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9 |
D3 |
Analysis of Organisational Behaviour |
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D4 |
Design of Organisational Structure and Behaviour |
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D5 |
Self-Organisation |
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D1-5 |
Organisation Modelling |
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Participants
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Software
You can set up
the leads-to software on Windows machines at the VU as follows:
Login and
go to MyComputer -> T: -> ai -> projects and doubleclick on
setupltsim.
A number of
icons appear on your desktop. Your working directory will be H:\ltwrk\.
You can also
run the leads-to software on Solaris machines at the VU. You can find the
leads-to software in /usr/local/ai/lt/.
More
information
For more
information, please contact