Modelling Human Behaviour with BDI Agents by Emma Jane Norling Chairperson of Supervisory Committee: Professor Liz Sonenberg Although the BDI framework was not designed for human modelling applications, it has been used with considerable success in this area. The work presented here examines some of these applications to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the use of BDI-based frameworks f...

Research on the interactions between human behaviour and ecological systems tends to focus on the direct effects of human activities on ecosystems, such as biodiversity loss. There is also increasing research effort directed towards ecosystem services. However, interventions to control people's use of the environment alter the incentives that natural resource users face, and therefore their dec...

In recent years there has been an increased interest in the modelling and recognition of human activities involving highly structured and semantically rich behaviour such as dance, aerobics, and sign language. A novel approach is presented for automatically acquiring stochastic models of the high-level structure of an activity without the assumption of any prior knowledge. The process involves ...

As a central theme, for the purpose of appraisal, may be taken Petting. Its technique varies. It may be simple kissing, deep kissing (French kissing) breast stimulation, mouth-breast contact, manual stimulation of female genitalia, manual stimulation of male geni' talia, oral contact with female genitalia, oral contact with male genitalia and genital apposition. These foibles of female urges an...

In this research work, a practical new hybrid model to predictthe successful growth cycle of Spirulina platensis was proposed. Themodel was based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) in combina-tion with support vector machines (SVM). This optimization mecha-nism involved kernel parameter setting in the SVM training procedure,which significantly influences the regression...

In this research, behaviour of clayey soils under triaxial loading is studied using Neural Network. The models have been prepared to predict the stress-strain behaviour of remolded clays under undrained condition. The advantage of the model developed is that simple parameters such as physical characteristics of soils like water content, fine content, Atterberg limits and so on, are used to mode...

in this paper, we introduce fractional order of a planar fractional prey-predator system with a nonmonotonic functional response and anti-predator behaviour such that the adult preys can attack vulnerable predators. we analyze the existence and stability of all possibleequilibria. numerical simulations reveal that anti-predator behaviour notonly makes the coexistence of the prey and predator po...

We review the human literature examining the effects of neurological insult on human sexual behaviour. We provide a synthesis of the findings to date, and identify key brain regions associated with specific aspects of human sexual behaviour. These include subcortical and cortical regions, with the mesial temporal lobe and the amygdala in particular being a crucial structure in the mediation of ...

Understanding the mechanisms and processes underlying the dynamics of collective violence is of considerable current interest. Recent studies indicated the presence of robust patterns characterizing the size and timing of violent events in human conflicts. Since the size and timing of violent events arises as the result of a dynamical process, we explore the possibility of unifying these observ...