The erosion of The Loess Plateau could be regarded as one kind of representations of the huge complex system, which is the landform of topography. The complexity of the process is well reflected in an idealized nonlinear system called Cellular Automaton (CA) which is quite sensitive of the initialization and it may lead to an inestimable result just because of tiny differences of the initial se...

Swarm robotics is an innovative approach to the control and coordination of a large number of multi-agent systems that use naturally inspired swarm intelligent methods to perform a task through emergent behaviors. A swarm based approach can decrease the complexity and the cost of designing a cooperative multi-robot system. This paper proposes a general engineering approach to develop a robotic ...

In this qualitative study, I investigated the form of interaction when learners co-constructed computational thinking practices in an informal setting. This study focuses on roles five youth, three adult mentors, and a facilitator during summer camp documents how interacted to exchange ideas, collaborate, accommodate other perspectives. Participants used questions that promote deep engage inter...

We present autonomous agents that are designed without encoding strategies or knowledge of the environment in the agent. The design approach focuses on the notion of sensorimotor patterns of interaction between the agent and the environment rather than separating perception from action. The agent’s motivational system is also interaction-centered in that the agent has inborn proclivities to ena...

Replication is essential in science and agent-based computational social science is no exception. We present results from a replication of the Sugarscape model (Eptstein and Axtell, 1996) as initially presented in Growing Artificial Societies (GAS ). Sugarscape is a classic agent-based model and contemporary simulation toolkits usually only have a partial replication consisting of a few core mo...

This study applied multi agent simulation to investigate the impact of farm credit (an agricultural land-use change adaptation strategy) on farm household livelihood. General household and land use data were obtained from 186 sampled household. Two household types were identified; the first household type was better-off in terms of land area cultivated and income generated from rain-fed rice. O...

The research was motivated by the growing importance of visitor management in protected areas, which can be based on knowledge management, system modelling processes and phenomena, a deeper experience visitors connection with concept psychological carrying capacity. work builds previous publications authors, focused optimization tourism impacts, development theory applicability It emphasizes ov...

Rapid international migration of significant populations generates profound implications for countries in West Asia, Europe, and other regions. The motivation this work is to develop an agent-based model (ABM) capture the existence such migrant refugee flows, explore effects these flows on urban dynamics. Advances modelling have led theoretically-grounded spatial agent models dynamics, capturin...

How can we characterize the ways in which students explore computer models to find needed information? Do the types of goals that guide their exploration affect these characteristics? Is the path of exploration affected by the model’s interface tools? By the kinds of mathematical relationships governing the model’s target phenomenon? In the Modeling Across the Curriculum project, we enable stud...

Abstract Diseases such as COVID-19 that quickly spread through social contact where Infections remain undetected for long pose new kinds of challenges. Traditional epidemic models when applied to not only give highly alarmist predictions but also fail indicate any way target interventions. The do factor structure/context/dynamics.. To address this challenge we propose a novel Social Infection A...