The public’s rejection of recycled water has seriously hindered the promotion water. Individual intention and decision-making behavior will be affected by group behavior. To clarify interaction mechanism to reuse from perspective decision-making, this study used an eye-movement experiment with a consumption scenario simulation obtain influencing factors data related purchase decisions ABM (agen...

My thesis work combines AI, programming language design, and software engineering. I am integrating reinforcement learning (RL) into a programming language so that the language achieves three primary goals: accessibility, adaptivity, and modularity. My language, AFABL (A Friendly Adaptive Behavior Language), will be an agent programming language designed to be accessible to nonprogramming exper...

We introduce a design-based research framework, learning axes and bridging tools, and demonstrate its application in the preparation and study of an implementation of a middle-school experimental computer-based unit on probability and statistics, ProbLab (Probability Laboratory, Abrahamson and Wilensky 2002 [Abrahamson, D., & Wilensky, U. (2002). ProbLab. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL: ...

While agent-based models (ABMs) are becoming increasingly popular for simulating complex and emergent phenomena in many fields, understanding and analyzing ABMs poses considerable challenges. ABM behavior often depends on many model parameters, and the task of exploring a model’s parameter space and discovering the impact of different parameter settings can be difficult and time-consuming. Exha...

The design change propagation in a complex product is characteristic of nonlinear, dynamic, and uncertain; its impact analysis becomes challenging. Furthermore, the multiple changes occurring concurrently during the whole design process increase the difficulty of the change propagation analysis. In this article, a new change propagation prediction method based on multi-agent system, especially ...

Dynamic traffic signal control in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) recently has received increasing attention. This paper proposed an adaptive and cooperative multi-agentfuzzy system for a decentralized traffic signal control. The proposed model has three levels of control, the current intersection traffic situation, its neighboring intersections recommendations and a knowledge base, whi...

The growing importance of links between the social and technical dimensions of the electricity infrastructure mean that many research problems cannot be effectively addressed without joint consideration of social and technical dynamics. This paper motivates the need for and introduces a tool to facilitate the development of linked social and technical models of electric power systems. The tool,...

In this paper, we describe five design principles that governed the design of the Connected Chemistry Curriculum and describe classroom research we conducted to evaluate the design. In the Modeling Across the Curriculum (MAC) project, high-school students explore computer models in science that are embedded in a supporting script. The Connected Chemistry curriculum focuses on topics in chemistr...