Although much of mathematics is algorithmic in nature, the skills needed to formulate and solve algorithmic problems do not form an integral part of mathematics education. In particular, logic, which is central to algorithm development, is rarely taught explicitly at preuniversity level, under the justification that it is implicit in mathematics and therefore does not need to be taught as an in...

Résumé. L’innovation est définie comme une “idée, une pratique ou un objet perçu comme étant nouveau par un individu ou une unité d’adoption”( [ROG03],p.12, traduit par nous). “La diffusion est le processus par lequel une innovation est communiquée à travers certains canaux, dans le temps et parmi les membres d’un système social donné ”( [ROG05], p.5, traduit par nous). Pour étudier le phénomèn...

This paper explores how the RepTools toolkit was appropriated in two different classroom cultures. The RepTools toolkit consists of hypermedia about a complex system, physical models, and NetLogo simulations, designed to help students understand complex systems in the context of aquarium ecosystem. This paper reports on the nature of the different enactments of two teachers using the same tools...

In the field of agent-based modeling (ABM), visualizations play an important role in identifying, communicating and understanding important behavior of the modeled phenomenon. However, many modelers tend to create ineffective visualizations of Agent Based Models (ABM) due to lack of experience with visual design. This paper provides ABM visualization design guidelines in order to improve visual...

The rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs technology opens many new application areas. One these applications is remote monitoring for living entities (Humans or Animals) within a known area safety and protection purposes. are programmable to carry missions according specified algorithm. Their ability movements actions provide solutions with reasonable cost. However, how set doing ...

Knowledge sharing in organizations, especially the impact of sharing freely versus not sharing, was studied using game theoretic analysis and a Netlogo agent-based simulation model. In both analyses, some agents hoarded knowledge while others shared knowledge freely. As expected, sharing was found to greatly increase the overall amount of knowledge within the organization. Unexpectedly, on aver...

Humans are going to delegate the rights of driving to the autonomous vehicles in near future. However, to fulfill this complicated task, there is a need for a mechanism, which enforces the autonomous vehicles to obey the road and social rules that have been practiced by well-behaved drivers. This task can be achieved by introducing social norms compliance mechanism in the autonomous vehicles. T...

This snapshot is intended as an illustration of some ways that computational modeling can help one engage with and extend pragmatically complex applied mathematical problems. Specifically, I explore Coombs unfolding technique (1950), a mathematical method used in psychometrics to analyze individual and collective preferences toward some topic of interest. Coombs unfolding works well when used o...

Solid waste management is one of the existing challenges in urban areas and it is becoming a critical issue due to rapid increase in population. Appropriate solid waste management systems are important for improving the environment and the well-being of residents. In this paper, an Internet of Things(IoT) architecture for real time waste monitoring and collection has been proposed; able to impr...

This paper considers the problem of trade-off between including theoretically required elements against excluding irrelevant levels of complexity, one difficult dilemma that all ABSS practitioners must cope with. Social scientists finds hard to code even the most simple artificial societies, while they are expected to consider all kind of social complexity. It is argued that there exists hetero...