Administrivia
Instructor Maarten Sierhuis
Email: sierhuis@sims.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Friday 1:00pm-3:00pm 303B South Hall
TA Charis Kaskiris
Email: kaskiris@sims.berkeley.edu
Course Description
Course Information
Course Dates: January 21 to May 6, 2005
Lecture Schedule: Friday 9:00am-12:00pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Text
Available at CopyCentral
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Grading Criteria
33% 3 Assignments evaluated on an 1 - 5 scale
66% Final Project evaluated on an 1 - 5 scale (projects can be up to 2 students)
No late assignments
Course Work
January 21 : Friday
Required Readings
" Knowledge Engineering Basics " G. Schreiber , H. Akkermans and et al. [Reader, Chapter 2 ]
Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology (1999)
"The Task and Its Organizational Context" G. Schreiber , H. Akkermans and et al. [Reader, Chapter 3]
Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology (1999)
"A Language of Work" H. Beyer and K. Holtzblatt [Reader, Chapter 5]
Contectual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (1988)
"Work Models" H. Beyer and K. Holtzblatt [Reader, Chapter 6]
Contectual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (1988)
"What is a model?" R. Aris [Reader, Chapter 1]
Mathematical Modeling Techniques (1994)
"UML Notations Used in CommonKADS" G. Schreiber , H. Akkermans and et al. [Reader, Chapter 14]
Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology
Resources
Due on February 4
Due on February 25
January 28 : Friday
Approaches for Modeling Human Behavior
Required Readings
"Simulating Work Practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design. " University of Amsterdam [Online]
SIKS Dissertation Series No. 2001-10
"APOLLO 12 ALSEP Deployment: A Collection of Mission Specific Data for the Purpose of Modeling and Simulating the ALSEP Deployment Work Practice" M. Sierhuis [Online]
RIACS: 36 (1999)
"Case Study 1: Apollo 12 ALSEP Offload" M. Sierhuis [Online, Chapter 6]
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design (2001)
"Interlocked behaviors and organizing" K. E. Weick [Reader, Chapter 4]
The Social Psychology of Organizing (1979)
"Architectural design support for business process and business network engineering" M. F. Henry, Rene Bal and et al. [Online]
International Journal of Services Technology and Management 1(1): 1-44 (2000)
Resources
Lecture 2
February 4 : Friday
Required Readings
"APOLLO 12 ALSEP Deployment: A Collection of Mission Specific Data for the Purpose of Modeling and Simulating the ALSEP Deployment Work Practice" M. Sierhuis [Online]
RIACS: 36 (1999)
"Case Study 1: Apollo 12 ALSEP Offload" M. Sierhuis [Online, Chapter 6]
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design (2001)
"Knowledge Model Components" G. Schreiber , H. Akkermans and et al. [Reader, Chapter 5]
Knowledge Engineering and Management: The CommonKADS Methodology (1999)
"Knowledge, Practice, Activities, and People" M. Sierhuis and W. J. Clancey [Reader, 142-148]
Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Management (1997)
Resources
Lecture 3
Due on February 25
February 11 : Friday
Required Readings
"From Technical Rationality to Reflection-in-Action" D. A. Schön [Reader, Chapter 2]
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (1982)
"Understanding and Being" T. Winograd and F. Flores [Reader, Chapter 3]
Understanding Computers and Cognition (1986)
"Towards a new orientation" T. Winograd and F. Flores [Reader, Chapter 6]
Understanding Computers and Cognition (1986)
"Situated Action" L. A. Suchman [Reader, Chapter 4]
Plans and Situated Action: The Problem of Human Machine Communication (1987)
"How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds" E. Hutchins [Online, 265-288]
Cognitive Science 19
"Tool and Symbol in Child Development" L. S. Vygotsky [Reader, Chapter 1]
Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes (1978)
"Theory of Modeling Work Practice" M. Sierhuis [Online, Chapter 3]
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design
"Modeling and Simulating Work Practice: A human-centered method for work systems design" M. Sierhuis and W. J. Clancey [Online]
IEEE Intelligent Systems Volume 17(5)(Special Issue on Human-Centered Computing (2002)
Resources
Lecture 4
February 18 : Friday
Required Readings
"APOLLO 12 ALSEP Deployment: A Collection of Mission Specific Data for the Purpose of Modeling and Simulating the ALSEP Deployment Work Practice" M. Sierhuis [Online]
RIACS: 36 (1999)
"Case Study 1: Apollo 12 ALSEP Offload" M. Sierhuis [Online, Chapter 6]
Modeling and Simulating Work Practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design (2001)
"Activity Theory as a Potential Framework for Human-Computer Interaction Research" K. Kuutti [Reader, Chapter 2, 17-44]
Activity theory as a potential framework for human-computer interaction research. Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (1996)
"Simulating Activities: Relating Motives, Deliberation, and Attentive Coordination" W. J. Clancey [Online, 471-499]
Cognitive Systems Research 3(3)
"Activity theory as a framework for analyzing and redesigning work" Y. Engestörm [Online, 960]
Ergonomics 43(7) (2000)
Resources
Lecture 5
February 25 : Friday
Required Readings
"Brahms: A multiagent modeling environment for simulating work practice in organizations (Submitted)" M. Sierhuis, W. J. Clancey and et al. [Online]
Journal for Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory: The Netherlands Special issue on Simulating Organisational Processes
Resources
Lecture 6
Due on March 11
March 4 : Friday
Required Readings
"Introduction to System Modeling Concepts" B. P. Zeigler, H. Praehofer and et al. [Reader, Chapter 1]
Theory of Modeling and Simulation (2000)
"Framework for Modeling and Simulation" B. P. Zeigler, H. Praehofer and et al. [Reader, Chapter 2]
Theory of Modeling and Simulation (2000)
"Modeling Formalisms and Their Simulators" B. P. Zeigler, H. Praehofer and et al. [Reader, Chapter 3]
Theory of Modeling and Simulation (2000)
Resources
Lecture 7
March 11 : Friday
March 18 : Friday
Required Readings
"Field Science Ethnography: Methods for Systematic Observation on an Expedition" W. J. Clancey [Online, 223-243]
Field Methods 13(3) (2001)
"Observation of Work Practices in Natural Settings (In Revision)" W. J. Clancey [Reader]
Cambridge Handbook on Expertise and Expert Performance (to be published)
"Welcome Aboare" E. Hutchins [Reader, Chapter 1]
Cognition in the Wild (1995)
"Principles of Contextual Inquir" H. Beyer and K. Holtzblatt [Reader, Chapter 3]
Contectual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems (1988)
Resources
Lecture 9
April 29 : Friday
Required Readings
"Modeling and Simulation for Mission Operations Work System Design" M. Sierhuis, W. J. Clancey and et al. [Online, 85-129]
Journal of Management Information Systems Vol. 19 (No. 4) (2003)
"Multi-agent Modeling and Simulation Approach for Design and Analysis of MER Mission Operations" Seah Chin, M. Sierhuis and et al. [Online]
2005 International Conference on Human-Computer Interface Advances for Modeling and Simulation (SIMCHI'05) (2005)
"Modeling and simulating work practice; Brahms: A multiagent modeling and simulation language for work system analysis and design" M. Sierhuis [Online]
Social science informatics (SWI) (2001)
Resources
Lecture 15
May 6 : Friday
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