IS 290-3 : Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Organizations and Work Practice

Administrivia

Teaching Team 

Instructor Maarten Sierhuis

Office Hours: Friday 1:00pm-3:00pm 303B South Hall

TA Charis Kaskiris

Course Description

Course Information

School of Information Management and Systems INFOSYS 290-3

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

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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

What is Modeling? 

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

Assignment 1 assigned 

Due on February 4

Assignment details

Project Statement assigned 

Due on February 25

Assignment details

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

Agent Knowledge Modeling 

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

Assignment 1 due 

Assignment 2 assigned 

Due on February 25

Assignment details

February 11 : Friday

Modeling Work Practice 

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

A Theory of Activities 

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

Modeling Activities in Brahms 

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

Assignment 2 due 

Assignment 3 assigned 

Due on March 11

Assignment details

Project Statement due 

Project Abstract Models assigned 

Due on March 18

Assignment details

March 4 : Friday

Theory of Simulation 

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

Simulation in Brahms 

Assignment 3 due 

March 18 : Friday

Work Practice Observation 

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

Project Abstract Models due 

Project Presentations assigned 

Due on May 6

Assignment details

Project Writeup & Brahms Models assigned 

Due on May 6

Assignment details

March 25 : Friday : Spring Recess -- Cesar Chavez Day

No Class - Spring Break 

April 1 : Friday

Modeling in Brahms Composer 

April 8 : Friday

Project Lab 

April 15 : Friday

Project Lab 

April 22 : Friday

Modeling the MER Mission 

Resources

Lecture 14

April 29 : Friday

Observing the MER Mission 

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

Student Project Presentations 

Resources

Schedule

Project Presentations due 

Project Writeup & Brahms Models due 

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