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SimEd: Simulating Education as a Multi Agent System

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Elizabeth Sklar,

Min San Tan CoAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '04: Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3

Pages 998 - 1005

Published: 19 July 2004 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes our efforts in creating SimEd, a simulation of the education system. The longterm aim of this work is to be able to model the types of interactions and interplays that occur between students, teachers and administrators, resulting in a toolkit and a methodology that will allow policy makers on various levels to experiment with their decisions, examining effects over time and across levels. Here, we outline our reasoning for selecting the multi agent system paradigm and the particular techniques chosen. We present details of two components within the SimEd toolkit and show results of experimental simulations executed with each. In constructing these tools, we have begun to identify special attributes of the education environment that set it aside from more typical agent-based application areas, such as e-commerce. We highlight these aspects and discuss current and future work extending agent techniques to accommodate these types of environments.

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Tang YParsons SSklar EDurfee EYokoo MHuhns MShehory O(2007)An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperityProceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems10.1145/1329125.1329439(1-3)Online publication date: 14-May-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1329125.1329439
Tang YParsons SSklar E(2006)Modeling human education dataProceedings of the 2006 international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation VII10.5555/1782774.1782780(41-56)Online publication date: 8-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1782774.1782780
Tang YParsons SSklar ENakashima HWellman MWeiss GStone P(2006)Agent-based modeling of human education dataProceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems10.1145/1160633.1160654(129-131)Online publication date: 8-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1160633.1160654
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Index Terms

SimEd: Simulating Education as a Multi Agent System
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
      1. Simulation environments

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Tang YParsons SSklar EDurfee EYokoo MHuhns MShehory O(2007)An agent-based model that relates investment in education to economic prosperityProceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems10.1145/1329125.1329439(1-3)Online publication date: 14-May-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1329125.1329439
Tang YParsons SSklar E(2006)Modeling human education dataProceedings of the 2006 international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation VII10.5555/1782774.1782780(41-56)Online publication date: 8-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1782774.1782780
Tang YParsons SSklar ENakashima HWellman MWeiss GStone P(2006)Agent-based modeling of human education dataProceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems10.1145/1160633.1160654(129-131)Online publication date: 8-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1160633.1160654
Sklar EDavies MPechoucek MSteiner DThompson S(2005)Multiagent simulation of learning environmentsProceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems10.1145/1082473.1082617(953-959)Online publication date: 25-Jul-2005
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Sklar EParsons S(2004)Towards the Application of Argumentation-Based Dialogues for EducationProceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 310.5555/1018411.1018967(1420-1421)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2004
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Sklar EParsons SDavies M(2004)When is it okay to lie? a simple model of contradiction in agent-based dialoguesProceedings of the First international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/978-3-540-32261-0_17(251-261)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2004
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