PPT-CITS4403 Computational

Modelling Agent B ased Models Agents Agents represent entities in a system which are able to perform actions and respond to local information according to a set of rules Intelligent software agents are often designed around the . Abstraction. Abstraction. Goals. What is abstraction?. Is it teachable?. How to assess?. Abstraction has two facets. “Removing detail to simplify and focus attention” [p38]. “identifying the common core or essence” [p38]. Ovidiu P. â. rvu. , PhD student. Department of . Computer Science. Supervisors: Professors . David Gilbert. and . Nigel Saunders. Why?. 2. Predicted. behaviour. Simulations. Natural. biosystem. Computational. Modelling. Fractals. Fractals. A fractal is a mathematical set that typically displays self-similar . patterns. Fractals . may be exactly the same at every scale, . or they . may be nearly the same at different scales. Class Overview. web site: www.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/CS6604. Origins. Term first used by Seymour . Papert. (1996) . [Snow 2012]. “. In . both . cases the computer used as a tool effectively . leads . to a solution, but in neither does the . Ovidiu P. â. rvu. , PhD student. Department of . Computer Science. Supervisors: Professors . David Gilbert. and . Nigel Saunders. Why?. 2. Predicted. behaviour. Simulations. Natural. biosystem. Computational. NRC Report on Nature/Scope of CT. web site: www.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/CS6604. NRC Report. Sponsored by National Research Council. First of two reports. Not intended to produce or reflect a consensus among participants. Allen Lee. Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the . Environment. https://. cbie.asu.edu. Computational Social Science. Wicked collective action problems. Innovation -> Problems -> . Innovation. District Wide Implementation in SD43. Patricia Gartland, CEO and Superintendent . Stephen Whiffin, Director of Instruction. School District No. 43 (Coquitlam). It’s Computational Thinking – not Coding…. Zur. 2011A. Sunny Yellow . Flower. . Picture . by . Sharee . Basinger. , publicdomainpictures.net. About me.... 1988. 1991. 1996. 1996 . 2001 . 2003-2004. 2005 . Survey. Please answer the survey at:. Authors: Kyu . Han . Koh et. al.. Presented . by : . Ali Anwar. ABOUT ME. B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan. M.Sc. Computer Engineering. , University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, . web site: www.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/CS6604. NRC Report on Pedagogy for CT. Second of two workshops. Focused on K12 Education. Identified different approaches to the teaching of computational thinking. What do these approaches and ideas mean for the university level?. Jim . Demmel. EECS & Math Departments. www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmel. 20 Jan 2009. 4 Big Events. Establishment of a new graduate program in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). “. Multicore. 1. CMPS 3130/6130 Computational Geometry. Spring 2015. Planar Subdivisions and Point Location. Carola. . Wenk. Based on:. Computational Geometry: Algorithms and . Applications. and . David Mount’s lecture notes. Thinking Decomposition Pattern Recognition Abstraction Algorithms COMPUTATIONAL THINKING Computational Thinking refers to the processes/approaches which are used to formulate a problem in a manner s