Description of the Training Course

Cormas training course

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Methodological issues

2003, 17-21 March

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS),

Social Sciences and

Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM)

Trainer

Prof. S. Moss, Manchester Metropolitan University

Report on the training is available

Organizers

Dr. N. Gajaseni( University of Chulalongkorn Bangkok, Biology Department,
Faculty of Science)
F. Bousquet (CIRAD-IRRI)

Course Objectives

The objective here is to discuss on several methodological issues. Emphasis will be put on the usefulness of models, and on the process of validation of models. The use of MAS is compared to other more standard economic approaches.

Training

Day	8h30-10h	10h30-12h	13h30-15h	15h30-17h
Monday 17	Opening Ceremony	Overview	Lecture : Bad and Good Models	Group work : bad and good models
Tuesday 18	Validation: statistical signatures and qualitative data	Group work: How good or bad models would be improved by extending validation	Validation: E-commerce model, and water demand model	Group work: Which validation for applied MAS models?
Wednesday 19	Verification: the role of abstraction, canonical models	Group work: Theories and models	Free discussions
Thursday 20	Abstraction: Grids and tags, genetic programming	Group work: Design a MAS based on grids, tags or GPs.	Modelling approaches: procedural and declarative	Demonstration: programming in SDML
Friday 21	Group work : perspectives for applied MAS models	Presentations - General discussion	Closing ceremony