Observing the Impact of Science Education on Undesirable Behaviors of Students in the Agent-based Simulation Environment

Abstract

Agent-based modeling is a new computational model for social sciences. Computational models are formulated as computer programs which represent the processes that exist in the social world. When simulations of these computational models for social sciences are performed, it is possible to gather information about real systems' processes and predict future outcomes of the processes. The agent-based model includes a set of agents that represent real actors in a real system in the simulated environment. The simulated environment represents the environment in which the agents contain their resources and perform their actions. Agents interact with other agents and entities in the environment while they try to achieve their individual goals. In the present study, it is aimed to imitate the school environment in a simulation environment by using the Repast Simphony 2.4 simulation tool and observe the impact of science education on undesirable behaviors of students represented by agents in the simulation environment.  

Keywords

• Education,Agents,Simulation

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