Agents, Agency, and Simulation
Simon Goss
Air Operations Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Friday, 29th June 2001
0930 - 1100
SEECS lecture theatre 2
University of Melbourne Computer Science Department
SEECS Building
221 Bouverie Street, Carlton.
Abstract:
This talk reports an Agents and Agency workshop held at OZCHI 2000
and the agent streams at the recent Simulation Technology and Training
(SimTecT)
conference in Canberra.
Biosketch:
Simon Goss has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from La Trobe University (1984)
and a Grad Dip (KBS) from RMIT (1990). After postdoctoral work in ion
photodissociation
spectroscopy and intelligent instrumentation he spent two years in industry.
He joined the OR group in DSTO's Aircraft Systems Division in 1990.
He provided scientific leadership in the development of the models of human
decision makers in OR models of sociotechnical systems that underpins
the current DSTO modelling capability. He spent a year in 1997/98 as a
visiting scientist in the
Dept of Psychology at the University of Nottingham on a defence science
fellowship working in the
areas of knowledge management and knowledge elicitation. He was Head
Operations and
Performance Analysis 2000-2001. His research lies in the engineering of
agents systems and
agent representations of sociotechnical systems as a method for knowledge
management.