Emma Norling
For the benefit of the students who attended the course on agent-based simulation at EASSS'06, here is a copy of the slides.
In this document you will find:
You may also download my CV.
For play, see my personal web
page.
I am a research associate in the Centre for Policy Modelling at Manchester
Metropolitan University, working on the EPSRC Novel Approaches to Networks of Interacting Autonomes project.
I am currently making final revisions to my PhD thesis (at the
University of Melbourne), titled
BDI Agents for Modelling Human Behaviour, which some day
soon I will summarise here (probably after I have submitted it).
More detail to appear soon, but briefly...
My PhD has focused on individual aspects of cognition; I'm now
interested in pursuing interests in social aspects of behaviour. In
particular, I am interested in the relationship between micro- and
macro-level behaviours - in other words, the relationship between
individual behaviours and society behaviour - and the complex behaviours
that can arise at the macro level from simple behaviours at the micro
level.
Interestingly, there are macro level behaviours that we know
will occur, but we cannot necessarily predict their timing or
magnitude (such as stock market crashes). When these macro level
behaviours are undesirable, it is obviously desirable to avoid them when
possible. If we cannot predict their occurrance, perhaps an alternative
is to have an "early warning system," whereby we can detect the first
indications of the behaviour and take steps to avoid it happening. How
we would do this detection though is still an open question.
Will appear here at some stage!
- Emma Norling and Bruce Edmonds. Why it is Better to be SLAC than Smart. In 1st World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS'06), Kyoto, Japan, August, 2006.
- Emma Norling. Contrasting a System Dynamics Model and an Agent-Based Model of Food Web Evolution. In 7th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS'06), Japan, July 2006.
- Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling. Integrating Learning and Inference in Multi-Agent Systems Using Cognitive Context. In 7th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS'06), Japan, July 2006.
- Emma Norling. Folk
Psychology for Human Modelling: Extending the BDI Paradigm. In Proceedings
of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems New York, NY, July 2004.
- Emma Norling and Frank E. Ritter. A
Parameter Set to Support Psychologically Plausible Variability in
Agent-Based Human Modelling. In Proceedings of the Third
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems New York, NY, July 2004.
- Emma Norling and Liz Sonenberg. Creating
Interactive Characters with BDI Agents. In Australian Workshop
on Interactive Entertainment Sydney, Australia, February 2004
- David Hales, Bruce Edmonds, Emma Norling and Juliette Rouchier
(Eds.) Multi-Agent-Based
Simulation III 4th International Workshop, MABS 2003, Melbourne,
Australia, July 14th, 2003, Revised Papers (LNCS vol. 2927)
- Emma Norling. Capturing
the Quake Player: Using a BDI Agent to Model Human Behaviour In
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Tuomas Sandholm, Michael Wooldridge and Makoto
Yokoo, editors Proceedings of the Second International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Melbourne,
Australia, July 2003. pp 1080 - 1081
- Emma Norling and Liz Sonenberg. An
Approach to Evaluating Human Characteristics in Agents In Gabriela
Lindemann, Daniel Moldt, Mario Paolucci, Bin Yu, editors, Proceedings
of the International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Systems:
Theories and Applications (RASTA'02) Bologna, Italy, July 2002 pp
51 - 60
- Emma Norling and Frank E. Ritter. Embodying
the JACK Agent Architecture In Brooks, M., Corbett, D., and
Stumptner, M., editors, AI 2001: Advances in Artificial
Intelligence (LNCS vol. 2256) Adelaide, Australia, December 2001.
pp 368 - 377
- Emma Norling. Learning
to Notice: Adaptive Models of Human Operators In Doina Precup and
Peter Stone, editors, Agents-2001 Workshop on Learning Agents
Montreal, Canada, May 2001.
- Emma Norling, Liz Sonenberg and Ralph Rönnquist. Enhancing
Multi-Agent Based Simulation with Human-Like Decision Making Strategies
In Scott Moss and Paul Davidsson, editors, Multi-Agent-Based
Simulation, Second International Workshop, MABS 2000 Boston, MA, USA.
Revised Papers. (LNCS vol. 1979).
- Emma Norling. Flexible,
Reusable Agents for Modelling Human Operators Extended abstract and
presentation for Defence Human Factors SIG workshop
Melbourne, October 2000.
- Emma Norling and Clint Heinze. Naturalistic
Decision Making and Agent-Oriented Cognitive Modelling: A Preliminary
Study Extended abstract and presentation for 5th Conference of
the Australasian Cognitive Science Society Melbourne, February
2000.
- Tim Gabric, Nicholas Howden, Emma Norling, Gil Tidhar and
Elizabeth Sonenberg.
Agent-oriented design of a traffic flow control system. University
of Melbourne Department of Computer Science Technical Report 94/24,
November 1994.
Created: 02-Feb-1995
Last modified: Jan-2008