SBIR Phase II: Agent-Based Simulation and Modeling over the World Wide Web

SBIR 第二阶段：万维网上基于代理的仿真和建模

• 批准号: 9901678
• 负责人: Alexander Repenning
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: AGENTSHEETS INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9901678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Agent; Based

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the need for enhanced student learning through virtual experimentation and user-driven visualization. Recent research strongly indicates that simulation-based learning produces significantly better results for a wider range of students than traditional learning drills. Phase II objectives center on expanding classroom tested AgentSheets technology to large-scale student creation and sharing of interactive simulations and virtual worlds that combine intra-school student creations and World Wide Web resources. AgentSheets is an agent-based graphical spreadsheet environment that lets a wide range of users create SimCityTM-like interactive simulations, domain-oriented visual programming environments, games and cellular automata. Phase II research centers on professionalizing the AgentSheets Behavior Exchange developed during Phase I and introducing, testing, and maintaining new agent organization techniques. Phase II techniques for scaling up to larger school systems include Sales Agents. An important Phase II research component is the insertion of AgentSheets into the normal school curriculum through on-going classroom experience and student teacher training. By the end of Phase II, Agentsheets aims to have AgentSheets technology in regular use in a variety of real-world K-12 classroom environments. Commercial applications include simulations and modeling for education and research, games, programming tools, and virtual reality applications in architecture, medicine, and data analysis.

这个小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段项目满足了通过虚拟实验和用户驱动的可视化增强学生学习的需求。 最近的研究有力地表明，与传统的学习练习相比，基于模拟的学习为更广泛的学生带来了更好的结果。 第二阶段的目标集中于将经过课堂测试的 AgentSheets 技术扩展到大规模学生创作以及交互式模拟和虚拟世界的共享，其中结合了校内学生创作和万维网资源。 AgentSheets 是一个基于代理的图形电子表格环境，允许广泛的用户创建类似 SimCityTM 的交互式模拟、面向领域的可视化编程环境、游戏和元胞自动机。 第二阶段研究的重点是使第一阶段开发的 AgentSheets Behaviour Exchange 专业化，并引入、测试和维护新的代理组织技术。 用于扩展到更大的学校系统的第二阶段技术包括销售代理。 第二阶段研究的一个重要组成部分是通过持续的课堂体验和学生教师培训将 AgentSheets 插入到师范学校课程中。 到第二阶段结束时，Agentsheets 的目标是在各种现实的 K-12 教室环境中定期使用 AgentSheets 技术。 商业应用包括教育和研究的模拟和建模、游戏、编程工具以及建筑、医学和数据分析中的虚拟现实应用。