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LOCATION:CM107 (Mathematics)
SUMMARY:Dr Peter Matthews: Modelling the Engineering Design Decision Proce
 ss (IAS Public Lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Models of the engineering design process assume that the human
  designer is a rule-based agent and primarily focus on how they access and
  use technical knowledge for design. They are not able to represent the su
 bjectivity bought to the design process by human agents. This subjectivity
  is particularly important during the earlier, conceptual, stages of the d
 esign process. Agenda-setting research in this field is investigating the 
 potential of stochastic approaches for agent-based models to address this 
 challenge.However, these approaches are still experimental and little work
  has been done to learn how other disciplines have approached similar prob
 lems. By investigating alternative disciplinary approaches to agent-based 
 and stochastic decision modelling, this research will seek to provide a mo
 re robust foundation for modelling human behaviour within engineering desi
 gn.
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