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Emergent behaviour in virtual agents
An investigation into causes of emergent behaviour 
Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94,
Grahamstown, Republic of South Africa |
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Publications
Three internationally reviewed papers have so far been published from this research. These are:
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[1] Colin Chibaya and Shaun Bangay. A probabilistic movement model for shortest path formation in virtual ant-like agents. In SAICSIT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries, pages 9-18, Fish River Sun, South Africa, October 2007. ACM Press, New York, NY, USA. [PDF] [BibTeX] |
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[2] Colin Chibaya and Shaun Bangay. Flock-inspired area coverage using wireless boid-like sensor agents. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSIM 2008), pages 144-149, Cambridge, UK, April 2008. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. [PDF] [BibTeX] |
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Research work in Higher
Education Teaching and Learning (Computer Skills) have also been
undertaken. Three publications and a possible journal article
are recorded to date. These are:
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[3] Colin Chibaya. A needs-driven approach for justifying the Computer Skills curriculum to Science, Extended Studies students. In Proceedings of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa. Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, Nov 2007. [PDF] |
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[4] Colin Chibaya. Computer skills for university entrants: An innovative curriculum for educationally disadvantaged candidates. In proceedings of the EDUVATE conference. University of Pretoria, June 2008. [PDF] |
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[5] Colin Chibaya. Computer skills for university entrants: A negotiated curriculum for educationally disadvantaged candidates. In Proceedings of the First Southern African Conference on the First Year Experiences. Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. September 2008. (To appear) [PDF] |
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