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Multidisciplinary Education

Computational Modeling as the Core of a Multidisciplinary Curriculum

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This chapter discusses the design of a curriculum with main focus on human-oriented scientific knowledge and how this can be exploited to develop support for humans by means of advanced smart devices in the daily environment. The aim for this curriculum was to offer a study path for those students with exact talents but with an interest mainly in human processes and society. The curriculum was designed from a problem-oriented perspective in relation to societal problem areas. From human-oriented disciplines scientific knowledge for human processes in such problem areas was obtained. Computational modeling for such human processes plays a central role as an integrating factor in the curriculum. Elements from Ambient Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Informatics are included for design of smart support systems.

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Acknowledgments

The author is grateful to a large number of colleagues, who have, during discussions, deepened his insight into this area, and provided encouragement to go ahead with the challenging enterprise, among whom are Tibor Bosse, Frank van Harmelen, Mark Hoogendoorn, Johan Hoorn, Michel Klein, Peter-Paul van Maanen, Andre Spijkervet, Maarten van Steen, Gerrit van der Veer, Chris Verhoef, and Natalie van der Wal.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Behavioural Informatics Group, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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Treur, J. (2016). Multidisciplinary Education. In: Network-Oriented Modeling. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45213-5_17

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