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Bond Graph Models for Human Behavior

Mahamadi, Abdelrhman

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Electrical Engineering.
Modeling and reasoning about human behavior is an interesting problem for a variety of emerging applications across many domains. The particular interest of this dissertation is related to wellness management; specifically, the goal is to understand how to stimulate positive behaviors in individuals that lead to better management of their own wellness. The ultimate objective is to keep healthy people healthy. This research presents a Bond Graph approach for modeling human behavior as an alternative to the currently used fluid analogy models. The Bond Graph approach focuses on energy transfer and resolves potential ambiguities that could arise in the fluid analogy approach. The dissertation demonstrates that, the Bond Graph approach also offers a comprehensive modeling framework to model, analyze and reason about human behaviors. The approach is extended to design novel controllers for wellness interventions in humans. These controllers guide the selection of wellness actions and predict the expected behavior. Further, the work also includes new schemes to diagnose human behaviors and offer analysis for unexpected behavior to support the interventions and achieve target behaviors necessary to enable large-scale societal change.
Shivakumar Sastry, PhD (Advisor)
Nghi Tran, PhD (Committee Member)
Jin Kocsis, PhD (Committee Member)
William Schneider, PhD (Committee Member)
Victor Pinheiro, PhD (Committee Member)
158 p.

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  • Mahamadi, A. (2016). Bond Graph Models for Human Behavior [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1479485016074583

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mahamadi, Abdelrhman. Bond Graph Models for Human Behavior. 2016. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1479485016074583.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mahamadi, Abdelrhman. "Bond Graph Models for Human Behavior." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1479485016074583

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)