This book presents selected extended and reviewed versions of the papers accepted for the First International Workshop on Regulated Agent Systems: Theory and Applications, RASTA 2002, held in Bologna, Italy, in July 2002, as part of AAMAS 2002. In addition, several new papers on the workshop theme are included as well; these were submitted and reviewed in response to a further call for contributions.The construction of artificial agent societies deals with questions and problems that are already known from human societies. The 16 papers in this book establish an interdisciplinary community of social scientists and computer scientists devoting their research interests to exploiting social theories for the construction and regulation of multi-agent systems.
Author(s): Lindemann G., Paolucci M., Moldt D.
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 315
Table of Contents......Page 10
How Formal Logic Can Fail to Be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS......Page 12
Communicational Patterns as Basis of Organizational Structures......Page 27
On How to Conduct Experimental Research with Self-Motivated Agents......Page 42
Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the “Complexity Effect” with Agent-Based Simulations......Page 59
The MAS-SOC Approach to Multi-agent Based Simulation......Page 81
Organisation Modelling for the Dynamics of Complex Biological Processes......Page 103
Communication without Agents? From Agent-Oriented to Communication-Oriented Modeling......Page 124
Modeling Product Awareness Rates and Market Shares......Page 145
Metanarratives and Believable Behavior of Autonomous Agents......Page 156
FORM – A Sociologically Founded Framework for Designing Self-Organization of Multiagent Systems......Page 167
Social Organization in a Software Agent Community with a Non-zero-Sum Game Interaction Model......Page 187
Emotion: Theoretical Investigations and Implications for Artificial Social Aggregates......Page 200
What Is a Normative Goal? Towards Goal-Based Normative Agent Architectures......Page 221
Searching for a Soulmate – Searching for Tag-Similar Partners Evolves and Supports Specialization in Groups......Page 239
Norms and Their Role in a Model of Electronic Institution......Page 251
A Model of Normative Multi-agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships......Page 270
Integration of Generic Motivations in Social Hybrid Agents......Page 292
Author Index......Page 312
