Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: First International Workshop, RASTA 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Bruce Edmonds (auth.), Gabriela Lindemann, Daniel Moldt, Mario Paolucci (eds.)9780824740382, 0824740386

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.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
How Formal Logic Can Fail to Be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS….Pages 1-15
Communicational Patterns as Basis of Organizational Structures….Pages 16-30
On How to Conduct Experimental Research with Self-Motivated Agents….Pages 31-47
Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the “Complexity Effect” with Agent-Based Simulations….Pages 48-69
The MAS-SOC Approach to Multi-agent Based Simulation….Pages 70-91
Organisation Modelling for the Dynamics of Complex Biological Processes….Pages 92-112
Communication without Agents? From Agent-Oriented to Communication-Oriented Modeling….Pages 113-133
Modeling Product Awareness Rates and Market Shares….Pages 134-144
Metanarratives and Believable Behavior of Autonomous Agents….Pages 145-155
FORM – A Sociologically Founded Framework for Designing Self-Organization of Multiagent Systems….Pages 156-175
Social Organization in a Software Agent Community with a Non-zero-Sum Game Interaction Model….Pages 176-188
Emotion: Theoretical Investigations and Implications for Artificial Social Aggregates….Pages 189-209
What Is a Normative Goal?….Pages 210-227
Searching for a Soulmate – Searching for Tag-Similar Partners Evolves and Supports Specialization in Groups….Pages 228-239
Norms and Their Role in a Model of Electronic Institution….Pages 240-258
A Model of Normative Multi-agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships….Pages 259-280
Integration of Generic Motivations in Social Hybrid Agents….Pages 281-300
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