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ACMACE
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Stable cooperation in changing environments
This paper addresses the issue of emergence of robust cooperation among self-interested agents interacting in N-player social dilemma games. A series of graphs are created each ex...
Colm O'Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Equilibria and Efficiency Loss in Games on Networks
Social networks are the substrate upon which we make and evaluate many of our daily decisions: our costs and benefits depend on whether--or how many of, or which of--our friends ar...
Joshua R. Davis, Zachary Goldman, Jacob Hilty, Eli...
AAMAS
2012
Springer
12 years 2 months ago
Using argumentation to model agent decision making in economic experiments
In this paper we demonstrate how a qualitative framework for decision making can be used to model scenarios from experimental economic studies and we show how our approach explains...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
FPLAY
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Using conflict theory to model complex societal interactions
Conflict theory can be used to explain the interactions between societies during times of turmoil and change (i.e. revolutions, strikes or everyday debates). Games have been produ...
Ben Medler, Joe Fitzgerald, Brian Magerko