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AAAI
2000
14 years 10 months ago
Non-Deterministic Social Laws
The paper generalizes the notion of a social law, the foundation of the theory of artificial social systems developed for coordinating Multi-Agent Systems. In an artificial social...
Michael H. Coen
CSCW
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
GECCO
2005
Springer
166views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 3 months ago
The emulation of social institutions as a method of coevolution
This paper offers a novel approach to coevolution based on the sociological theory of symbolic interactionism. It provides a multi-agent computational model along with experimenta...
Deborah Vakas Duong, John J. Grefenstette
ATAL
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Learning to cooperate in multi-agent social dilemmas
In many Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), agents (even if selfinterested) need to cooperate in order to maximize their own utilities. Most of the multi-agent learning algorithms focus on...
Jose Enrique Munoz de Cote, Alessandro Lazaric, Ma...
AOSE
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Tool-Supported Development with Tropos: The Conference Management System Case Study
Abstract. The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process and supporting tools for developing complex, distributed systems. The ...
Mirko Morandini, Duy Cu Nguyen, Anna Perini, Alber...