Often the selfish and strong are believed to be favored by natural selection, even though cooperative interactions thrive at all levels of organization in living systems. Recent em...
Jorge M. Pacheco, Tom Lenaerts, Francisco C. Santo...
Design patterns have been recently concerned in the multi-agent community for the design of systems with decentralized coordination. In this paper we present a design pattern for d...
The paper investigates human agent interactions in virtual environments like Second Life. As interactions in such environments are inherently social, the agent should be able to p...
Christian Pallay, Matthias Rehm, Ekaterina Kurdyuk...
Efficient design of social networking applications must take account of two guiding principles: the adaptive processes by which humans learn and spread new information, and the co...
Ali Saidi, Mahesh V. Tripunitara, Mojdeh Mohtashem...
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...