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Open AccessHealing the next generation: an adaptive agent model for the effects of parental narcissism
Parents play an important role in the mental development of a child. In our previous work, we addressed how a narcissistic parent influences a child (online/offline) when (s)he is happy and admires the child. ...
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Open AccessVerification of temporal-causal network models by mathematical analysis
Usually dynamic properties of models can be analysed by conducting simulation experiments. But sometimes, as a kind of prediction properties can also be found by calculations in a mathematical manner, without ...
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Open AccessComputational cognitive modelling of action awareness: prior and retrospective
This paper presents a computational cognitive model for action awareness focusing on action preparation and performance by considering its cognitive effects and affects from both prior and retrospective form r...
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Open AccessTowards virtual training of emotion regulation
For professionals in military and law enforcement domains, learning to regulate one’s emotions under threatening circumstances is crucial. The STRESS project envisions a virtual reality-based system to enable ...
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Open AccessModelling collective decision making in groups and crowds: Integrating social contagion and interacting emotions, beliefs and intentions
Collective decision making involves on the one hand individual mental states such as beliefs, emotions and intentions, and on the other hand interaction with others with possibly different mental states. Achie...
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Open AccessAn ambient agent architecture exploiting automated cognitive analysis
In this paper an agent-based ambient agent architecture is presented based on monitoring human’s interaction with his or her environment and performing cognitive analysis of the causes of observed or predicted...
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Open AccessAn intelligent agent model with awareness of workflow progress
To support human functioning, ambient intelligent agents require knowledge about the tasks executed by the human. This knowledge includes design-time information like: (i) the goal of a task and (ii) the alter...
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Open AccessA virtual human agent model with behaviour based on feeling exhaustion
A computational agent model for monitoring and control of a virtual human agent’s resources and exhaustion is presented. It models a physically grounded intelligent decision making process within the agent mod...
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Open AccessA generic architecture for redesign of organizations triggered by changing environmental circumstances
Artificial Intelligence has contributed (formal) design models and software support tools to application areas such as architecture, engineering and software design. This paper explores the effectiveness of ap...
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Open AccessCombining rational and biological factors in virtual agent decision making
To enhance believability of virtual agents, this paper presents an agent-based modelling approach for decision making, which integrates rational reasoning based on means-end analysis with personal psychologica...
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Open AccessOn the reciprocal interaction between believing and feeling: an adaptive agent modelling perspective
An agent’s beliefs usually depend on informational or cognitive factors such as observation or received communication or reasoning, but also affective factors may play a role. In this paper, by adopting neurol...
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Open AccessA specification language for organisational performance indicators
A specification language for performance indicators and their relations and requirements is presented and illustrated for a case study in logistics. The language can be used in different forms, varying from in...
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Open AccessSpecification, analysis and simulation of the dynamics within an organisation
In this paper a modelling approach to the dynamics within a multi-agent organisation is presented. A declarative, executable specification language for dynamics within an organisation is proposed as a basis fo...
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Open AccessAn agent architecture for multi-attribute negotiation using incomplete preference information
A component-based generic agent architecture for multi-attribute (integrative) negotiation is introduced and its application is described in a prototype system for negotiation about cars, developed in cooperat...
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Open AccessA framework for formal modeling and analysis of organizations
A new, formal, role-based, framework for modeling and analyzing both real world and artificial organizations is introduced. It exploits static and dynamic properties of the organizational model and includes th...