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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Value of Knowledge: Joining Reward and Epistemic Certainty Optimisation for Anxiety-Sensitive Planning
Anxiety is one of the most basic emotional states and also the most common disorder. AI agents however are typically focused on maximising performance, concentrating on expected values and disregarding the deg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Context-Sensitive Deliberation
Truly realistic models for policy making require multiple aspects of life, realistic social behaviour and the ability to simulate millions of agents. Current state of the art Agent-based models only achieve tw...
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Agent-Based Social Simulation for Policy Making
In agent-based social simulations (ABSS), an artificial population of intelligent agents that imitate human behavior is used to investigate complex phenomena within social systems. This is particularly useful ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Threatening Pasts to Hopeful Futures. A Review of Agent-Based Models of Anxiety
Despite being understated, anxiety is a critical factor affecting all levels of society, directly impacting individual decisions and with well-identified ramifications on social play, social constructs, and co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Efficient Context-Sensitive Deliberation
We propose a context-sensitive deliberation framework where the decision context does not deliver an action straight away, but where rather the decision context and agent characteristics influence the type of ...
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Conclusions
We finish the book with a chapter in which we describe what we decided not to do or include in the ASSOCC framework. Where did we stop? And why did we stop? The temptation is to keep adding more and more aspec...
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Introduction
The introduction of this book sets the stage of performing social simulations in a crisis. The contents of the book are based on the experience of creating a large scale and complex social simulation for the Covi...
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Agile Social Simulations for Resilience
In previous chapters we have described the results and analysis of social simulations for crisis situations based on the experiences of the ASSOCC framework. Whereas we managed to build an implementation in a ...
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Social Simulations for Crises: From Models to Usable Implementations
Simulations created for crises naturally have two important goals: the simulation must both be sound and solid from a scientific standpoint, but also should be exploitable at very short notice by stakeholders ...
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Engineering Social Simulations for Crises
Building social simulations during crises for decision-support largely expands the concerns and partly differs from building classic academic simulations: stakeholders are under high pressure and need fast and...
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Social Simulations for Crises: From Theories to Implementation
This chapter describes how the general theories presented in the previous chapter have been used for the concrete ASSOCC software platform, which is used as the basis for all the scenarios described in Chaps. ...
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Deployment and Effects of an App for Tracking and Tracing Contacts During the COVID-19 Crisis
The general idea of tracking and tracing apps is that they track the contacts of users so that in case a user tests positive for COVID-19, all the other users that she has been in contact with get a warning si...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling the “Captain’s Nose”: Exploring the Shift Towards Autonomous Fishing with Social Simulation
With the rapid advances in the development of autonomous vehicles, the fishing industry might be faced in the near future with a shift to (partially or fully) autonomous fishing vessels or operations. Large-sc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling Culturally-Influenced Decisions
This article proposes a model of culturally influenced decision processes. In particular, cultures influence individual motivation, jointly with human nature and personality. The use of this model is then illu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Gender Differences: The Role of Nature, Nurture, Social Identity and Self-organization
This paper describes an agent-based model to investigate the origins of gender differences in social status. The agents’ basic behaviour is modelled according to Kemper’s sociological status-power theory. Diff...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agent-Based Evolving Societies
This paper describes a method to build artificial societies that are capable of expanding themselves from bottom-up in order to adapt to changes occurring in the environment. These changes trigger social issue...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Collaboration: Enriching Decisions with Abstract Preferences
Aspects of human societies provide a rich source of inspiration for influencing individual and social behaviors in order to achieve collaboration in a MAS. This article particularly investigates how human cult...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Simulating the Impact of National Culture on Organizations
Both culture and organizations are concepts which have been partially formalized. Only some of their aspects have been specified to build agent-based models. In this conceptual article, we identify and charact...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CIGA: A Middleware for Intelligent Agents in Virtual Environments
Building intelligent behavior in (educational) games and simulations can greatly benefit from the use of agent technology. Intelligent agents within a multi-agent system can be developed for controlling virtua...
