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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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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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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...