[agents] Tutorial on Cognitive Agents for Social Simulation @ AAMAS 2013

[Virginia Dignum - TBM]

Tutorial on Cognitive Agents for Social Simulation - collocated with AAMAS 2013, St. Paul, Minnesota
May 7 AM
http://ict1.tbm.tudelft.nl/cass2013/

register at: http://aamas2013.cs.umn.edu/node/41

Aims:

Simulation is increasingly being used to analyse and predict important economic and sociological phenomena. These simulations must take into account the complex interactions resulting from how one perceives other people (social cognition) and how one forms own opinions and beliefs (individual cognition). In capturing such dynamics it is essential to formalize both how agents perceive, learn about and restructure their social environments, as well as how they adapt their own attitudes and opinions as resulting from these interactions. That is, in order to fully capture the complexity of social interaction, richer cognitive behaviour is needed. In this way, social relations and individual differences can be understood in terms of the mental models and reasoning rules used by agents to form their decisions. In this tutorial, we will introduce different approaches to agent reasoning in social simulation, present an extensible cognitive architecture that includes personality, normative, cultural and emotional aspects, and discuss the conditions under which increased cognitive expressiveness is necessary.

Tutors: Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker