Regulated agent-based social systems : first international workshop, RASTA 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002 : revised selected and invited papers

Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: First International Workshop, RASTA 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002, Revised Selected and Invited Papers
Author: Gabriela Lindemann, Daniel Moldt, Mario Paolucci
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-20923-2
DOI: 10.1007/b95469

Table of Contents:

• How Formal Logic Can Fail to Be Useful for Modelling or Designing MAS
• Communicational Patterns as Basis of Organizational Structures
• On How to Conduct Experimental Research with Self-Motivated Agents
• Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the “Complexity Effect” with Agent-Based Simulations
• The MAS-SOC Approach to Multi-agent Based Simulation
• Organisation Modelling for the Dynamics of Complex Biological Processes
• Communication without Agents? From Agent-Oriented to Communication-Oriented Modeling
• Modeling Product Awareness Rates and Market Shares
• Metanarratives and Believable Behavior of Autonomous Agents
• FORM – A Sociologically Founded Framework for Designing Self-Organization of Multiagent Systems
• Social Organization in a Software Agent Community with a Non-zero-Sum Game Interaction Model
• Emotion: Theoretical Investigations and Implications for Artificial Social Aggregates
• What Is a Normative Goal?
• Searching for a Soulmate – Searching for Tag-Similar Partners Evolves and Supports Specialization in Groups
• Norms and Their Role in a Model of Electronic Institution
• A Model of Normative Multi-agent Systems and Dynamic Relationships
• Integration of Generic Motivations in Social Hybrid Agents

Workshop co-located with 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), held in Bologna, Italy, July 2002
Also available electronically in LCNS/LNAI online
Includes bibliographical references and index