Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents
Papers from the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium
Goran P. Trajkovski and Samuel G. Collins, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-06-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / vii
Goran P. Trajkovski and Samuel G. Collins
Emergence as a Relational Property in Societies of Agents / 1
László Gulyás and George Kampis
The Interconnected Roles of Abstraction and Emergence in Artificial Societies / 8
Eric Baumer and Bill Tomlinson
Emergent Opinion Dynamics on Endogenous Networks / 17
László Gulyás and Elenna R. Dugundji
Language as Generative of Culture / 24
Deborah V. Duong
Coupling Human and Non-Human Agents / 31
Goran Trajkovski, Samuel Collins, James Braman, and Mark Goldberg
Demeter, Persephone, and the Search for Emergence in Agent-Based Models / 36
M. J. North, T. R. Howe, N. T. Collier, and J. R. Vos
On Curiosity in Intelligent Robotic Systems / 44
Georgi Stojanov and Andrea Kulakov
Mind-Prosthesis Metaphor for Design of Human-Computer Interfaces that Support Better Attention Management / 52
Claudia Roda, Georgi Stojanov, and Damien Clauzel
Neosymbiosis, How Humans and Software Benefit from Multi-Agent Cognitive Prosthesis / 60
Russ Vane and Doug Griffith
Robot without Organs? Assemblage, Agency and Networked Sociality in Human-Robot Interaction / 67
Samuel Collins and Goran Trajkovski
Propositional Logic Syntax Acquisition Using Induction and Self-Organization / 74
Josefina Sierra-Santibáñez
The Use of Collaborative Meta-Agents in Multi-Agent Systems / 82
Charles Dierbach
A Default-Logic Framework for Legal Reasoning in Multiagent Systems / 88
Vern R. Walker
A Project to Develop a Distributed, Multi-Agent Communications Architecture Using Message Feedback / 96
Richard Schilling
Different Experiences, Different Types of Emergence: A-life Sculpture Designer, Interactant, Observer / 104
Melanie Baljko and Nell Tenhaaf
Estimating the Near-Term Changes of an Organization with Simulations / 111
Il-Chul Moon and Kathleen M. Carley
Controllability of Population Characteristics of IPD Game Players on the Spatial Structure / 119
Masahiro Ono and Mitsuru Ishizuka
Fuzzy Mediation for Online Learning in Autonomous Agents / 127
Giovanni Vincenti and Goran Trajkovski
Training Coordination Proxy Agents Using Reinforcement Learning / 134
Myriam Abramson
Creating an Elastic Robotics Framework for Education and Research / 141
Giovanni Vincenti and Goran Trajkovski
Naming Games in Spatially-Embedded Random Networks / 148
Qiming Lu, G. Korniss, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Representing Clarification Dialogues in a Speaker/Hearer Model / 156
Yafa Al-Raheb
Qualitative versus Quantitative Notions of Speaker and Hearer Belief: Implementation and Theoretical Extensions / 164
Yafa Al-Raheb
Navigational Map Learning by Context Chaining and Abstraction / 172
Arshan Dabirsiaghi and Goran Trajkovski
PatternDiviner: A Pattern Recognition Tool / 180
Gregory Hill and Goran Trajkovski