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Act-RBot a cognitive social simulation tool by j.m.helmhout — last modified 2007-10-06 04:43

ACT-RBOT is a cognitive agent based social simulation toolkit (RBOT+MRS) / production system based on ACT-R (http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu) allows for modelling single actor cognitive experiments (RBOT) and multiple actors in a simulated (semiotic) world (RBOT + MRS). It is still in development and needs more adjustment for especially social simulations with large numbers of agents.

Book: The social cognitive actor by j.m.helmhout — last modified 2007-10-06 04:41

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a field of research that is concerned with the design, analysis and implementation of computational decision and simulation systems a collection of actors that work in conjunction with each other—to enhance one's understanding of how people cooperate and coordinate their actions to solve problems. Upon its foundation in the mid-nineties, MAS propagated in the fields of cognitive sciences and social sciences, and was adopted, more specically, in cognitive modelling and modelling of multi-actor interaction such as in social simulation (Conte & Castelfranchi, 1995b; Troitzsch, 1997). However, there has not been enough interaction between these two fields, and tools that try to connect both fields have not been sufficiently developed (Sun, 2006). The "social cognitive actor" will address this problem and make an attempt to bring both fields closer together. The aim of the book and the research is to design and implement a cognitive actor-based computational social simulation model based on a selection of social and cognitive theories in an attempt to satisfy the need for a complex cognitive-social model. The motivation for our research is twofold: (1) to reveal the constituents of MAS and the social cognitive actor (cf. Conte & Castelfranchi, 1995) based on theoretical considerations to (2) construct a simulation model that plausibly explains the interactive social behaviour of actors in a physical and socially situated environment (cf. Gilbert & Troitzsch, 1999). The aim is to relate the behaviour of individuals (micro level) that form a group or an organisation to the behaviour and performance of a group or organisation

Request for collaboration: Java developers/experts in Multi-Agent Applications/ Social Simulation by j.m.helmhout — last modified 2007-10-06 04:55

In general: a forum with questions about JAVA, Multi-Agent Systems and Social Simulation is welcome! Is it possible to start such a forum on this site?

The social cognitive actor by j.m.helmhout — last modified 2007-10-06 04:50