A programming language which is optimized for modelling multi-agent interaction within articulated social structures such as organizations is described with several examples of its functionality. The… (More)
In this paper, we focus on the problem of maintaining significant levels of cooperation in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks of selfish adaptive peers. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains high… (More)
Endowing agents with "social rationality" [10, 12, 11] can aid overall efficiency in tasks where cooperation is beneficial to system level performance. However it is difficult to maintain this… (More)
This paper proposes a generic methodology and architecture for developing a novel conversational intelligent tutoring system (CITS) called Oscar that leads a tutoring conversation and dynamically… (More)
It is argued that complexity has only a limited use as a paradigm against reductionist approaches and that it has a much richer potential as a comparable property. What can complexity be usefully… (More)
A published simulation model (Riolo et al. 2001) was replicated in two independent implementations so that the results as well as the conceptual design align. This double replication allowed the… (More)
A new approach is suggested under the slogan “Keep it Descriptive Stupid” (KIDS) that encapsulates a trend in increasingly descriptive agentbased social simulation. The KIDS approach entails one… (More)
The observance of unpredictable episodes of clustered volatility in some data series has led to the development of models of social processes that will give rise to such clustered volatility. Such… (More)