Social Influence and the Generation of Joint Mental Attitudes in Multi-agent Systems
Social Influence and the Generation of Joint Mental Attitudes in Multi-agent Systems
This work examines the social structural and cognitive foundations of joint mental attitudes in complexly differentated multi-agent systems, and incorporates insights from a variety of disciplines, including mainstream Distributed Artificial Intelligence, sociology, administrative science, social psychology, and organisational perspectives. At the heart of this work lies the understanding of the on-going processes by which socially and cognitively differentiated agents come to be socially and cognitively integrated. Here we claim that such understanding rests on the consideration of the nature of the influence processes that affect socialisation intensity. To this end, we provide a logic-based computational model of social influence and we undertake a set of virtual experiments to investigate whether and to what extent this process, when it is played out in a system of negotiating agents, results in a modification of the agents' mental attitudes and impacts on negotiation performance.
Panzarasa, P.
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Jennings, N. R.
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2001
Panzarasa, P.
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Jennings, N. R.
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Panzarasa, P. and Jennings, N. R.
(2001)
Social Influence and the Generation of Joint Mental Attitudes in Multi-agent Systems.
4th Int. Eurosim Congress on Simulating Organisational Processes, Delft, The, Netherlands.
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This work examines the social structural and cognitive foundations of joint mental attitudes in complexly differentated multi-agent systems, and incorporates insights from a variety of disciplines, including mainstream Distributed Artificial Intelligence, sociology, administrative science, social psychology, and organisational perspectives. At the heart of this work lies the understanding of the on-going processes by which socially and cognitively differentiated agents come to be socially and cognitively integrated. Here we claim that such understanding rests on the consideration of the nature of the influence processes that affect socialisation intensity. To this end, we provide a logic-based computational model of social influence and we undertake a set of virtual experiments to investigate whether and to what extent this process, when it is played out in a system of negotiating agents, results in a modification of the agents' mental attitudes and impacts on negotiation performance.
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Published date: 2001
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4th Int. Eurosim Congress on Simulating Organisational Processes, Delft, The, Netherlands, 2001-01-01
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/255743
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P. Panzarasa
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N. R. Jennings
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